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Programmers, this is how you break out of your comfort zone

Many programmers have a curious personality deep inside. However, daily life is not always like that. Instead of looking for new things we can end up repeating routines even when there is a need to leap outside our comfort zone. Read Stefan's tips on breaking out of your comfort zone.

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Make an impact with white space, create emotion with typography

Making sure that the basics are in order is more important than visual fireworks and eye candy. Read about the importance of hierarchy, white space and typography when designing a pleasant digital transaction experience. Should you choose Baskerville or Fira for the font? It depends on the context.

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Design thinking - this is how you avoid the 5 most typical pitfalls of design thinking

At its best, Design Thinking can be exploited in resolving business challenges at many levels. At its worst, superficial application results only in wasted resources. Learn to avoid the pitfalls and harness the full potential of this method.

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There is nothing to fear from agile software development

With agile software development, developers can genuinely have an impact on what the final output will be. But it requires courage and a wish to live through continuous change.

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Automotive integrates high technologies into cars - Tomorrow’s driving experience is being created in Oulu

The digitalisation of cars is increasing rapidly, and the team of over twenty Automotive experts at our Oulu site keeps growing. Their excellence will be in the limelight this year in cars that are coming onto consumer markets.

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Going to production with Sitecore on Azure PaaS

Masi is sharing our lessons learned from real world Sitecore on Azure PaaS projects along with working examples on how to build CI/CD pipelines in VSTS using modern DevOps techniques. What does it really take to run Sitecore on Azure PaaS?

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Designing for kids is not just a play thing

Cyber bullying, inappropriate content, privacy issues, hate speech, and so on… Internet can be a harsh place for anyone, so how can design help develop safer and more supportive digital environments for children?

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Our CTO's doctoral dissertation is all about self-organizing expertise in the world of Artificial Intelligence

Erkka Niemi, who will defend his doctoral dissertation in the field of Information Systems Science at the Aalto University School of Business, examined the impact of technology on strategic management.

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Hedge - Building a new cloud deployment tool with service abstraction

At the start of my Siili career as an apprentice, our group was introduced to a mysterious tool: Hedge. The main goal of Hedge is platform agnosticism - wich improves code re-usability and limits the risk of being locked with specific cloud provider.

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I’m only human after all – how to understand yourself and the others

A lot of consulting work is about knowing your area of expertise and using it to benefit the customer, but the other half is understanding people and how you could help them work better. We had an interactive workshop at Craftcon_ about understanding people and interpersonal relationships.

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Creating craftsmanship culture

It is time for CraftCon_ - But what is it? Have you ever heard about it before? Well, it is abbreviated from craftsmanship conference, but what is this craftsmanship then? Let’s first dig into that.

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Moving forward into an automated future – UiPath Forward London 2017 Summit

Robotic Process Automation is a journey into the unknown, but like all great movements it is backed by skilled, dedicated and above all committed people. The UiPath Forward Summit was a perfect reminder of the belief and resolution behind this drive into an automated tomorrow.

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