Web Development
How to Become a Web Developer: The Basics
In today’s world, being a web developer is one of the most lucrative jobs. Even though this job title sounds kind of scary to those not involved in the matter, it actually implies possessing a certain set of skills and knowledge about creating websites. Here’s how you can become one.
10 Free, Highly Useful Tools for Web Developers
Over the years I have found many useful free tools to help me in my job as a Web Developer. In this post, I share 10 of my favourite free tools with you so you can get the benefit of them too.
Getting Started with Fullstack Web Development
If you’re thinking of going the the full stack route, then this article is for you. I will explain the general requirements of a full stack developer, what the role entails, and how the skillset can be useful for freelancers/contractors who want to work directly either for clients or in their own projects.
Overstacked? The Journey to Becoming a Fullstack Web Developer
At first glance, it is easy to believe that programming as a profession is one which is both in rude health, and for which the future is incredibly bright. This post discusses the journey to becoming a Fullstack web developer.
AngularJS
Intro to Angular.js
Angular.js is responsible for accepting data from the middleware of your application and vice versa. For those of you coming from Python, Angular is similar to jinja2. This post shows a first example for working with Angular.js.
A Guide To Transclusion in AngularJS
It wasn’t until writing the transclusion chapter for my book that I felt I had fully grasped this topic. This article is an attempt to write the user guide I wish I’d had before. I want to describe what you can do with transclusion and how you can do it.
Exploring ES6 Classes In AngularJS 1.x
In this post I will describe a way of using ES6 classes today in your AngularJS 1.x applications. This is intended more as an exploration than a recommendation of a best practice.
PHP
Lumen Micro PHP Framework Review
Lumen is a micro PHP framework offering from Laravel. Those of you who know me know that I am a big Laravel advocate, however, I will try and stay impartial on the Lumen front. Here is my review of Lumen.
Slim Micro Framework Overview
The Slim framework is a PHP micro framework that helps PHP developers quickly and easily write web applications and APIs. It includes attractive and distinct features like URL routing, middleware architecture, etc. This article provides an overview of the Slim framework.
Drupal 8 with Redis, PHP 7, Nginx, and MariaDB on Drupal VM Using CentOS
When you develop many different kinds of Drupal sites you need to be able to adapt your environment to the needs of the site-some sites use Memcached and Varnish, others use Solr, and yet others cache data in Redis! This post describes how to develop for Drupal 8 with Redis, PHP 7, Nginx, and MariaDB on a Drupal VM using CentOS.
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