Pascal Helfenstein

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5 ways to find bugs

Over the years I have fixed thousands of bugs and collected strategies to find them quickly. This blogpost teaches you some of them, it's focused on programming, but most of the ā€¦

A self-service solution without reinventing the wheel

How to create a personalised self-service portal without reimplementing common functionality? This was the challenge we faced while creating a self-service solution.

WebSpeech APIs

Ever since I saw the film Iron Man I wanted to build a voice controlled personal assistant, similar to Tony Starkā€™s Jarvis. Thanks to the WebSpeech APIs provided by Chrome you can now ā€¦

Webnesday St. Gallen

Before I started working for Liip I did my apprenticeship in St. Gallen. It was not until I started working in ZĆ¼rich, that I discovered, companies here liked sharing knowledge with ā€¦

Resizing images with Javascript

Is image resizing still a server task? Usually when you are implementing an image upload, you have to decide whether you use GD or ImageMagic. On a Javascript heavy project, I was ā€¦

My day at Liip

As you might know Liip is hiring. If not checkout liip.ch/jobs and see if you find something for you there. ProTipā„¢: Bring beer if you get invited. It might be interesting for you, our ā€¦

Supercharge your mobile development with BDD in the Cloud

BDD stands for Behavior Driven Development and the idea is to test your application from end to end, like you would in a functional test but with tests that are written in human ā€¦

Niwea Application Development ā€“ First experiences

Since quite a while now we're developing a NIWEA based app for one of our clients. If you don't know what NIWEA is you can read our earlier blogpost. It was a very interesting new ā€¦
Pascal Helfenstein
Senior Software Engineer