Successful projects are all about successful project management. Use these tools to cruise your way to success! Project management is the secret sauce that finishes projects successfully and allows companies to become great. No, this is not clickbait — I’ve seen two software companies up close (I was employed there) get destroyed within 1-2 years…
Are you looking for a queuing system? Or maybe you’re seeking a better one? Here’s all the info you need! Queuing systems are the best-kept secret of backend development. Without trying to write out a poem in praise of queuing systems, I’d say that a junior backend developer becomes a mid-level backend developer after he…
AWS keeps dominating, whether it is quality or quantity. As a result, many gems can get lost in the crowding. AWS keeps expanding faster than anyone can deal with. Even seasoned architects confess that they know no more than 20-30% of the depth that AWS has to offer. While more options are always welcome, the…
Bootstrap is everywhere, but it’s not always the right tool for the job. Here are some great alternatives! If you check the source code of a website’s front-end at random these days, chance are you’ll find Bootstrap underneath. We’ve all become so used to concepts like container-fluid, row, col-sm-6, etc., that it’s hard to imagine…
Asynchronous programming is a first-class citizen in Python now. If you’re a web developer, there are amazing frameworks you can choose from! As of writing, asynchronous is no more just a buzzword in the Python community. With the release of its asyncio library in 3.5 version, Python acknowledged the impact of Node.js on web development…
CSS has come a long way, but the tooling around it hasn’t until now. If you feel that writing CSS is like fighting monsters in a tar pit, you’re not alone. While CSS is one of the most fundamental technologies powering the Web, it’s not a proper programming language or framework per se. As a…
So you think your SQL database is performant and safe from instant destruction? Well, SQL Injection disagrees! Yes, it’s instant destruction we’re talking about, because I don’t want to open this article with the usual lame terminology of “tightening security” and “preventing malicious access.” SQL Injection is such an old trick in the book that…
For most application developers, the database is an altar of demon gods best left unapproached. But it need not be that way! Other things being equal, the level of comfort a developer has with the underlying database defines their seniority level. Little database and little coding experience = junior developer; little database and good coding…
Laravel is many things. But fast isn’t one of them. Let’s learn some tricks of the trade to make it go faster! No PHP developer is untouched by Laravel these days. They’re either a junior or mid-level developer who love the rapid development Laravel offers, or they’re a senior developer who’s being forced to learn…
What’s the next best thing to coding? The code editor, of course! Code editors are the second most significant reason for programmer flame wars (the first one being code formatting). To some, Vim is the only sensible editor ever created, while to others everything that doesn’t fit the Inception-like spirally head-spinning world of Emacs is…
