Combine ideas, don’t get religious, tell, don’t ask, and more — Table of contents: Think Before You Code Understand the Business Behind Every Project Find Someone With a Different Coding Style and Discuss it With Them Don’t Get Religious Learn and Read on a Regular Basis Dig Deeper For More Knowledge Participate in Forums, Teach, Share Knowledge Be Willing to Rewrite Your Own Code…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…