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It’s been nearly two years since I started my professional journey by joining Telstra Purple. It’s been an amazing and rewarding ride. Today…
PreambleFirst post for 2020 🎉. Probably post a year in review soonish… Welcome back to our projects or work :)The #1 advice I always give…
It has been a while since I posted on this blog. Hopefully I can get back into it :) Running projects require a different skill set than…
Thank you for choosing to help out in one of our charity projects 💜. We love and appreciate the fact that you have volunteered your time…
Storing JWT tokens in localStorageStoring JWT tokens in is common but it is considered bad practice since it opens you up to exploitation…
Testing and DebuggingYou can use statement to breakpoint an application. Just open dev tools first then run the application and it will…
Facebook initially developed GraphQL for internal consumption in 2012/2013 before publicly releasing it in 2015 and subsequently moved it to…
Here are a list of my favourite tools I will always download on my new computer. This is aimed at frontend development.Summary of ToolsGet a…
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Lessons LearntI thought I would share some of the wisdom that I have gained in the trenches.Writing good software is hard. Most websites are…
There will always come a time when you need to move your website or more likely your database to another hosting platform. For example you…
AnswerDefinitely worth a look but still immature, difficult to debug and community/documentation underdeveloped. I would stick with your…
This blog was started by David which mainly discusses software and tips for student/professional developers. Content would revolve around…
Process managersAutomatically restart appPerformance metricsModify settings dynamically to improve performanceControl…
Tech companies are constantly being acquired for hundreds of millions even billions of dollars. Take for example the this recent acquisition…
The much anticipated annual SO survey has just dropped here is the link to the entire results https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/201…
Everything looks bigger in production but in local environment everything is sized correctly.Zoom level is different for the web pagesThe…
You have to add a callback to the statement e.g. You can’t do something like this If that doesn’t work try this longer way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPB34lDZj3E Talks about the ideal programming language. Introduces some interesting ideas0.1 + 0.2 should…
I have grown to like the Laravel framework very much even though I am not a fan of php. The reason why I like it so much is because it takes…
This technique doesn’t work too well with mongo atlas. Instead mongoDB compass can be used to import and export the data. There you will…
Most websites use the https protocol to serve all their traffic. This is to ensure that the data is encrypted so no unintended party can…
Your database contains the most valuable part of your application, its data. All other parts of your applications Frontend, backend, API…
Normally to insert html one would use the function however it becomes a pain when you just want to append something because you would…
The default python/pip installation on mac produces some issues when trying to run here are some ways to fix it. I would suggest reading…
Easy design tips to use on your site immediately https://medium.com/refactoring-ui/7-practical-tips-for-cheating-at-design-40c…
Alt + up arrow to quickly move between functionsAlt + enter to intention actionsCtrl + shift + f7 Highlight all usagesCtrl+Alt+Shift+N To…
Without a doubt Axios is a great HTTP client library. It simplifies and improves http requests although the new es6 http calls are nice in…
Ever since the release of material design by google websites have been adopting it for its beautiful design and it’s ability to give a…
Being a student and a software developer is actually quite an attractive position for a lot of organizations so they offer you a lot of…
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in…
Wow! I love blogging so much already.Did you know that “despite its name, salted duck eggs can also be made from chicken eggs, though the…
This is my first post on my new fake blog! How exciting!I’m sure I’ll write a lot more interesting things in the future.Oh, and here’s a…