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You Can Finally Run Visual Studio Code On Your Browser
If you are on the go and not around your main coding laptop, or maybe you're on a machine that doesn't have Visual Studio Code installed (or...
Top 7 Security Best Practices For Your Websites
Published on: 10/20/2021 - 5 min read
Top 7 Security Best Practices For Your Websites
If you own or run a website, then security should be near the top of the list in terms of daily priorities. You far too often hear stories o...
How to show users their plain-text passwords
Published on: 10/18/2021 - 2 min read
How to show users their plain-text passwords
A common feature that many websites now implement, is the ability to toggle on and off the password visibility on a signup form....
What Is A Headless CMS?
Published on: 10/14/2021 - 6 min read
What Is A Headless CMS?
Let's start off by defining what a non-headless CMS is. A Content Management System (CMS) is essentially a repository of digital content whe...
What do you do when coding gets boring?
Published on: 10/12/2021 - 4 min read
What do you do when coding gets boring?
Typically, writing code and designing apps (while getting paid) is a fun and fulfilling use of time. But after your hundredth login page and...
6 Beginner tips when working with databases
Published on: 10/4/2021 - 5 min read
6 Beginner tips when working with databases
At some point in your programming career, you are going to have to work with a database. You might need to modify a schema, or to add a reco...
Getting to know Heroku in 5 minutes
Published on: 9/27/2021 - 7 min read
Getting to know Heroku in 5 minutes
Heroku is a cloud application platform that first launched in 2007 with a single programming language in mind, Ruby....
Is the Surface Pro 8 the best programming laptop so far?
The new Surface Pro 8 series of laptop/tablet hybrids have just been announced and they are set to be released on October 4, 2021. I am pers...
Falling into the junior developer pitfall
Published on: 9/20/2021 - 5 min read
Falling into the junior developer pitfall
A while ago, (a long while ago) I myself was a junior software engineer looking to climb the ladder as quickly as I could. After many interv...
What is the best way to learn JavaScript?
Published on: 9/15/2021 - 5 min read
What is the best way to learn JavaScript?
JavaScript has quickly become one of the most widely used and popular programming languages of the past decade. Thanks in part to technologi...
5  Reasons Why Your Code Will Develop Bugs
Published on: 9/10/2021 - 5 min read
5  Reasons Why Your Code Will Develop Bugs
People often imagine that only low-level software made in a rush is capable of having bugs due to poor programming techniques or inexperienc...
How to add character count to any textarea in JavaScript
If you are building a user entry form of any kind, you often times want to limit the number of characters that a user is allowed to enter in...
How To Effectively Use 'async' and 'await' in JavaScript
Promise based asynchronous code in JavaScript has typically not been the easiest to write. Dealing with promise-chaining and nested callback...
Is the Surface Laptop 4 good for programming?
Published on: 8/26/2021 - 9 min read
Is the Surface Laptop 4 good for programming?
The Surface line of laptops has changed alot during the past couple of years. Where as once they were merely lightweight 2-in1's that ran ...
How Much Should I Expect to Earn as a Programmer
Published on: 8/25/2021 - 3 min read
How Much Should I Expect to Earn as a Programmer
Because of the influx of digital adoption across industries, tech-based jobs are among the most relevant and fastest-growing in the job...
The biggest problem with using target=_blank
Before browsers had tabs, websites would often open new webpages in their own instances of the browser. You would eventually come to know th...
5 platforms where you can host your websites for free
If a monthly payment plan is what is holding you up from launching your website or portfolio, then you'll be relieved to know that there are...
5 things that will make learning to program much easier
Learning to code professionally is in general not the easiest task that you can take on. In the past it might have been a simpler time. You ...
4 common mistakes junior developers make at work
Everybody is a junior at least once. At least for a portion of their lives. And during that time, mistakes will happen and servers will go d...
Top FontAwesome alternatives to use on your websites
Loading icons onto a web page used to be a difficult and tedious task. In the past web developers essentially had to create and load image s...