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40 Characteristics of a Successful Product Manager

If you currently work as a product manager, are thinking about a job in product management, or work with product managers, one thing is certain: you will hear a different definition of what a ‘product manager’ is (or does) from each person you ask. Is the product manager the “CEO of the product” (which is a broad and misunderstood definition), the person who manages the product (a much narrower view of product management), or both?

Streamlining email: Read and process emails with backend automation

Businesses frequently use emails to maintain their core functions. They are the main form of communication with both inside and external entities. An email inbox can become hard to manage when it comes to large organizations that receive thousands of emails monthly. Introducing automation to the email processing system can help save time and guarantee that nothing is overlooked.

How to generate Excel files with low-code

Excel is widely used in different businesses and is a crucial element in the analysis and distribution of data. When generating reports, merging data from multiple sources or creating a document for a particular purpose, a low-code platform can provide consistent outcomes with less effort than the traditional coding approach. With Linx, for instance, you can craft an Excel file from any data source, e-mail it to a designated user, and then archive it for future reference.

How to automate sending custom emails

Making sure that notifications, reports, and other messages are promptly delivered to the right people is a frequent – and important – job for IT teams. Even if there are 100s of emails that must be dispatched with slight differences in the content or added reports, it is sensible to automate the procedure of creating and sending out these emails. Linx can simplify this process, speed up the creation process, and make it easier to host this kind of solution.

A Guide to Rails View Helpers

Views in Rails don't do much besides showcasing what we want. Sure, they might render slightly different results depending on who's watching (an admin or a logged-in user has a different experience than a guest user, for example), but they don't do much processing on what they're given. Or at least they shouldn't. Often though, Rails projects wind up with a lot of logic in their views. In this post, we'll explore how to use Rails helpers to keep our views clean and readable.

5 Node.js Tools to Learn in 2023

The Node ecosystem comes with a wide variety of tools that have continued to evolve over the years. These tools are delivered via NPM packages and run in the command line, making them accessible to any developer (you do not need a fancy IDE to get the job done). In this take, we will explore 5 Node tools to learn this year: TypeScript, ES modules, ESLint, the ESLint SpellCheck plugin, and Mocha. These all run via the command line and can help boost your productivity when working on Node projects.

How to Handle ActiveRecord:: RecordNotFound in Ruby

ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound in Ruby is an error that occurs when an application is unable to find a record in the database that corresponds to the provided parameters. ActiveRecord is a Ruby gem that is used to interact with databases in a Rails application. It provides an object-relational mapping (ORM) layer that allows us to work with database records as if they were Ruby objects.