Engineering at MindLink
Rebuilding a performant emoji picker in React with hooks
Before I start, we didn’t really want to have to do this. There are a couple of really good projects out there that offer an emoji picker…
Automate your memory profiling now
MindLink’s core product is designed to be a long running and stable server brokering between clients and chat systems. Stability is…
Hybrid Electron application deployment in the enterprise
Enterprises love control, that usually means they’re only going to install your software if there’s an MSI package that they can deploy…
The Symphony London Hackathon 2018
MindLink entered it’s first hackathon and placed second with the Town Hall bot. This post is a brief review of how it went! TL;DR MindLink…
Visualising Skype for Business Persistent chat data
Persistent Chat allows the Skype For Business users to create topic-based discussion rooms that persist over time. This feature allows users…
Getting started with Python and the MindLink API.
Today, we’ll have a look at how I started coding in Python to work with the MindLink API. Although Python is an extremely popular language…
Parallelizing our CI tests
In this second “improving our CI tests” blog we’ll complete our journey by: Enabling parallel NUnit test execution at the text-fixture…
Mixin that memory leak
This is a story of how, without much effort, mixins can give you memory leaks all over your shiny stuff. TL;DR Mixins share the properties…
Improving our CI tests
This is the story of how we: Enabled parallel NUnit test execution Migrated our CI test stack to a reproduceable and self-contained…
End-To-End Encryption with the Signal Protocol
What is the Signal Protocol? The Signal Protocol (formerly TextSecure Protocol) defines a cryptographic encryption protocol for secure end…
Creating a private Ethereum blockchain and using it as a model
Recently there’s been a lot of fascination surrounding blockchains, and how they can be used to improve long-standing industry technologies…
Custom content in a Skype for Business conversation
At MindLink we like to take current trends in messaging and see if we can get more out of Skype for Business (SfB) by supporting them. This…
Leveraging Rasa to build on-premise intelligent chat bots
In this post we will explain and demonstrate how to leverage Rasa to develop intelligent chatbots and securely deploy them on premise…
Why DraftJS doesn't work on Android
DraftJS is a popular open source rich text editing library for React maintained by Facebook. It allows developers to decorate input text as…
Publishing to GitHub Pages from TFS
Recently we decided it was time to publish our own blog to showcase some of what our talented engineers do and find interesting. To do this…