Best practices are always an hot topic. I love them because I like to do things in the way most of people do it. They help me to improve my job and we can adapt our need and styles to them. We must not go so much far from them or we can be disoriented.What about style guides?Best practices are easily related to style gui... [...]
Java is a skill that many companies are continuing to ask. I have worked for a couple of companies that use Java as core of their backend and enterprise applications. I have made a Java course and I have started coding with this language. Maybe it's the strongest OOP language ever. But i have soon started to see how complex,... [...]
After a significative experience with PHP, Yii 2 and other related technologies I have worked with Angular 2. with Angular 1.x and NodeJS for 4 months. This last step was the right time when I switched from PHP backend development to pure Frontend engineering. It has been a big change when I started to learn core... [...]
Using a web debuggers or proxy can be very useful to analyze the traffic of your website, show the performances of your web pages and try to improve both performances and security. Here we see what we can do.Popular Web debuggersFiddlerBurp Suite by PortSwiggerCharles web debugger proxyImproving ... [...]
I was wondering if I can have both Python 2 and 3 on Windows. To solve this problem I have followed some simple steps.WindowsInstall Python 2Add c:\Python2 path on the path of your enviroment variablesRename python.exe as python2.exeInstall Python 3Add c:\Python3 path on the path of your enviroment variabl... [...]
Blockchain is definetely an exciting technologies. It's complex but very powerful. Don't think only to cryptocurrencies. Blockchain can be used for many others projects! Here I want to have some ideas about the tool we can use to build innovative and amazing applications with small efforts. No more talking then. Let'... [...]
Let's introduce Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. What are them? Is there any difference between them? Let's start reading something on wikipedia about Virtual Reality. "Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-generated scenario that simulates experience". The are various fields of application an... [...]
Using the Indeed API for your job search and ads is easy and you can obtain informations from all countries. The localization is a little bit difficult step because Indeed has a different domain for their websites in every nation. I have built a simple API caller to make a simple query simply by keyword, place \ region (opt... [...]
Installing Bootstrap 4 on your NGCli project can be more difficult than you think. NPM is a really strange dependency manager and you have always to solve problems because of its instability. I have had several errors installing any Bootstrap package. A very simple operation took me hours to find the right solution!NOTE a... [...]
We must create and include sitemaps into our website or application. After we create the XML file, we must let the search engine to see our maps and analyze them, It will be possible to have some error but Google can inform us about broken links, URL that returns 404, redirects etc.Sitemaps TypesXML sitemap, the... [...]
Google Search Console recommends to use structured data inside HTML pages. You can improve your bredcrumbs and insert a JSON or HTML with microdata inside your web pages to let google know about the contents of your page and help it to create a better index with your informations. In fact they say: "Google uses structured d... [...]
To optimize the images for your website, application or blog is very important for the performances. I recommend to use GIF images if possible and the same size for every images of your posts or articles. That's because It can be much easier to maintain your files and update them in any case. We need to be patient to do... [...]
NodeJS and NPM on Windows can be really terrible. I'm having many problems with PCs running Windows 8 and 10. Fixing writing permissions is boring and annoying when you don't know what is the source of the problem. The npm behaviour is unpredictable and it seems it gives you always a different answer or error.NP... [...]
If you haven't any particular dependencies you can easily deploy your Angular app in a shared hosting using the amazing Ng Cli.Simply run:ng build --prodIf you haven't any error, this command will build your app and create a dist directory. In this directory, you will find result of your app with static... [...]
To find a working configuration for an Angular v2+ Ng Cli application was not easy. I have built my own solution at the end and the build with Travis finally pass the tests. Remember to sync your Travis account if you have created a new repository: once you have logged in the Travis website, go to your user icon, click... [...]
NGCli is amazing but it still needs something more to be perfect. I was wondering if there is something about code documentation with Angular and I have found a couple of libraries very easily.CompodocCompodoc is very easy to find on Google. I have tried it and I like it. You can install it globally with npm and sta... [...]
Yes it is! If you upgrade your Yii 2 assets on your installation, there will be many difficulties to use the bootstrap 3 css and js files using the Yii 2 assets. So be sure you need bootstrap 4 only for your projects. First of all we update the dependencies on our composer,json file.{ "require": {... [...]
There are a LOT of operations to do to be in a good situation for search engines, especially if your website generate dynamic web pages. Every page can be linked and promoted so you must be ready to serve the web a page in the best way you can do. I ensure it's not easy so here I try to create a list of recommendations and o... [...]
Let's if an admin boilerplate or exterrnal dependency can help us to build our application faster and more efficiently than integrate an admin template manually and build all interfaces we need. I still think Laravel hasn't a good and own code generator like the amazing Gii on Yii2. This is a problem for me and that'... [...]
To do something before a controller is loaded is a common problem to all MVC frameworks. On Yii 2 you can use the beforeAction method for a single controller but if you need to do a something before every controller, you have to use the config/main.php file. I use this technique to register meta tags for every page but... [...]