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The 11 Habits of Highly Effective Developers

Listening to various podcasts during my morning routine, I stumbled across the Syntax podcast by Wes Bos and Scott Tolinksi – both JS developers, and both owners of separate web development course platforms. What made me listen to their 11 habits to build up your career as a developer was the obvious parallel to The ...

Join us at CEBIT 2018

We are happy to announce our participation in this years’ CEBIT Expo! Come join us for a cup of coffee and a technology discussion at stand Е16/2 in Hall 16 of the Expo. We await you together with other Data Analytics and Software Generalist vendors. We would be happy to share insights from projects we’ve ...

How and why we’re adding Machine Learning to our services

Code Runners has always been a data-driven company, and our customers have always been data-aware. Not always did they, however, extract, distill and employ data insights to reach business decisions – and that’s precisely what we helped them streamline. Initially, analytics were done hand-in-hand by statisticians, data scientists and developers – but machine learning has ...

Our CTO shares machine learning examples at ISTA 2017

Our CTO, Dimiter Shalvardjiev, presented our progress in the Machine Learning domain during ISTA2017 last week. The topic of his talk: “Making Sense of Big Data through machine learning and statistical modelling”. Dimiter shared general Machine Learning concepts, loads of examples by companies like Google and Alibaba, but also our subject matter expertise – mainly in ...

We’re in the news!

Picture a regular Monday morning, arriving at the office, ready to tackle the day ahead. Then the newspaper we’re subscribed for comes in. It’s Computerworld, a weekly newspaper covering the most important news from the IT industry in the region. A colleague starts browsing through the pages, pauses, lifts his head and shows me screenshots ...

Recognition by the Annual Outsourcing Conference

Last weekend the Bulgarian Outsourcing Association and the Bulgarian Association of Software Companies organized and co-hosted the Annual Outsourcing Conference.   As part of the conference, the Innovation & Technology leaders for the last year were also recognized by an international jury. It is with great honour and pride that we’d like to share we got recognition not ...

How Pair Programming helps deliver better projects

Among the many other perks of the agile methodology comes the idea of pair programming. I’m using “perks” in this case in the most positive way possible — after all, our team at Code Runners has been following the agile way for some time now. The Definition The idea behind pair programming is, simply put, that two developers ...

Quantifying good code

“Good code” is a very undefined term and a very difficult one to explain or quantify. On top of that, good code depends on the underlying language, on the type of application – or even the processor architecture. All of these characteristics define “good code” more as following best practices rather than a fixed rulebook ...

Why we’ve opted out of Docker

As a boutique development studio, we are naturally driven towards innovation and the adoption of all latest and greatest technology. Innovation allows us to supply our customers with great value at affordable cost – and grants us sufficient time to volunteer for various good causes. Docker, being the flagship of innovation in modern-day DevOps, certainly landed ...

MVP: where Rails shines bright

When we started our development studio back in 2012 (ah, glorious days!), there were a lot of considerations to make. Our local landscape was – and still is – full of outsourcing companies. Everyone around here seems to code in PHP or Java, but few understand the product application of whatever they are building. As with any fresh ...