Which Web Programming Language To Learn
Trying to figure out the best web programming language to learn is challenging to say the least but I believe there are some key points to look at that can help your decision. There are basically 3...
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Throttling vs Debouncing
In computer software there are times when code can make lots of requests. Sometimes this is ok but a lot of times this puts an unnecessary strain on the server. Two methods of rate limiting are...
View Article3 Things NOT To Do In A Job Posting
1) Not posting salary range It can be very tempting in job postings to not specify a salary range. A job poster wants to be flexible and see what kind of candidates are out there but there are a lot of...
View ArticleHow to Hire a Good Developer
This post doesn’t try to explain the difference between a junior developer and a senior developer. The main focus is to share traits that I think are good for any software developer in any...
View ArticleIntro to RESTful HTTP
REST is a set of principle and practices used for organizing interactions between different systems. While REST is much more detailed than I can go into in this little post I hope to provide a simple...
View ArticleRESTful HTTP API Logins
Assuming you already know about the different HTTP Methods you may agree with me that GET was the most appropriate method to use for logging in because a person was trying to GET their user...
View ArticleIntro to Refactoring
A lot of time I hear people using the terms refactoring and optimizing synonymously. I personally don’t see it that way. In fact, to me, sometimes refactoring makes code less optimized! It reminds me...
View ArticleAppropriate RESTful Handling of Password Reset and Email Verification
I really like consistency and patterns. I may be a little OCD but I think following patterns makes code easier to develop and maintain. I also like to have a good pattern to follow when creating APIs....
View ArticleYii 2: Return Errors for Unsafe Attributes
In Yii 2 your models can have safe and unsafe attributes for example: class User extends Model { public $name; public $passwordHash; public function rules() { return [ [['name'],...
View ArticleYii2: Manually Loading a Model
I’ve set up my site where I have submodels depending on the the type specified in the row. So let’s say I’ve got a table called `animal` and each row has a `type` column where it could be dog, cat, or...
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