Fed up with trashy tv? Or maybe your eyes are tired from looking at a screen all day? Here's The Hitchhiker's Guide to Podcasts! This list is great for both developers and designers or if you are just interested in tech stuff.DevelopmentShopTalkA…
After spending a summer as an intern in Telia Norway, I very quickly understood the impact of the company on the telecommunication industry in Scandinavia and the great things the company is set to achieve. For this reason, I hoped very much to get a…
What defines a good work environment for developers? Is it that sharing and learning are encouraged? Or that there is time for pair programming? Full autonomous teams? Kickoffs and beer brewing? Or maybe ping-pong tables and a barista?There are…
We devote the last day of each month purely to learning - every techie is highly encouraged and expected to spend the time becoming better at her job by practicing her skill and learning new things. We read books, watch talks, go through on-line…
Telia Norway's IT division had summer interns for the first time this summer. 10 students got placed into some of our teams and worked alongside us from mid-june to the end of august. For the students it was an opportunity to learn how it's like to…
Full Stack Feast is an internal mini conference in Telia Norway, that aims to bring together developers, designers, product owners and anyone else involved in software engineering in our company. To accomplish this, we want to cover a broad range of…
This is a short summery about the engineering workshop in UiT university.MotivationWe, at Telia, are encouraged to share our knowledge and contribute to the community. One of the main contributions we believe in is to help students find their passion…
Our code is a mess. And that is the way it should be.No matter how good code we write today, it will need to be fixed tomorrow. Our understanding of the business domain evolves, the business processes and needs themselves evolve, the technical tools…
Alex has introduced us to the idea of front-end first design: You start by creating the front-end (browser) code. As you discover data or API calls that you need, you mock them. When the UI stabilizes, you use the mocked APIs and data to create the…
Our UX designer and interaction specialist – a wonderful guy – has shocked us today by telling us that we (the developers) are moving too fast. He needs more time to do proper user experience and interface design – talk to real users, collect…
Replacing legacy systems typically starts with an excitement, proceeds through months or years of work, and results in a failure. The incremental strangling of the old shop.netcom.no is a very different story and the approach is rightfully called…
A part of the series Nettbutikk Team's Experiences and ExperimentsWe are starting a new blog series tracking the experiences and (process) experiments of the team behind nettbutikk.netcom.no. This is the best product development process and team I…
A part of the series Nettbutikk Team's Experiences and ExperimentsThe Nettbutikk team likes to challenge all established truths. Jakob Lind has come with with an excellent question: do we need standups? Do we all need to stand in front of our Kanban…
A part of the series Nettbutikk Team's Experiences and ExperimentsHandling dependencies is one of important challenges in any software project - and especially in the fast-moving JavaScript world. Our Nettbutikk team just had a heated discussion…
A few thursdays ago we arranged our very first hack day at Telia. The event was attended by 15 people, forming 5 different teams. Snacks and drinks were on the house. Pizza was served to the hungry late stayers. But most importantly: During the day…