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A .NET Programmer’s Guide to CancellationToken
By Davit Asryan
Microsoft created a standardized cancellation implementation that has far-reaching capabilities beyond its original use case.
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Agile Scaling: SAFe Best Practices for Scrum Masters
By Ammar Raafat Mohamed Bashandy
This article is part of Toptal’s Agile scaling series, designed to guide project managers in their team expansion efforts. In this second installment, Toptal Scrum expert Ammar Raafat discusses how Scrum masters moving into the role of release train engineer can help their teams thrive.
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5 Agile Scaling Frameworks Compared: Which One Should You Use?
By Kamil Imański
Toptal’s Agile scaling series is designed to guide project managers in their team expansion efforts. In this first installment, project manager Kamil Imański breaks down popular scaling frameworks to help you make the best choice.
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Business Is Booming: A Guide to E-commerce UI/UX Design for Older Consumers
By Laurence Brothers
As the world’s population ages, retailers hoping to attract and retain customers will have to tailor their e-commerce interfaces to appeal to savvy older consumers.
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Sharpen Your Skills With Fun Online Games for Designers
By Susanne Aubert
Online design games are perfect for practicing tricky tools and techniques, boosting core UI/UX skills, and keeping pace with a rapidly evolving industry.
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.NET on Linux: Simpler Than It Seems
By Zablon Dawit
Discover Microsoft .NET's cross-platform development capabilities by building a Dockerized ASP.NET and Entity Framework application on Linux.
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Name Your Price: 4 Counterintuitive Pricing Strategy Tips
By Kalil Gebrim Rodrigues
Rising inflation means it’s crucial for managers to pay close attention to pricing. Toptal finance expert Kalil Rodrigues shares four outside-the-box tips for optimizing your pricing strategy.
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Kinder Tools: How to Improve Enterprise UX Design for Mental Health
By Danae Botha
Enterprise tools can be fraught with features and interactions that exacerbate mental health disorders. These UX solutions improve accessibility and help everyone have a better workday.
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The 10 Most Common JavaScript Issues Developers Face
By Ryan J. Peterson
At first, JavaScript may seem quite simple. Yet the language is significantly more nuanced, powerful, and complex than one would initially be led to believe. Many of JavaScript's subtleties lead to a number of common problems—10 of which we discuss here—that keep code from behaving as intended. It's important to be aware of and avoid these pitfalls in one's quest to become a master JavaScript developer.
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