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Watch on YouTube If you pay attention in the developer community, you probably know that Microsoft bought Github over the summer in 2018. With a massive company like Microsoft buying the world's most popular open source software developer platform, many people had questions and concerns regarding the impact this would have. Just recently, a piece of that puzzle became clearer... there will be tighter integration between Microsoft products and Github. Microsoft/Github released a new extension for Visual Studio Code called Github Pull Requests. The name of the extension pretty clearly explains what it does, but to be clear, this extensions allows developers to handle pull requests right in Visual Studio Code without having to navigate to Github's website. That said, let's take a look ...

Fusion and transduction are probably the most "blow-my-mind" practical tools I've picked up in my time studying Functional Programming. They're not tools I use every day, nor are they strictly ever necessary...But, they completely changed the way I think about programming, modularity, and abstraction in software engineering, permanently, and for the better. And to be clear, that's really the point of both this article in particular, and series in general: Not to evangelize FP, offer a silver bullet, or illuminate some magic secret sauce that's "better" than what you do now. Rather, the point is to shed light on different ways of thinking about programming, and broaden your sense of possible solutions to everyday problems. These aren't easy techniques to use fluently, and it'll probably ta...

One of the perks of freelancing is that you can work from pretty much anywhere. However, the pressures of staying connected to work may leave you stuck behind a computer all day anyway. While there’s something to be said for the levels of productivity and output you achieve from a dedicated workspace, there’s no reason you can’t keep the momentum going while you’re out and about. The following list of tools and mobile apps will help you run your web design business—and tackle various tasks associated with it—even when you’re on the go. 11 Best Tools and Mobile Apps for the Web Designer on the Go Let’s say you’re on vacation and feel inspired in the moment. Do you mentally bookmark what you saw or heard in the hopes you can put it into practice when you’re back at work? Or let’s say you’re...

I’m not going to lie, I’ve been biased toward the Vivaldi project ever since its first release in 2015. While it has (until now) lacked the sort of polish that would make it my go-to browser on a long term basis, the developers have been chugging along steadily. Now, it’s looking pretty… well… pretty. And pretty stable/fast. Plus, Vivaldi doesn’t track any of your data unless you opt in to the sync function (more on that below). In the blog post detailing their latest changes, they state: Vivaldi has always honored its users’ rights to data privacy and protection. There is no need to collect your personal information. We don’t track you. Period. I’m not saying they’re taking a veiled shot at Google, but they probably are. Vivaldi Sync If you use Vivaldi on more than one device, you can ...

How To Build A News Application With Angular 6 And Material DesignHow To Build A News Application With Angular 6 And Material Design Rachid Sakara 2018-10-03T12:00:26+02:00 2018-10-03T10:16:38+00:00 Are you looking to combine Google’s material design with Angular applications? Well, look no further! In this tutorial, we’re going to build a news application using two of the most powerful and popular resources out there, Angular 6 and material design. You’ll learn how to incorporate Google’s material design components into Angular application templates to change and style your application in a professional way. The tutorial also serves as a reminder of how to ma...

At Honeybadger, we're all about the users. As software developers, we succeed at our jobs when we have happy people using our apps. That's why we're so excited about Laravel Nova—better admin tooling means better customer support, which means happier users. In this post I want to talk about a package we built for Laravel Nova and how it gives you a seamless customer support workflow when dealing with exceptions in Laravel. Honeybadger is 360 degree coverage of errors, outages and service degradation! Honey-what? If you haven't heard of Honeybadger, you're not alone. We've mostly lived in the Ruby/Ruby on Rails world over the past 5 years, where thousands of developers use Honeybadger to monitor their applications for exceptions and other issues. Over the past year, we've worked with so...

Hyper is a terminal built on web technologies, based on JavaScript, HTML and CSS providing a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users. Hyper achieves a lot of its speed and functionality thanks to the power of hterm underneath, the terminal emulator of the Chromium project. If you're just getting started with Hyper terminal I'd suggest you definitely head to Hyper website, they have an extensive installation guide and usage documentation Today we'll be looking at the best packages and themes to make our Hyper terminal much cooler. Prerequisites Note Important words are highlighted. Bold words emphasis a point. Previous / Next code appears like this . . . . Material Theme for Hyper are link to package/theme npm repository. This project requires Node.js v6.11.0...

Introduction A few weeks ago, in the course of seeking for a developer role, I completed a technical assessment test and the entirety of this article is based on the development process; I thought it would be great to write about how I completed it, so open up your favourite code editor and let’s build something awesome and learn a few tricks. The technical assessment test asked that I built an app with the following features: Before anything else, I pulled out my pen and tore out a piece of paper, drew a basic representation of the app and decided to make it into a Google search clone. The app could have been anything really, but it sounds much better to tell my friends that I just built a Google search clone, don't you think? I decided to use Vue for the frontend and Flask for the backe...