Ruanna articles - 62 total
The Ultimate Guide to Breaking into Tech: Get Learning
I've been meeting more and more people lately who are looking for a career change and eager to get a...
The Ultimate Guide to Breaking into Tech: Part 1 - Explore Different Roles
Hi everyone! I've been meeting more and more people lately who are looking for a career change and...
Top 10 Blogs of 2021 to Help You Build Your Location-Based App
For the entire world, a lot of things changed in 2020 – including the way we move. 2021 proved to be...
19 Developer Resources from November
...from TomTom Developers! This November brought a new API in public preview, and lots of tutorials...
19 Location Technology & Developer Resources
September means saying goodbye to summer and hello to fall! It is a time of transition and change,...
16 Tips and Tools to Build your Location App with in August
Ah, August – the last official month of summer. Whether you took some time to travel locally,...
20 Inspiring Mapping & Developer Resources
Hi! I'm Ruanna, from the TomTom Developer Relations team. Every month on our Developer Blog, we...
Women in Tech Spotlight: Kasia Kaczmarek, Product Manager, Maps SDK
One of my favorite parts of my role is being able to do what I love – writing! I started a series ear...
17 Blogs & Videos That Will Help you Develop your App
April was a month with some fun news as we refreshed our Map Display API. We also had some new tutori...
Maps APIs Tutorials from March
Calling all location lovers! March was a month of new blogs, videos, and events from TomTom Developer...
International Women's Day Events
Hi DEV community! I've been getting involved in a lot of diversity, equity, & inclusion activiti...
CSS Newbie Tips?
Hi DEV community! I have a pretty good understanding of HTML and am now attempting to learn CSS. Do...
10 Organizations Working to Diversify the Tech Space
I'm passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion for all, and am always looking for ways to...
Creating an App for Efficient and Convenient Delivery Services
The demand for on-demand services is not going away anytime soon – which means there is lots of room...
So You Want to Get Into Tech. Here's Where to Start
Back in October of this year, I attended a virtual event called LTX Fest - a space for Latin@s in the...
Career Change Tips: Remember the Why
Well, we've come to the 5th and final post in my series on career change tips. Exactly one year ago I...
Live on Twitch: Q&A - How is Traffic Made? 12/15 @ 12pm PT
Visit https://www.twitch.tv/tomtomdevs to learn all about how traffic is made! In this Q&A, we'll...
Career Change Tips: Practice Gratitude 🙏
It can be hard to feel grateful when rejection emails keep popping up in your inbox or you find yours...
10 Women in Tech to Follow on DEV!
I'm passionate about equity, inclusion, and diversity in tech so I compiled a list of some of my favo...
As the world waits... here's a book review!
A perpetual state of limbo as we wait and watch, as we check the news headlines and refresh our socia...
Displaying Maps with Flutter
Here's a simple map application which uses an open source flutter plugin that implements the JavaScri...
Bats, Beasts, & Beacons, oh my! Geofencing and Privacy this Halloween 🦇
This Halloween, you can create an application that uses data – but doesn’t abuse it – and have fun ex...
Feeling the Vibes & the Importance of Connection✨
Author's note: I originally intended on posting this a couple weeks ago on the last day of LTX Fest,...
How to Make a Fun Halloween Map 🎃
With Halloween just around the corner, have some fun with a mapping side project using the TomTom Map...
Real-time Transit Mapping, Part 2: Building a Web Map
Let's use the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) APIs and GTFS-RT data. In this article we'll use that BAR...
How To Add Traffic APIs to Your Location-Based App
TomTom Traffic APIs If you’re a developer, you probably already know why APIs are valuable...
How to Build a Real-time Transit Map with GTFS-RT Data
Mapping public transit means more than just knowing where the transit stops are. The timing is as imp...
5 Innovative Ways Governments and Agencies can use Mapping
We’ll examine five innovative ways open data sources can be used to improve civic life, along with th...
Fitness Mapping with the Strava API
Fitness apps for runners, bikers, and hikers can collect useful information, including location data....
Career Change Tips: Engage in Online Communities
Backstory: I recently posted an updated version of an article I wrote on five tips for changing caree...