Category: Tech

  • Compass/Sass

    Compass/Sass

    Compass helps Sass authors write smarter stylesheets and empowers a community of designers and developers to create and share powerful frameworks. Put simply, Compass is a Sass framework, designed to make the work of styling the web smooth and efficient. Much like Rails as a web application framework for Ruby, Compass is a collection of…

  • WordPress

    WordPress

    What is WordPress? At its core, WordPress is the simplest, most popular way to create your own website or blog. In fact, WordPress powers over 29% of all the websites on the Internet. Yes – more than one in four websites that you visit are likely powered by WordPress. On a slightly more technical level, WordPress…

  • Drupal

    Drupal

    Drupal is content management software. It’s used to make many of the websites and applications you use every day. Drupal has great standard features, like easy content authoring, reliable performance, and excellent security. But what sets it apart is its flexibility; modularity is one of its core principles. Its tools help you build the versatile,…

  • Angular

    Angular

    Angular is a platform that makes it easy to build applications with the web. Angular combines declarative templates, dependency injection, end to end tooling, and integrated best practices to solve development challenges. Angular empowers developers to build applications that live on the web, mobile, or the desktop

  • How do I make my application secure?

    How do I make my application secure?

    I have worked for many years in a bank. There were 300+ servers providing internet services. Security was a top priority as you can imagine. Every incoming or outgoing communication was carefully inspected and needed authorization. A day the Shark begun to send distress signals. The Shark has nothing to do with the fish. It’s…

  • How do I make my application fast?

    How do I make my application fast?

    When I was at the University, I wrote a programme to analyse data collected by a radar. My programme was quite slow. It needed 30 hours to generate just one view of the data. 30 hours of processing time of an IBM mainframe are expensive, very expensive. Happily I could rewrite the programme making it…

  • Installing Drupal 8 alongside React

    Installing Drupal 8 alongside React

    What do I want to achieve? I want to install Drupal 8 alongside my existing installation of React Application Server. What is Drupal 8 for? Drupal 8 will work as backend for my React application. What is my React application about? It’s about demonstrating the use of React to fetch information about products from a…

  • PHP

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

  • CSS in JS

    CSS in JS

    JSS is a more powerful abstraction over CSS. It uses JavaScript as a language to describe styles in a declarative and maintainable way. It is a high performance JS to CSS compiler which works at runtime and server-side. This core library is low level and framework agnostic. It is about 6KB (minified and gzipped) and…

  • JavaScript

    JavaScript

    JavaScript often abbreviated as JS, is a high-level, interpreted programming language. It is a language which is also characterized as dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based and multi-paradigm. Alongside HTML and CSS, JavaScript is one of the three core technologies of the World Wide Web.[8] JavaScript enables interactive web pages and thus is an essential part of…