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DEVELOPMENT Agile Python Jira Markdown Productivity Development Automating Agile Stand-Up Ceremonies with Python Scripts A blog post detailing how to automate Agile stand-up ceremonies with Python scripts.

INSIGHTS Culture Productivity Sonus Vox A comparison of different microphone categories.

DEVELOPMENT Culture Productivity Development A Perfect Gift Learn how to modify a mechanical keyboard BLOG PDF Digital Signatures Productivity PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures, and Why Your Business Needs Them An article that describes what PDF advanced electronic signatures are and how they let businesses implement the lifecycle of a modern digitally signed PDF document. CUSTOMER STORIES Case Study Annotations PDF Viewer Productivity Case Study: How One Financial Services Company Uses PSPDFKit to Enhance Productivity On the Go How a financial services company uses PSPDFKit to enhance productivity. DEVELOPMENT Testing Productivity Insights Development How We Make Our CI Fast Principles we apply to improve our CI efficiency. INSIGHTS Tips Productivity Productivity Tips When Switching from a PC to a Mac Improving productivity when switching from a PC to a Mac.

DEVELOPMENT Testing Productivity Insights Development A Case for Fast CI How slow build times lower your team’s productivity, and how to change this. DEVELOPMENT Productivity Tips git Development How to Handle Stacked Pull Requests on GitHub This blog post describes how to deal with dependent pull requests on GitHub, as well as the git concepts you need to master to understand them. DEVELOPMENT Android Productivity git Development Refactoring Git Branches with Interactive Rebase and Autosquash in Android Studio A primer on using Git's interactive rebase feature, and how to use it within Android Studio to housekeep commits. DEVELOPMENT Productivity Testing Insights Development Managing CI Pipelines with Terraform Learn about Terraform and how we use it to manage our Buildkite pipelines. DEVELOPMENT Flutter Productivity git Insights Development How We Maintain Our Public Flutter Project Using a Private Monorepo We describe the process taken to speed up the maintenance, development, and release cycle of our public Flutter project. DEVELOPMENT iOS Productivity How To Development Automating Mac Catalyst Distribution with fastlane We recently automated PDF Viewer for Mac distribution via fastlane. Here’s how you can do the same for your Mac Catalyst app. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity While We Work: How We Stay Productive Some people at PSPDFKit share their tips for being productive.

INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Insights Where We Work A blog post showing a glimpse of where our people work. DEVELOPMENT Tips Productivity Development Faster Compilation with Ccache 4.0 Ccache is a build cache to achieve faster compilation. With the 4.0 release, it now supports Modules, which makes it possible to accelerate projects that mix Objective-C and Swift. DEVELOPMENT Tips Productivity git Development A Better Way to Git Log to Understand Changes in a Big Codebase How git log information may not be enough when developers need to understand changes in a codebase that has evolved over several years. INSIGHTS Culture Productivity Sponsoring CocoaPods PSPDFKit is sponsoring the costs of hosting the CocoaPods CND. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips Productivity Development Think First, Code Later A case study on how we design features and APIs for PSPDFKit for Android. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Productivity Development Best C++ IDEs of 2024 Discover the best C++ IDEs and text editors of 2024. Learn the pros and cons of each tool, from Visual Studio to Vim, and find the right fit for your development needs. TUTORIALS Elixir How To Server Productivity Batch Processing PDF Files with Elixir Using PSPDFKit Server See how Elixir and PSPDFKit Server are a perfect match for processing a large number of PDF files. DEVELOPMENT Android Kotlin Tips Productivity Testing Development How to Reduce Flakiness in Automated UI Testing on Android This blog post discusses tips and best practices on how to reduce flakiness in automated UI testing on Android. INSIGHTS Remote Work Productivity Useful Mac Apps for Remote Workers Reduce the friction of working remotely! INSIGHTS Remote Work Productivity Communication Is Key in a Remote World Working remotely does not mean working in isolation! Maintaining effective communication means increased productivity and happier teammates. INSIGHTS Remote Work Productivity Tips 9 Tips to Help You Work Effectively from Home This article describes some strategies first-time remote workers should follow to get the most out of working from home. This is part two of four of our remote work series. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Tips Remote Work: How to Overcome Common Struggles of Working from Home This article describes some struggles first-time remote workers may face and provides some strategies to help overcome them. This is part one of four of our remote work series. DEVELOPMENT C++ Tips Productivity Development Effective Header Management in C++ How we can reduce build times and clean up our header dependencies with effective header management. DEVELOPMENT Tips Productivity git Development Moving a Git Repository into Its Submodule How we improved our Git repository setup by moving our PDF Viewer for iOS repository into our PSPDFKit repository.

DEVELOPMENT Culture Productivity Insights Development WWDC for First-Timers, 2019 Edition Here's how to get the most out of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Insights Remote Work: What I've Learned from a Decade as a Remote Software Engineer Sharing a few tips and things I've learned from my 10 years working as a remote software engineer. DEVELOPMENT Productivity Tips Development How Spaced Repetition Helps You Learn New Things We present spaced repetition as a learning technique that can help you be more efficient at work. PRODUCTS Productivity PDF Making Notes on a PDF Document This post highlights the tools and features within a PDF that help with marking and making notes in a document. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Eight Hours: Sleep Can't concentrate during the day? Sleep may be the key to ensuring you do. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Eight Hours: Recreation Focus on making the most of life outside your work in an effort to improve your working life. INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity Eight Hours: Work Do we spend our working hours efficiently, or can we optimize the way we work? INSIGHTS Culture Remote Work Productivity A Modern Approach to Work: Pursuing Mindfulness, Purpose, and Efficiency Your work life extends beyond the eight hours a day you spend working. This series explores the division of time over 24 hours and how the way we spend that time can affect our workday and vice versa.

DEVELOPMENT Productivity Development Time Management A discussion of how managing time by incorporating productivity techniques, making lists, planning your days, and finding ways to utilize downtime can help with your workflow. DEVELOPMENT Productivity Development Using clang-tidy and integrating it in Jenkins The benefits of using clang-tidy and how to get started setting it up in Jenkins. INSIGHTS Remote Work Productivity Music for Concentration We cover how music can help you get in that all-important and elusive state of flow. DEVELOPMENT Productivity Development Switching to a Standing Desk We discuss some of the benefits of switching to a standing desk. DEVELOPMENT Android Debugging Productivity Development The Subtle Art of Real-Time Debugging With Android Studio Debugging in real time with Android Studio. DEVELOPMENT Android Productivity Tips Development Android Studio Shortcuts: How to Boost Your Productivity The best shortcuts for Android Studio. The most famous and the most underrated.

INSIGHTS Productivity Useful Tools to Share & Organize Work Between Developers and Designers The software and services PSPDFKit uses for design work

DEVELOPMENT iOS Productivity Insights Development Using Ccache for Fun and Profit