Quenk Log: The Blog of Quenk Technologies

New YouTube Channel (Code With Mih Nah!)

For a while now I've been meaning to do some live coding sessions. I'm still not ready just yet, but, I figured I could at least record when I work on our open

consulting

2020 Note From The Managing Director Of Quenk Technologies

Happy 2020! It's official; the new millennium is no longer a teenager. Soon it will be packing its things and telling its parents; "he really does love me". All jokes aside, a few

engineering

Easier Search Support In Web Apps With The Search Filters DSL (ft. MongoDB)

The @quenk/search-filters module was created to ease the burden of integrating search in Web applications. Search is a common use case that starts off simple but can quickly get out of hand

engineering

Software Engineering Internship Comes To A Close (Looking Forward To 2020)

On the 18th of September 2019, we put out a call for interns for our first internship. We asked for 3 candidates, we received 19 responses. We selected 6, by the end of

consulting

Keep Your Data Clean, Practice Some Data Hygiene

What's the difference between data and information? Information is a collection of useful facts that we can get value from, directly or indirectly. Data on the other hand (for the purposes of this

engineering

Become A Software Engineer (October 2019 Internship)

Applications for Quenk Technologies' part-time, virtual internship program are now open! We are looking for up to 3 motivated individuals who are passionate about computer software, its architecture and how it is used

engineering

Using GNU Make To Build A TypeScript Project

In the last Make related article, we learned that GNU Make is really a build tool, not a task runner. In this article, we will look at putting GNU Make to use in

consulting

The Reason You Should Invest In Software

Your reason for investing in software is not to save money on operational costs or to boost sales. Those outcomes are indeed desirable, however they are only side-effects and are dependent on other factors that tend to be beyond software's control.

engineering

GNU Make: A Build Tool Not A Task Runner

A task runner is best suited for executing one off "tasks" or "jobs" upon a user's request. For example, npm scripts or the chron daemon. A build tool on the other hand, should facilitate the compilation of a project and its dependencies in an orderly deterministic fashion.

Platform

Introducing The Quenk Platform

As I wrote in my New Year's note, QT has been around for six years now. To date, we have completed a total of 4 major software development projects, averaging about a year

consulting

New Year's Note From The Managing Director Of Quenk Technologies Limited

Note: The following post was originally distributed to QT clients and partners. Happy New Year! From the management and staff of Quenk Technologies Limited; we hope last year gave you what you needed

Moving On

The Quenk Blog has migrated to blog.quenk.com! New articles and content to be posted soon so stay tuned!