Tag: Web development
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A brief guide to user experience maps
Posted on November 27, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Christopher Ratcliff to the point article about user experience maps. An industry is struggling to agree on one standardised name for the same thing and author tries to find answer why is that.
Tags web-development ux
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How to host Hugo static website generator on AWS Lambda
Posted on November 25, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ilya Bezdelev wrote tutorial how to create a static website publishing platform hosted in the cloud using several AWS services. It will run static website generator Hugo on AWS Lambda, store files in AWS S3 and serve them from AWS CloudFront. This is older (2015) but still very good article.
Tags web-development serverless aws docker
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Web scraping with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless
Posted on November 22, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Emad Ehsan put together article about how to get started with Web Scraping in Chrome Headless. Chrome Headless is going to be industry leader in Automated Testing of web applications. Puppeteer is the official tool for Chrome Headless by Google Chrome team.
Tags web-development big-data machine-learning
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Host static site with Hugo and Firebase for free
Posted on November 21, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Ariya Hidayat short and to the point post about hosting static web site with Firebase. He decided to abandon WordPress for his blog and switch to Hugo to generate the content and Firebase to host it. How did the authoring workflow change due to this switch?
Tags web-development programming containers
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Science behind gamification - why it works
Posted on October 27, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Jenny Mudarri neat article on gamification and why it works. It's no secret that playing games is fun, but that's not the only reason we keep coming back for more. After all, games are designed with the human brain in mind...
Tags web-development app-development ux
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Privacy and trustworthiness for web notifications
Posted on October 25, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) nice short article / announcement about privacy of web notifications. HTTPS (HTTP over TLS) is possibly the most widely used security protocol in existence. HTTPS is a two-party protocol; it involves a single client and a single server. This aspect of the protocol limits the ways in which it can be used.
Tags programming web-development infosec
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Introduction to Generators in PHP
Posted on October 14, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Niklas Keller excellent blog post focusing on generators in PHP. Generators are special functions in PHP. Whenever a function contains yield, it's no longer a normal function anymore, but always returns a Generator.
Tags programming php web-development
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Host your blog for free
Posted on October 13, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Cyrille Hemidy blog post describing how to host your static web site for free. Site is generated with Hugo generator, free SSL certificate and security provided by Cloudflare, and CI/CD provided via GitHub and Netlify.
Tags web-development programming
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Erlang tutorial for PHP developers
Posted on October 12, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Marcelog published article intended for PHP developers that want to understand and start learning and coding Erlang applications. Author tried to point out main differences between these two distant worlds from a general perspective.
Tags erlang programming php web-development
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Image Effects with CSS
Posted on October 11, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Bennett Feely nice write-up on using one or more newer CSS properties (background-blend-mode, mix-blend-mode, or filter) and how it gives us a surprising amount of possibilities to manipulate a single source image.
Tags css programming web-development
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My $169 development Chromebook
Posted on July 28, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Kenneth White excellent blog post exploring his experience with using Chromebook as his main development station after 2 weeks of usage.
Tags programming web-development
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9 Tips To Become A Better Front End Developer
Posted on July 27, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Harrison Davis has written article in which he collected 9 tips how to become better front end developer.
Tags programming web-development