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Software Development News and Articles

5 Reasons Why You Won't Like Using React
React
Published on: 1/6/2022 - 5 min read
5 Reasons Why You Won't Like Using React
React currently sits on top of the throne when it comes to popular Node.js frameworks. And that's because it gets alot right....
Non-coding things every developer should know
Published on: 1/4/2022 - 4 min read
Non-coding things every developer should know
The new year is finally among us, and I think many can agree, that it took a while to get here. With this new start though, there is new opp...
How to bind a dropdown dynamically using React
React
Published on: 12/22/2021 - 2 min read
How to bind a dropdown dynamically using React
With state-based dynamic rendering, it's a relatively simple process when it comes to generating a dropdown (select) element dynamically ont...
Is JetBrains Fleet the New VS Code?
Published on: 12/6/2021 - 4 min read
Is JetBrains Fleet the New VS Code?
Every so often you will read about the next up and coming coding IDE destined to take over the development world and topple the reign that i...
5 Reasons Why I'm Switching Over To Node.js in 2022
NodeJS
Published on: 11/28/2021 - 5 min read
5 Reasons Why I'm Switching Over To Node.js in 2022
The majority of my almost 2 decade career has revolved around C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server for the most part, and I’d like to think that ...
The importance of having good folder structure
Published on: 11/23/2021 - 4 min read
The importance of having good folder structure
Folder structure is something that most developers usually take for granted because often times it is something that is already present when...
How to remove console logs in your production code
Published on: 11/17/2021 - 4 min read
How to remove console logs in your production code
Every JavaScript developer loves using the console in order to test out and debug their applications. I do as well. It's just too convenient...
How to Implement a Substitution Cipher in JavaScript
Javascript
Published on: 11/13/2021 - 5 min read
How to Implement a Substitution Cipher in JavaScript
Cipher's are a good way to put your coding skills into practice. They are usually relatively simple to implement in terms of the amount of c...
Should You Use a JavaScript Framework?
Javascript
Published on: 11/11/2021 - 5 min read
Should You Use a JavaScript Framework?
I've read far too many articles this week about why developers should avoid using JavaScript frameworks in lieu of plain old vanilla JavaScr...
How I Plan Out My Coding Projects
Productivity
Published on: 11/8/2021 - 6 min read
How I Plan Out My Coding Projects
During the past few years I've had the opportunity to work on a variety of coding projects, both professional and personal. And in that time...
Is C# Dying Out in 2022?
Published on: 10/26/2021 - 6 min read
Is C# Dying Out in 2022?
More recently I've been hearing rumors on the internet that C# is going the way of the dinosaur. That the .NET framework is just too fragmen...
You Can Finally Run Visual Studio Code On Your Browser
Visual Studio
Published on: 10/22/2021 - 4 min read
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
Security
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
Web Design
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
Database
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
Web Development
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?
Gadgets
Published on: 9/24/2021 - 9 min read
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
Programming
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...