Are you looking to streamline your web development process and create efficient and powerful applications? Look no further than Laravel, a widely popular PHP framework that has gained immense recognition for its elegant syntax, robust features, and ...
SOLID Principles in Software Development: Key Benefits
Imagine you’re part of a team working on a complex software project. The initial excitement is soon overshadowed by the growing complexity and difficulty of managing the codebase. This is where SOLID principles in software development come into play ...
Best Frontend Frameworks 2024: React vs Angular vs Vue
Introduction When it comes to building web applications, selecting the best frontend framework for 2024 is crucial. It sets the tone for your development process and impacts the user experience. With so many options available, it’s essential to u ...
The QA mindset: Contemplating the mindset of a tester at each testing level in SDLC.
In the intricate world of software development, testing plays a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, functionality, and quality of the end product. Testing isn't just about finding bugs; it's a structured process that involves various levels, e ...
PHP Development in VS Code and Docker Dev Containers
Nowadays it is a must-have skill to use docker for your development. To start the development with docker here are some prerequisites: If you're on Windows you have WSL installed on your system. It will also be required for Docker. You have D ...
How To Develop Cloud-based Fullstack Application From Scratch?
So, from today we are going to start developing a personal finance system from the ground up where we can track our expenses, income, get an idea of where our money goes, have a birds-eye view of our financial status, and generate some statistical r ...
var vs const vs let in JavaScript
When programming in JavaScript, developers have three main options for declaring variables: var, let, and const. Each of these options has its own advantages and use cases, and understanding the differences between them is crucial to writing efficie ...
How to choose a WordPress Theme?
When it comes to choosing a theme for their websites, most newcomers are overwhelmed. There are thousands of themes available, both free and paid. Each theme appears to be superior to the others. How do you pick the best WordPress theme? As a res ...
Why database should be taught before programming in universities?
Learn Database before Coding Often students from the initial semester ask me how do we store our data in our programming projects? When students join university to learn about computer science and technology they are usually taught programming fi ...
Mark parent category menu active on single custom post view in WordPress
Recently I developed a theme for one of my clients and I had to highlight the menu item of the parent category in the main menu when one of its associated single custom posts was viewed. For that, I had to add an action in my functions.php file for n ...
Why we moved from OpenShift to Google Cloud
The good old days When OpenShift was in its version 1 it was great from the customer's point of view with a low budget. OpenShift v1 had free offers to deploy apps and add a custom domain to it. There was no SSL support but it could be handled via th ...
Displaying Multiline Title in WordPress
In WordPress when the title is written it is usually displayed in a single line on front-end until it is too long to display in one line. But if you want to write the title in multiline and want to line break the title after a certain word how can yo ...
Different color for each menu item in WordPress
In a recent project, I got a requirement that each menu item should be highlighted in a different color when visited. The menu items and their required active colors were: Home - Green Portfolio - Blue Team - Yellow Contact - Red These colo ...
Rollover image – Change image on hover/mouse over
Often when designing websites static or dynamic, PHP or ASP.Net, Laravel or WordPress, you have to design in a way that if the user hovers an image it gets changed and an alternate image is displayed. This can be easily achieved via simple HTML event ...
Sharing data between Laravel and Angular
When building applications with Laravel and Angular you might come across a problem where you want to print data using AngularJS brackets {{}} but before it can be parsed by Angular, Laravel blade engine parses it and tries to replace the value if it ...
Laravel: Specified key was too long error on migration
When you install a new Laravel project with 'laravel new' and run the migration that comes with it you might get the following error: #php artisan migrate Migration table created successfully. SQLSTATE: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Spe ...
Setup CodeIgniter Docker container for development
Docker Docker is the world’s leading software container platform. Developers use Docker to eliminate “works on my machine” problems when collaborating on code with co-workers. Operators use Docker to run and manage apps side-by-side in isolated conta ...
Setup Laravel with Docker containers
Docker Docker has captured my attention lately and has been growing exponentially for last few years. Docker has revolutionized the virtualization space and has given DevOps engineers and developers a new set of tools that can ease their development ...
Visual Studio 2017 is coming in March
Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2017 will be available for download on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Microsoft is also celebrating a launch event. You can join at 8:00 AM PST on March 7th and 8th for a two-day online event celebrating the launch ...
How To: Offline access to Vue.js documentation
If you are working with Vue.js Javascript framework to build your next generation web apps then you might be frequently visiting the Vue.js guide section (https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/) to see how certain things work in Vue.js. Most of the time you go ...
Event handling with custom components in Vue.js
If you've been working with Vue.js lately and developing custom components to build your apps you might come across how to communicate from child component to parent. There are couple of scenarios here. Immediate parent child components If you want i ...
Deploy your first ASP.Net MVC App to AppHarbor
Our focus is to deploy our ASP.Net MVC app built using new Visual Studio 2015 MVC template to AppHarbor via GitHub.
One reason why you should refactor your code often
Once upon a time, a consultant made a visit to a development project. The consultant looked at some of the code that had been written; there was a class hierarchy at the center of the system. As he wandered through the hierarchy, the consultant saw t ...
Resolving error in installing any gem by Ruby
After installing the Ruby installer you might need to install some gems. For example, if you are developing with RedHat OpenShift you want to install 'rhc' gem to access remote files on OpenShift. To install 'rhc' you would run the following command. ...