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2022

Illustration: Case Study: How One Financial Services Company Uses PSPDFKit to Enhance Productivity On the Go

CUSTOMER STORIES | Case Study • Viewer • Annotations • 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.

Illustration: How We Make Our CI Fast

DEVELOPMENT | Testing • Productivity • Insights How We Make Our CI Fast Principles we apply to improve our CI efficiency.

Illustration: Productivity Tips When Switching from a PC to a Mac

COMPANY | Tips • Productivity Productivity Tips When Switching from a PC to a Mac Improving productivity when switching from a PC to a Mac.

2021

Illustration: A Case for Fast CI

DEVELOPMENT | Testing • Productivity • Insights A Case for Fast CI How slow build times lower your team’s productivity, and how to change this.

Illustration: How to Handle Stacked Pull Requests on GitHub

DEVELOPMENT | Productivity • Tips • git 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.

Illustration: Refactoring Git Branches with Interactive Rebase and Autosquash in Android Studio

DEVELOPMENT | Android • Productivity • git 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.

Illustration: Managing CI Pipelines with Terraform

DEVELOPMENT | Productivity • Testing • Insights Managing CI Pipelines with Terraform Learn about Terraform and how we use it to manage our Buildkite pipelines.

Illustration: How We Maintain Our Public Flutter Project Using a Private Monorepo

DEVELOPMENT | Flutter • Productivity • git • Insights 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.

Illustration: Automating Mac Catalyst Distribution with fastlane

DEVELOPMENT | iOS • Productivity • How To 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.

Illustration: While We Work: How We Stay Productive

COMPANY | Culture • Remote Work • Productivity While We Work: How We Stay Productive Some people at PSPDFKit share their tips for being productive.

2020

Illustration: Where We Work

COMPANY | Culture • Remote Work • Productivity • Insights Where We Work A blog post showing a glimpse of where our people work.

Illustration: Faster Compilation with Ccache 4.0

DEVELOPMENT | Tips • Productivity 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.

Illustration: A Better Way to Git Log to Understand Changes in a Big Codebase

DEVELOPMENT | Tips • Productivity • git 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.

Illustration: Sponsoring CocoaPods

COMPANY | Culture • Productivity Sponsoring CocoaPods PSPDFKit is sponsoring the costs of hosting the CocoaPods CND.

Illustration: Think First, Code Later

DEVELOPMENT | Android • Kotlin • Tips • Productivity Think First, Code Later A case study on how we design features and APIs for PSPDFKit for Android.

Illustration: IDEs and Text Editors for Writing C++ Code on a Large Scale

DEVELOPMENT | C++ • Tips • Productivity IDEs and Text Editors for Writing C++ Code on a Large Scale This blog post compares different IDEs and text editors that can be used to write C++ in a big codebase.

Illustration: Batch Processing PDF Files with Elixir Using PSPDFKit Server

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.

Illustration: How to Reduce Flakiness in Automated UI Testing on Android

DEVELOPMENT | Android • Kotlin • Tips • Productivity • Testing 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.

Illustration: Useful Mac Apps for Remote Workers

COMPANY | Remote Work • Productivity Useful Mac Apps for Remote Workers Reduce the friction of working remotely!

Illustration: Communication Is Key in a Remote World

COMPANY | 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.

Illustration: 9 Tips to Help You Work Effectively from Home

COMPANY | 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.

Illustration: Remote Work: How to Overcome Common Struggles of Working from Home

COMPANY | 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.

Illustration: Effective Header Management in C++

DEVELOPMENT | C++ • Tips • Productivity Effective Header Management in C++ How we can reduce build times and clean up our header dependencies with effective header management.

Illustration: Moving a Git Repository into Its Submodule

DEVELOPMENT | Tips • Productivity • git 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.

2019

Illustration: WWDC for First-Timers, 2019 Edition

DEVELOPMENT | Culture • Productivity • Insights WWDC for First-Timers, 2019 Edition Here's how to get the most out of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference.

Illustration: Remote Work: What I've Learned from a Decade as a Remote Software Engineer

COMPANY | 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.

Illustration: How Spaced Repetition Helps You Learn New Things

DEVELOPMENT | Productivity • Tips 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.

Illustration: Making Notes on a PDF Document

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.

Illustration: Eight Hours: Sleep

COMPANY | Culture • Remote Work • Productivity Eight Hours: Sleep Can't concentrate during the day? Sleep may be the key to ensuring you do.

Illustration: Eight Hours: Recreation

COMPANY | 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.

Illustration: Eight Hours: Work

COMPANY | Culture • Remote Work • Productivity Eight Hours: Work Do we spend our working hours efficiently, or can we optimize the way we work?

Illustration: A Modern Approach to Work: Pursuing Mindfulness, Purpose, and Efficiency

COMPANY | 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.

2018

Illustration: Time Management

DEVELOPMENT | Productivity 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.

Illustration: Using Clang-Tidy and Integrating It in Jenkins

DEVELOPMENT | Productivity Using Clang-Tidy and Integrating It in Jenkins The benefits of using clang-tidy and how to get started setting it up in Jenkins.

Illustration: Music for Concentration

COMPANY | Remote Work • Productivity Music for Concentration We cover how music can help you get in that all-important and elusive state of flow.

Illustration: Switching to a Standing Desk

DEVELOPMENT | Productivity Switching to a Standing Desk We discuss some of the benefits of switching to a standing desk.

Illustration: The Subtle Art of Real-Time Debugging With Android Studio

DEVELOPMENT | Android • Debugging • Productivity The Subtle Art of Real-Time Debugging With Android Studio Debugging in real time with Android Studio.

Illustration: Android Studio Shortcuts: How to Boost Your Productivity

DEVELOPMENT | Android • Productivity • Tips Android Studio Shortcuts: How to Boost Your Productivity The best shortcuts for Android Studio. The most famous and the most underrated.

2017

Illustration: Useful Tools to Share & Organize Work Between Developers and Designers

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

2015

Illustration: Using Ccache for Fun and Profit

DEVELOPMENT | iOS • Productivity • Insights Using Ccache for Fun and Profit