Feb 5, 2021

Gender Pay Gap — reality or myth? What are the reasons behind the gender pay gap?

There is an objective difference between the average earnings of women and men. How does this difference arise? Is it really only due to discrimination as many militant feminists claim? Or is it related to the different interests of both genders? Let us take a look at some interesting data…

20 Tips to Immediately Become a Better Programmer

Combine ideas, don’t get religious, tell, don’t ask, and more

Programming is not a religion, let’s be open to different solutions rather than searching for a holy grail

Developers definitely belong to a group of very inteligent people, yet, they are able to stuck at thinking paradigms fighting for them no matter what. Whenever I learn something new, or I search for best practices, I find it very difficult to get objective information. Years ago, when I was…

Klondike Gold Rush and Today’s Business on Amazon

The Klondike gold rush brings a lot of interesting connections with today’s business. How to avoid failure, and how to find opportunities that no one else sees.

The Klondike region and gold

In August 1896, an American prospector George Carmack discovered gold in the Klondike region. The discovery was huge, and it attracted the first local prospectors. The flow of information was not that quick as today. The first prospectors have time for mining, building infrastructure, and especially claim the land.

The gold rush starts in San Francisco

The…

Vue.Js API Communication Done Better in an OOP Way

How to separate API communication parts and create a more robust front-end code with Vue.Js.

Article summary

Advantages of the OOP principles
Typical API communication of Vue components
How to separate concerns and make communication more robust
Communication flow
Conclusions & Discussion

OOP principles help make your code cleaner and easier to reuse

I am a big fan and promoter of the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles. They have been in use for several decades, and have already proved…

What Are Code Smells in PHP? An OOP Approach for Cleaner Code

7 tips to spot code smells and write cleaner, safer code, with examples

Motivation

Many programmers gain too much confidence about their code very quickly with the argument “This is how I do it.” And they feel good ignoring the risks. My approach is to follow as many objective rules and best practices as possible. Programming has been improving for decades, and there are…

OOP code structure for web front-end with Vue.Js and TypeScript. Part #1

In my previous article, I wrote about OOP principles for a PHP/Laravel application. It is a little bit easier to design a PHP back-end application because frameworks such as Laravel guide you to do so. However, it is a way more difficult task for the JavaScript front end.

The most…

OOP Principles for Writing Better Code in Laravel Explained

Part 1

A Short story: How I started with Laravel

I used to spend many years with WordPress because my clients wanted a low-cost solution with the ability to update the site themselves. For small companies, that is a typical requirement.

However, as Wordpress was becoming bigger and more popular, more people were building their own plugins. The development started…