December 14, 2015
Comparing Flux with Redux Working with React, we compared flux with redux, our team decided to use redux. The devtools redux offers was icing on the cake. Diving in, we wanted a central location for all of our API calls. The API middleware would need to handle dispatching a pre-request, successful request, and failures. To handle this, we set our actions in the following format Actions import DT_API_CALL from '../middleware/api'; const USER_REQUEST = 'USER_REQUEST'; const USER_SUCCESS = 'USER_SUCCESS'; export function fetchUser(userId) { return { [DT_API_CALL]: { types: [USER_REQUEST, USER_SUCCESS], endpoint: '/user/${userId}', method: 'get' } }; } export function saveUser(user) { return { [DT_API_CALL]: { types: [USER_REQUEST, USER_SUCCESS], endpoint: '/user/update', method: 'put', data: user } }; } Configure middleware Configuring our middleware looks something like: export default store => next => action => { const apiCall = action[DT_API_CALL]; if (typeof apiCall…
December 21, 2015
The Tradition of Advisory Boards There's a long standing tradition of HR tech companies creating advisory boards to help them guide their company. This has been especially visible over the last few months, and I've had several clients and contacts asking about our board, how we use them, and what value they add. The answer is really simple. We don't have one. It's not that we haven't thought about it or discussed it. We did. We had long discussions over it, and as a team made the decision that there wasn't value to us adding a board. There are good reasons to have an advisory board, I think. Here are a few of them, and our perspective. Product Direction The obvious (or at least the most often mentioned) benefit of an advisory board is, well, advice. Getting input from thought…
December 16, 2015
Phil Noelting & Phil Hendrickson of Qwalify - The Makers of Talent Dojo We were joined in Las Vegas by Phil Noelting, CEO, and Phil Hendrickson, Chief Talent Strategist at Qwalify. This interview is filled with some great information about being a start-up - how to grow the right way and how to bring people into your organization. "TalentDojo is all about furthering relationships and reinventing the the traditional notion of what a talent community is” Click play above to listen to this great interview - 2 for the price of 1 - As the Phils share their thoughts about talent communities today, what do they look like and how can we do it better. “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is today.” Phil Noelting on Twitter. Phil Hendrickson on Twitter.…
