SWEHQ

🤝 | Meet our team #2

Meet Zemek, our colleague who has an eye for detail and lately plays mainly with Vue.js and Node.js.

🤝 | Meet our team #1

We often write about technical curiosities that we come across during our work, or about our practices in terms of overall application development.
Today, let's take it from a different side and find out who is really behind all those lines of code!

First, get to know Jan Walter, CEO of SWEHQ.

Architects design houses, doctors make people healthier, yachting teachers make people yachtsmen.

We write . Our primary product is the set of instructions for machines that determine their behavior, often in interaction with humans.

Why is it important to realize this if a client wants a ?

Vendor lock-in is typically a situation when the client cannot deal freely with the software because:
❌ he does not own a license to the source code,
❌ he does not have technical erudition and is afraid to operate with software by himself,
❌ he does not have the source code and is afraid to ask the provider for it,
❌ he does not have access to his primary data and every manipulation with it is charged heavily,
❌ the software uses non-standard technology, which is difficult to abandon.

I have seen it many times. Finding out after many years of usage. Then the client is supplier’s hostage and:
☠️ the development is at a standstill – it does not receive what it needs,
☠️ pays an inadequate price even for routine technical changes or pure operation,
☠️ change of the supplier means a complete rewrite of the app,
☠️ there is a risk of data loss.

At SWEHQ:
✅ we always license the source code to clients and
✅ write in such a way that any new person – team member or competitor – can understand it,
✅ we minimize the number of used technologies and
✅ choose those that are prospective.

There is no greater joy 🧡 than seeing a colleague from the industry who quickly understands how things work and a software that has been running for many years. In fact, there is, but only one. Happy user.

Don’t buy apps without a source code, just like you don’t buy houses without bricks!

We believe that browsers are the operating systems of the future. They offer a platform that helps solving both simple and complex software problems with UI effectively. Most of the productivity software people use is web-based, having services online has become quite a standard some years ago. The browser ecosystem has many pros as working across operating systems and platforms on variable devices. It also provides a vast amount of libraries for fast and efficient development and freedom for custom graphic design. Web apps can also be extended to installable mobile apps.

SWEHQ will gladly help reasonable projects with the introduction to the browser (online) world.

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🤝 | Credo point #2: Code readability.
Every programmer has certainly experienced being involved in a project running for months or years. It is often non-trivial and causes a lot of frustration without the ability to bring about a quick change. At SWEHQ, we focus on source code readability. So that a new programmer can join at any time, so that we understand things ourselves in a few weeks. Standard tools are reviews from other programmers and automated tests.
Code quality is a key investment in software development with payback in weeks and is essential for its long-term sustainability.

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🤝 | Bod našeho kréda #2: Čitelnost kódu
Každý programátor jistě zažil zapojení do měsíce či roky běžícího projektu. Často je to netriviální a působí to mnoho frustrace bez možnosti přinést rychlou změnu. Ve SWEHQ se soustředíme na čitelnost zdrojového kódu. Aby se kdykoli mohl zapojit nový programátor, abychom věci sami za pár týdnů rozuměli. Standardní nástroje jsou reviews od ostatních programátorů a automatizované testy.
Kvalita kódu je klíčová investice ve vývoji software s návratností v řádu týdnů a nezbytná pro jeho dlouhodobou udržitelnost.