Why Use Angular JS?

AngularJS is a structural framework for dynamic web apps. It lets you use HTML as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. AngularJS’s data binding and dependency injection eliminate much of the code you would otherwise have to write.

The main Angular advantages over its closest rival, KnockoutJS is that there is no need to use observable functions; Angular analyses the page DOM and builds the bindings based on the Angular-specific element attributes. That requires less writing, the code is cleaner, easier to understand and less error prone.

Seeing the growing popularity of Angular JS, we give you 7 reasons why you should also be using Angular JS.

1. Super User Experience

Apart from the main technical reasons stated above, Angularjs is awesome in making the app more visually appealing for the audience. Visualforce pages are created to make the UI terrific and accomplish the objective of making the application aesthetically more appealing. To make the task simple, prebuilt libraries, components and modules are present in the framework that speeds the development time and alongside gives the app a visual bonus as well.

2. Full UI Support

To describe an application’s UI, Angular takes into use HTML which is a declarative programming language. HTML creates a less complicated and more intuitive user interface that is solid unlike other interfaces written in JavaScript. Also, HTML allows you to declare which controllers should be employed for specific UI element so that you can focus more on the look and feel of your app’s UI. Just mention what you want and Angular will take the dependencies in control.

3. Simple Testing

There are certain parts of the application present in Angularjs modules that can be easily be manipulated. With the help of module separation, you are comforted by loading only necessary services and thus smoothly conduct automatic testing. Further, if you stick to ‘one file, one module’ pattern, you don’t have to worry about keeping module loading order to memory. For expert support in building scalable applications, partnering with an angularjs development company Softteco can streamline your development process.

4. Improved Flexibility

Just like directives, filters are standalone functions that distill the data before it reaches the view. These differ from your app and deal in activities like implementing pagination, formatting decimal places on a number and reversing a text string. The filters can be utilized in controllers, services, templates and even directives. These enhance flexibility tremendously and are so resourceful that you can tackle a HTML table without any JavaScript.

5. Backed By Google

As Angularjs has a strong backing of Google, the developers are relieved to be working with a solid code base that will offer complete support to the project. Being an exception to the other common JavaScript application frameworks, which are created by independent hobbyists, Angular is the result of brilliant work by genius Google engineers Adam Abrons and Misko Hevery. This is one of the major reasons why developers use Angular over other JavaScript frameworks like Ember.JS and Knockout.JS.

6. Less Coding

Coders need to spend less time in coding process as AngularJS requires less coding. Without a doubt it is a great deal for developers.

A glance where it asks for fewer codes:

• AngularJS developers community do not require to write their own pipeline

• Its data model is simple and you do not need any getter/setter functions

• Its data-binding feature grants developers to stop giving data manually into the view

• AngularJS is defined using HTML for view to make it more specific

• As directives are separate from app code, other teams can write it without any integration issue.

• Filters allow developer to manipulate the data on the view level without changing any of your controllers

• AngularJS has a built-in dependency injection subsystem useful for developers for creating applications in an easier style including testing process as well.

7. AngularJS Handles Dependencies

Dependency injection is something Angular does quite well. I’ll admit I was skeptical we even needed something like that on the client, but I was used to the key scenario being the dynamic loading of modules. Oh, wait – what did you say? That’s right, with libraries like RequireJS you can dynamically load JavaScript if and when you need it. Where dependency injection really shines, however, is two scenarios: testing and Single Page Applications.

For testing, Angular allows you to divide your app into logical modules that can have dependencies on each other but are initialized separately. This lets you take a very tactical approach to your tests by bringing in only the modules you are interested in. Then, because dependencies are injected, you can take an existing service like Angular’s $HTTP service and swap it out with the $httpBackend mock for testing. This enables true unit testing that doesn’t rely on services to be stood up or browser UI to render, while also embracing the ability to create end-to-end tests as well.

The Famous Node.js Apps

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime that runs on top of Google’s open-source JavaScript engine called V8. Pairing JavaScript’s naturally event-driven, asynchronous coding style with non-blocking I/O libraries makes Node.js fast, lightweight, and efficient.

It’s built to handle asynchronous I/O from the ground up and is a good match to a lot of common web- and network-development problems.  In addition to fast JavaScript execution, the real magic behind Node.js is called the Event Loop. To scale to large volumes of clients, all I/O intensive operations in Node.js are performed asynchronously.

In addition to it’s innate capabilities, Node.js has a thriving open source community which has produced many excellent modules to add additional capabilities to Node.js applications. One of the most famous is  Socket.io, a module to manage persistent connections between client and server, enabling the server to push real-time updates to clients. Socket.io abstracts the technology used to maintain these connections away from the developer, automatically using the best technology available for a particular client.

It is the pivotal tool for many big giants, and has helped them build a huge business.

Let us have at a few web apps that used Node.js

Paypal

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders. PayPal is one of the world’s largest Internet payment companies.

Linkedin

LinkedIn is a business- and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their resumes. As of 2015, most of the company’s revenue came from selling access to information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals.

Yahoo

Yahoo! is a web services provider, wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc. and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.

Mozilla

Mozilla is a free software community created in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, with only minor exceptions.

Netflix

Netflix is an American entertainment company founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California. It specializes in  providing video streaming online and DVD by mail. In 2013, Netflix expanded into film and television, as well as online distribution.

Uber

Uber Technologies Inc. is an American company headquartered in San Francisco, operating in 633 cities worldwide. It develops, markets and operates the Uber car transportation and food delivery mobile apps. Uber drivers use their own cars, although drivers can rent a car to drive with Uber.

Groupon

Groupon is an American worldwide online marketplace connecting subscribers with local merchants by offering activities, travel, goods and services in more than 28 countries. By the end of March 2015, Groupon served more than 500 cities worldwide, nearly 48.1 million active customers and featured more than 425,000 active deals globally.

GoDaddy

GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company. As of May 2017, GoDaddy has served approximately 17 million customers and had over 6000 employees worldwide. The company is known for its advertising.

Ebay

Ebay is a multinational e-commerce corporation, facilitating online consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales. It is headquartered in California. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble.

Walmart

Walmart is the world’s largest company by revenue, approximately $480 billion according to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2016, as well as the largest private employer in the world with 2.3 million employees. It is a family-owned business, as the company is controlled by the Walton family.

Medium

Medium is an online platform developed by Twitter co-founder Evan William, and was launched in August 2012. It is owned by  Medium Corporation. The platform is an example of social, having a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications.

Node.js allows you to build effective apps, in a turnaround time that is quick and real!

Your app could be the next big one!

Get in touch with us for a kickass Node.js App!

Photoshop hacks to help you design better

Without question, Photoshop is one of the most preferred and most favorite image editing software for graphic designers, digital painters and photographers alike. With each revision, Adobe adds more power to the program.

In this article we will be looking at 5 tips and tricks you can use in Photoshop.

1. Surfacing the new features

One fast way of getting up to speed with the latest changes is to go to Window>Workspace>New in Photoshop CS6. This closes all the panels and replaces them with the above section with a panel showing all the new features.

In addition, if you now return to the Window menu, you will see various features highlighted as in the screenshot below:

2. Making bitmaps bigger without blurring

In Photoshop CC a new feature allows you to increase the size of bitmaps with negligible quality loss. In the past, one could increase the size of an image, but it would blur and artifacts would become visible.

To activate it, go to Image>Image Size. In the screen shot above, note the Re-sample option at the bottom of the dialog box. This gives you many options for controlling the quality of the image as you increase the size.

3. Blending Options

If you right click on a layer in the layers toolbar, and then click blending options this will bring you to a whole vast array of effects that will keep you busy for hours. Use these options very sparingly.

4. Removing People from Your Photos

Take at least a dozen photos in your ideal spot, the Too Many Adapters blog recommends. Then head to Photoshop and go to File > Scripts > Statistics. Select “Median” for the stack mode and check “Attempt to Automatically Align Source Images.” Finally, click the “Browse…” button to select your set of photos and hit OK.

Photoshop will process the images to preserve the static background and remove everything that changes between the shots . There might be some cleanup to do in Photoshop but this might be the quickest and easiest way to get postcard-quality photos of your last trip.

After the Trick!

5. Matching Skin Tones

A sunburn or a blush can disrupt a portrait, especially if there is a contrasting pale person nearby. Photoshop has a tool to correct that: “Match Color” offers control over skin tones. Open your image and use the Quick Selection tool to roughly select the red skin areas.

You can hold down the Alt/Option key and subtract areas from the selection. Click on Select → Modify → Feather and enter a value of about 15 pixels. Use the Control/Command + J shortcut to copy the selection to a new layer.

Using the same technique, copy the non-reddened skin to a new layer. In the next step, you’ll have to differentiate between the source layer and the layer to edit, so rename these two layers meaningfully; all it takes is a double-click on the layer name. You could use the naming scheme shown here and call them “Beautiful skin” and “Reddened skin.”

Activate the layer with the red skin, and select Image → Adjustments → Match Color from the menu. For “Source,” select the current document, and for “Layer,” select the one with the beautiful skin. Control the effect using the “Luminance” and “Color Intensity” sliders in the Image Options area. Once you confirm, you can control the effect’s strength with the Opacity slider.

We will be coming up with a whole new world of tricks from out bag on Photoshop and other such tools that a designer must perfect.

Stay tuned for more!

The Ultimate Leader – MSD

Mahendra Singh Dhoni or MS Dhoni is one of the most successful sportsperson and an iconic captain of the Indian team. Many people believe that  he thrives 0n mere luck, good fortune and great timing but actually a clear pattern of skills and qualities can be observed in him.

However, entrepreneurs must be thinking how would it help them to flourish? Since, an individual can be inspired by any success story and what else can be better served than that of the great leader on the field.

Therefore, following are some lessons that a tech entrepreneur should learn for  better growth of business.

1. Dealing with failures

Failures can lower the morale of any person. It is an art: how to handle failure. After a chain of losses, MS Dhoni came back with a bang with the victory of World Cup 2011. All it requires is a great character with a healthy attitude. Entrepreneurs must be focused on the work rather than crying over the spilt milk.

2. Leading with example

Being a leader, it is important that you lead from the front. MS Dhoni has been an inspiration to not only the people outside the dressing room but also people inside the dressing room. Dhoni has crossed all boundaries of getting out of his comfort zone. He constantly ushes his abilities everyday.

He has been the best at keeping wickets and with the bat. He was the first Indian to be awarded as the player of the year by ICC. A ticket collector to an Indian captain, the story has surely been inspiring.

3. Absorbing Pressure

Dhoni might have ninety-nine problems but absorbing pressure isn’t one of them. In fact, there isn’t probably a man in the cricket world who can absorb pressure like Dhoni does. Dhoni has always been surrounded by pressure on and off the field, may be one of the prime reasons for his white beards at 30.

To reflect the pressure through performance and not through anguish is what Dhoni has mastered over the years. As a leader, you have to keep yourself calm when your team needs you the most. If  the leader breaks down, you can’t expect the team to sail through. No doubt he is called ‘Captain Cool’.

4. Delegation of work

A leader must delegate the work to lessen the burden. As Dhoni did, all entrepreneurs should give others a chance. If you are not capable of taking any decision in a certain matter, let it be and pass it on to the able one. A leader is not the best player necessarily, but he brings out the best from every single team member.

5. Trust

MS Dhoni shows great trust on his players. So being an entrepreneur, you must display confidence on your team members without any fear of failure. Your act of showing faith will improve the morale of the team as well as smoothens the functioning at the workplace. The employees will be blessed with a sense of responsibility.

6. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of the team

In a match presentation against Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup, Dhoni gave a detailed story of how he knew that Jasprit Bumrah was rather “weak” in the fielding department or that Hardik Pandya isn’t the best person to bowl a yorker. The fact that his decisions are spot on most of the times is because he knows how to use the right resources at the right time.

The ability to have the knowledge of the skills of each and every individual in the team gives an edge to any leader to use the right resources at the right time. That’s again a  sign of a great leader.

7. Believing in instincts and taking risks

A true leader is one who is never shy of taking risks. Taking risks has always been a part of the game for this man, be it the finals of the 2011 world cup where he promoted himself up the order or the Joginder Sharma over back in 2007. Though many of his decisions have come under the hammer but most of the times he has been spot on with his moves.

His ability to take risks and more importantly, backing them has fetched brighter results for the team. Moreover, the ability to believe in himself is what makes him one of the great minds on the field. Being a leader you have to analyse where you went wrong and have to take risks in order to achieve bigger results.

Be the leader everyone wants to follow!

The Game Of Tech Startups

“In the game of startups, you either innovate or you die”

The year long wait for Game of Thrones is finally over. The most globally watched series premiered its 7th season yesterday and the wait has definitely killed us. ( Or some of the characters at least!)

We know Winter Is Finally Here.

We all know John Snow is a Targaryen, & Sansa finally re-unites with him. Cersei is bitchier than ever before and Tyrion, we all know he will be more badass this time around.

What about the dragons?

Well, you will have to wait and watch it for yourself.

As of now, we asked ourselves this red wedding sort of a  question.

If all characters from Game of Thrones applied to a startup, whom would you hire?

And the answer will provoke the North.

Tyrion Lannister as Co-Founder

Well, no surprises there.

If you were looking for a knowledgeable, forthright leader executing your ideas, Tyrion as a co-founder is nothing less than perfect. He knows to work like a log and shed any inhibitions while doing so. You will find a great advisor, a loyal friend and an extremely calculated risk taker in him.

“That’s what I do. I drink and I know things”

He is famous for drinking wine and eloquent dialogues. Don’t be surprised if your company goes viral with just his epic public speeches. Also, avoid being a Joffrey and you are good to go.

Varys as Advisor

“Any fool with a bit of luck can find himself born into power. But earning it for yourself, that takes work.”

He is the greatest advisors of all times. Considering the dirty games of Westeros, probably better than Dumbledore.

Admit it. However diminished, it was only when Varys escaped with Tyrion, you finally lost faith in the future of King’s Landing. It was like a nail in the coffin because we know with his network of birds, spiders and whisperers, his word is the ultimate deal breaker. If this is not enough, his conviction to preserve the realm irrespective of who is in power, makes him the foremost candidate for this role. Having him by your side will open a door of opportunities considering he is outspoken when needed, encouraging in the right way and projects a future based on knowledge and data.

Daenerys Targaryen as CEO

“Freedom means making your own choices”

Perfect addition to your board of directors, Dany is CEO material through and through. Having built an empire from nothing but a couple of Dothrakis, she has leadership experience like no other.

Listening to advice, caring for her team, taking nothing and no one for granted and knowing exactly what works in the best interest of her people, she ticks off all the checkboxes and creates some too. For example, she will be great at promoting and retaining the right people thus, building a great team balanced with knowledge, skill and loyalty.

If this was not enough, holding her dragons captive for the sake of her people put her on a different pedestal altogether. Forgiving yet ruthless, calm yet stormy, caring yet merciless, Daenerys is a perfect blend of character and class. Also, with her babies by her side, she can easily burn your competition into flames in no time.

Jaqen H’ghar as Developer

“Valar Codaeris. All men must code”

You barely know him. His name most probably might be an alias. Yet, his impenetrable aura makes you quietly respect and secretly revere him. Jaqen is highly skilled and extremely mysterious. With an ability to don lot of faces, this Faceless Man of Braavos is a perfect addition to your technical team.

He craftily crypted the passage to The House of Black and White and religiously followed the predefined syntaxes of Faceless Men. He built situational algorithms for his trainees and silently debugged the code of conduct of the world in an attempt to bring order to his world. He considers it his duty to serve through innovation.

Petyr Baelish as Marketing Manager/ Business Development

“Chaos isn’t a pit, chaos is a ladder”

Nakedly ambitious, cunningly resourceful and popular among his circles, he can easily pass off as a marketing manager or in business development. Creating favorable situations (killing Joffrey), running on a budget and finding loopholes to exploit, he is definitely the man you should be hiring for this role.

Being the popular man he is, resources and news come easy to him. Studying his character, will bring out the epiphany in age old adages like ‘make hay while the sun shines’ or ‘strike when the iron is hot’.

Tywin Lannister as Chief Operations Officer

“Do you really think the crown gives you power?”

If he were to send you a resume, it would probably begin with that.

And if you think this was impressive, wait to read his Experiences section.

Served as-

Hand of the King

Lord of House Lannister

Lord Paramount of the Westerlands

Lord of Casterly Rock

Warden of the West

Winning the Battle of the Blackwater, making Joffrey toe the line, befriending the wealthy Tyrells, conspiring the Red Wedding, thus, bringing order in King’s Landing was not easy; Tywin ensured control of this certified impossible task. If your sales, marketing, technical and directors need synchronization and smooth , it would be better if you expedite his hiring. Your Chief Operations Officer will be famous for being an untiring strategist.

Valar Dohaeris!

GoodWorkLabs CEO opens up about his interests

Recently, ET Panache had a friendly conversation with Vishwas Mudagal, CEO, GoodWorkLabs. They featured his interest in music and movies to name a few.

Read the entire article on the Economic Times here.

GoodWorkLabs is now hiring Marketing Interns

What makes YOU get out of bed in the morning? Breakfast? Your favourite YouTuber’s video? Your future? Damn, that last one really #woke you up, didn’t it?

And now that you’re awake—

Announcing an exciting opportunity for college students and recent graduates: GoodWork Labs is now accepting applications for a marketing internship!

We want YOU:

Our ideal intern does not have to be well-versed in the world of marketing but someone who is:

• Self-motivated and able to work independently to meet deadlines
• Passionate about Marketing
• Able to multi-task and deliver results promptly (kind of like that time you completed your assignment while watching your favourite TV show)
• Willing to become an integral part of a small, tight-knit team

Here’s the 411,

Contribute to our platforms: We will mentor you in learning the principles of SEO along with guidance in designing & launching ads and conducting extensive research.

Impress us with your social media skills: Help us deliver engaging, relevant content via social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn.

Build engaging Content: Create original content to be used in online and print marketing projects.

(If you have some background in producing videos or any video content, you get some brownie points!)

The best part? Fidget spinners are allowed at work 🙂

Hit us up with your resume at marketing@goodworklabs.com and we’ll be in touch soon!

The Art Of Hiring

Often, managers think that if they want to speed up decision-making, they must also be prepared to make worse decisions. For example, a recruiting decision could be made more quickly but without getting as much internal input or spending as much time ensuring the candidate “fits” with the organization. They think they must trade off making a fast decision to ensure they make the right decision.

HR teams feel this fast/right conundrum in many parts of their work, but there are eight in particular where they can speed-up decisions without getting them wrong.

Following are a few tips from out talented HT team to hire the best talent and ways to retain them for a longer period of time.

1. Compete for talent more intelligently: Firms increasingly need highly specialized roles and skills regardless of the industry they operate in. But many HR teams lack the right data, or the right ability to use it, to find such people and hire them.They must first take the time to understand and anticipate what types of skills they will need in the future; this will pay dividends later. They must also understand how to use talent analytics cost-effectively to find the people best placed to fill these roles. And, finally, they should concentrate on non-traditional labor markets they may have overlooked (in an adjacent industry, say).
2. Streamline the recruiting process: The average time it takes for a recruiting team to fill a position has risen substantially in the past five years. Most HR functions have a big opportunity to speed up hiring without compromising quality.More complex hiring requirements have complicated recruiter workloads, recruiting processes, and hiring decisions. As a result, the average time to fill an open position is at 63 business days – 21 more days than it was five years ago. This can mean less savvy firms lose talent to competitors and waste an average of $8.5 million per 1,000 vacancies in lost productivity and additional recruiting work.Many firms try to combat this by giving recruiters more: more resources, more policies, more tools, and more information. But it rarely works. Instead, they should look to streamline the recruiting process itself. Recruiting teams should take three steps:
   • Realign resources for recruitment to focus on speeding up hiring for current and future posts.
   • Identify and remove hidden process inefficiencies that slow down hiring.
   • Slim down the amount of information and stakeholders that influence hiring decisions, and learn how to manage it better.
3. Don’t ask employees to “own” their careers, partner with them instead: Two-thirds of companies will face an internal skills shortage in the next three to five years, and only 30% of employees are satisfied with the future career opportunities at their organizations. This makes it imperative that HR teams engage and retain the right people to staff the roles the company needs in the future.To do this, 90% of heads of HR say they want to move away from a promotion-based career culture to a “growth-based” one where employees move laterally to acquire new skills that then put them in a position to take on a better paid, more responsible role. Most firms try to do this by encouraging employees to “own” their careers, and providing sample career paths, access to job boards, and career conversations. But this can often mean that employees don’t develop the skills the firm needs, which produces an internal skills shortage and/or the firm losing employees it wanted to keep.Instead, firms should encourage “career partnerships” that are of value to both the company and employees. Employees should be shown how the skills the firm wants them to develop will make them more employable. The HR team should market the right position (full-time or project-based) to the right employees rather than using passive channels like internal job boards, and then make it easy for employees to shift between teams. This keeps employees engaged and provides managers with the right skills at the right time.

We will share similar tips in the coming days as we completely understand the hiring process. This makes us one of the best options for contract staffing and staff augmentation options.