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101. Top Reasons to Select Agile Methodology for Mobile App Development January 07, 2019 Mobile app development isn’t easy. While you have to worry about complications that come up during the development process, you also have to keep in mind how well your app could play with your audience. What looks good in the prototyping face may not be all that intuitive to use in practice, and it’s just as important to keep the end user experience in mind as it is to prepare for technical issues or traffic jams in your development pipelines. No matter how well your development process is planned, chances are good that something will go wrong, and that’s where the agile methodology can be suc... (read more) Author: Amit Tiwari

102. What Is An Interface? January 02, 2019 If you plan on doing any back-end development, it's going to be important you know about interfaces. At first they seem kind of weird, but once you understand what they are you'll become more powerful than you've ever been. You'll see interfaces a lot in C# because it doesn't let you inherit multiple classes. That's where interfaces come in. They let you implement the same methods and variables across different classes. An interface is kind of like a list of things that your class has to have. When you use an interface on your classes, you have to write the implementation of the meth... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

103. How to Create an Agile Culture in Your Workplace January 02, 2019 The ever-changing reality of regulations and new advances in technology make it more important than ever before that companies adopt a strategy of agility. Many companies, though, report that they find such a goal to be elusive. What Does an Agile Workplace Look Like? – In an agile workplace culture, there are stable elements that do not change much, and there are elements of the workplace culture that are able to change rapidly and effectively as needed. Each team is provided guidance by their leader that they can act upon each day that has an outcome that moves their dynamic strate... (read more) Author: Amit Tiwari

104. 4 Things That Happen After You've Been A Web Dev For A While December 31, 2018 Doing anything long enough leads to some… interesting side effects. Web development has its own effect on you after you’ve been doing it for a while. See if you recognize any of these. Burnout Ok, this happens with anything but we're talking about web development here. When you have your first dream/nightmare about code or a particularly difficult client, congratulations! You are officially burned out. It doesn’t take long to get here, especially in the tech industry. Juggling 4 projects when 2 of them have overlapping sprints takes its toll on you. You get to the point where you don't ... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

105. Top Challenges in AR Mobile App Development December 27, 2018 The augmented reality (AR) experience is gaining popularity due to the unforgettable experience that it gives most users. Experts predict that by 2022, the AR market will be worth more than $15 billion. Technology companies are tweaking their main products and incorporating AR elements as a way to boost their sales. However, these changes have not been easy to implement because AR is still relatively new and developers are experimenting, trying to find the best way to use the technology. Challenges in AR Mobile App Development 1. Technical A mobile app developer has to consider ... (read more) Author: Amit Tiwari

106. Web Development !== Computer Science December 24, 2018 Originally posted on: https://flippedcoding.com/2018/12/04/web-development-computer-science/ Let's start off strong. Web development is not computer science. They are not the same. Some might say that web development is an application of computer science and that is a bit more accurate but still not totally correct. There are just some major differences between the two that need to be discussed. Computer science is more math and hardware based. If you've taken a CS class before then you know how much math is actually involved. You have to make sure that the algorithm you're des... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

107. Role of Cloud in Successful App Development December 24, 2018 Over time, cloud computing technology has revolutionized the way entrepreneurs, and developers view successful app development. The emerging mobile computing and data analytics trends are set to create apps that will give a high return on user’s efforts and investment. Enterprises around the world need more accessible, more efficient, and faster ways of developing apps that are suitable for enterprise requirements and customer choices, and that’s where cloud app development technology comes in. While today’s enterprises embark on using services on the fly, a handful of them use multi-cloud str... (read more) Author: Amit Tiwari

108. 3 Unrelated Things I Learned Developers Should Do December 19, 2018 There's more to life than writing code or being a technical wizard. Developers should know how to do way more than that or else they won't remain good developers for long. You can strive to have a great career and still be a whole person. Here are three completely unrelated things that every developer should be able to do: Make new hobbies You have to have some other interests in life. Coding is cool, but it's not really something you should be doing 24/7. That's just unhealthy. It's easy to get absorbed into learning as much about web development as you can and it's ok to fight tha... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

109. What is The Future of DevOps? December 18, 2018 A strong understanding of DevOps can help you improve the quality and efficiency of your mobile application development, but the way this promising methodology works is fluid. We can expect to see some pretty radical changes in the coming years, and understanding which way the wind is blowing can help you stay ahead of the competition while also improving the efficacy of your own internal operations. What is DevOps? DevOps is essentially a fusion of software development and information technology operations. By incorporating DevOps into the way your business runs, you get more oversi... (read more) Author: Amit Tiwari

110. Do You Copy And Paste Code? December 17, 2018 You'll be hard pressed to find a developer alive that hasn't copied and pasted code at some point. It might be code from an old project or a snippet from Stack Overflow. And you know what? There's nothing wrong with that. Knowing how to copy and paste code can save you hours of time. Although there is a subtle technique to copying and pasting code and it catches new developers every time. You have to watch out for a few things before you decide to use a snippet from somewhere else. You need to understand the code Hear me out. Even if the code you used worked, you need to know why. S... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

111. Enterprise App Development: Key Trends For Tech Leaders Need To Know December 17, 2018 In this digital age, smartphones and tablets are the future. New applications on a smartphone or tablet are essential to companies’ development and sustainability. As such, it is necessary to understand what goes into the development, production, and rollout of these products, especially in their relationship to common key trends. Once we examine such trends and methods behind each of them, we will be able to create more apps to develop business at a rapid pace. Aspects such as the user-centered app, the free-time employee, and the level of competition in the enterprise app development space a... (read more) Author: Amit Tiwari

112. What is CORS in Azure? December 10, 2018 I was recently working on a project involving blob storage in Azure. There was something keeping me from uploading my file and it took me forever to figure out what blocked it. It was the freaking CORS settings in Azure. So like a good developer, I went out into the documentation to figure out how to fix it. After I got my project blob storage working, I realized that even though I had fixed the problem I still didn't know what CORS really was. Now that I kind of know what it is and what it's used for, I'm going to try to briefly explain it to you. CORS (cross-origin resource sharing... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

113. What are JavaScript promises? Super high level explanation. December 05, 2018 Whether you plan on doing anything asynchronously or not, it's a nice little golden nugget to have the knowledge of how to it in JavaScript. An answer to the async problem comes in the form of promises. JavaScript promises are basically objects that represent the success or failure of some code that's been executed asynchronously. This might not sound like that big of a deal because it's one of those subtle issues that happen in JavaScript. Using event listeners was one way to watch out for async operations, but there are times the listeners will trigger too early and the event will ... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

114. What are Arrow Functions? December 03, 2018 There are so many ways to get stuff done in web development. You have functions, callback functions, methods, arrow functions, and all the other functions out there. The focus for this little explanation are the arrow functions because they're relatively new. Arrow functions became a thing when EcmaScript6 (ES6) was released. They are really similar to regular functions except for a few things. First of all, the syntax for writing an arrow function is a lot more compact than a regular function. Here's what I mean: Regular function function getPrice(cost, quantity) { return cost... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

115. Lead Generation Strategies for Your Successful Business November 23, 2018 Today online entrepreneurs are more conscious to generate online leads but for this purpose they have to work on many areas to get higher business goals. An online business is nothing until it has successful online lead generation strategy to convert the clients. This practice benefits them in such a way that their sale is increased on each coming day and are very consistent to keep continue this operation in coming days. Most of the business owners show their keen interest in mastering the leading generation software so that they can make their strategies more adaptable. Doors of learning a... (read more) Author: Haq Nawaz

116. What is a tuple in C#? November 21, 2018 This isn't something that most web developers know about because tuples aren't commonly used in web development. It's not because they aren't useful because they definitely can be. A tuple is just one of the many good things that gets buried under all of the other good things. So let's dig it up and polish it. To start with, a tuple is a data structure that has a number of elements with different data types. An important thing to keep in mind is that a tuple is a reference type instead of a value type. That means it doesn't store the data in its own memory space. These store the location ... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

117. What Is Polymorphism? November 19, 2018 This is another one of those obscure terms that developers tend to use a lot. Similar to inheritance, it's one of those concepts that is both easy to understand but hard to explain concisely. If you've been trying to find a definition of polymorphism that makes sense, I hope that this will help you. In a nut shell, polymorphism means that you can use the same interface for different underlying data types. A simple example of polymorphism in action is basic math. You can add an integer and a float together and you won't have any problems due to the mismatched data types. The most... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

118. What Is Inheritance? November 14, 2018 If you've gotten into the world of programming, you've probably heard the term inheritance. For some reason, this term is hard for people to explain but easy to understand. So here's an explanation of inheritance that actually makes sense. Think about yourself and your parents. Odds are that you've heard you have certain features that are really similar to your parents. Maybe you have your dad's eyes and your mom's nose. Those are inherited traits. You have them because your parents have them. It's the same in programming. You can have a class that gets properties and methods from an... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

119. Why doesn't my code work November 12, 2018 After you've been writing code for a while you start to notice things. Maybe you have a picture that's a little too far left or the price you're getting for a shirt isn't right. The one skill you have to have to fix those bugs is the ability to debug code. It could be something as simple as a missing letter in your variable name or it could be something as complex as the dll missing something. Even though there are a lot of things that could be wrong, odds are that it is something pretty common. I'm going to give you a few steps you can take to debug code efficiently. Make ... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

120. What's the difference between web development and web design November 07, 2018 People use the terms web developer and web designer interchangeably when they shouldn't because they are completely different professions. The confusion comes from poorly organized projects web developers doing a little web design and web designers doing a little development. In reality, the two work together to make a website. Their roles are just different. Web Developer The developers are responsible for writing the code and making sure that the website will function right. They get the design from the web designer and make it real. Web developers don't have to worry about usabili... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

121. 3 obvious mistakes to avoid when you're learning web development November 05, 2018 Learning web development can be a little tricky. You can learn from so many different sources in so many different ways that it gets hard to decide which one is the best and that's why it's easy to make mistakes. I can't tell you how many times I had to relearn concepts because I learned them the wrong way. The good news for you is that you can save yourself months of time if you know what to avoid doing. What you're about to learn might sound obvious, but those are the things we tend to look over the most. Trying to learn too much at once. You know you need to learn HTML, CSS, and ... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

122. What is a DLL in Web Development? November 01, 2018 At some point in your journey as a web developer, you'll end up doing something with the DLL files. It's really not as bad as it might sound. You just need a little understanding about how they work and what they are used for. First off, DLL stands for dynamic link library. These files just hold instructions that other programs can use to do different things. That means multiple programs can use this same code at the same time in different ways. It saves you a lot of time as a developer. That's how you are able to use different libraries and NuGet packages across all of your projects... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

123. You shouldn't focus on learning JavaScript frameworks October 30, 2018 JavaScript frameworks are incredibly hot right now. You've probably heard of the most popular two: Angular and React. They can really help speed up the development process and they do a good job of separating responsibilities in the code. So why shouldn't you focus on them if they're so great? It's not that you shouldn't learn them. You should just spend more time making sure you are proficient in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript. When you know these foundational web development languages, then you can use the true power of the frameworks. The problem is that many people start le... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

124. What Is Lazy Loading? October 25, 2018 A key skill that every developer needs is smart laziness. It's important to do the least amount of coding to get a function to work because that will help prevent performance and memory issues. That's why we're going to talk about lazy loading today. Lazy loading is a clever concept that can improve page load speeds dramatically. It's pretty simple at the core. All lazy loading means is that your page doesn’t load certain elements until someone is looking at them. You've probably seen this quite a bit. Whenever you go to those websites that have the infinite scroll on the page, that'... (read more) Author: Milecia McG

125. Tackling Change Management: 4 Steps to Business Success October 02, 2018 When it comes to digital transformation, consulting – and adjusting to – the latest developments is the key to business success. There, we’ve said it. Now, moving with the times and staying on top of technological changes may sound simple. After all, you had no problems changing over to the new iPhone, right? Unfortunately, implementing and managing a company-wide change is an entirely different ball game. Not everyone likes adjusting to an unfamiliar system or platform, and it can be a challenge to get each and every employee on board. But by following this four-step approach to change manage... (read more) Author: Helena Ord

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