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10 Best Productive Tools for Web Developer. – DEV Community
It takes time to build an appealing and functional website. Web developers are dedicated to delivering fast, reliable, and high-quality websites. Thus, to improve our productivity, we need tools that help us provide the best quality software and make our lives easier at the same time. In this article, we will discuss tools that can be used to improve our productivity and manage some of the challenges we face in web development. 1. Animista Animista is a great tool for creating custom CSS animations with various effects. Customize any animation in their collection, including a background, exit, text, etc., with their diverse effects. Once you have done that, you will be able to find the code to create the animation. Then you can integrate it into your website. 2. Responsinator Responsinator is easy to use and free. The tool shows you the most popular screen sizes and shapes for your webpage when you enter the URL of your page. 3. ExtractCSS By using this tool, you can extract elements’ id, class, and inline styles from an HTML document and output them as CSS stylesheets. The Meta Tag is a tool for debugging and generating meta tags for any website. If you use Meta Tags, you can edit and experiment with your content, then preview the way it appears on Google, Facebook, Twitter, and more! 5. WhatRuns With this tool, you can check out other sites’ themes, plugins, and server information. WhatRuns is compatible with Chrome and Firefox. 6. Grabient For creating linear gradients for your website, Grabient offers an easy-to-use UI. Choose your color and adjust the angles as...
React Native Store Locator App Template | Download | Instamobile
Launch the next Yelp in minutes Download this gorgeous React Native Store Locator app template to create your own store finder app in just a few minutes. By using this fully-coded starter kit written in React Native, you’re saving weeks of design and development and can focus on other important efforts such as customer engagement and marketing. This React Native app template is cloning Yelp functionalities, such as categories, store listings, reviews, ratings, and filters. Everything is already wired to a Firebase backend, so your app will work end-to-end. You can literally launch your app today to both Google Play and App Store. At Instamobile, we help developers and entrepreneurs launch high-quality mobile apps quickly, by providing the boilerplate code that’s needed for most of the apps. With beautiful designs & highly modularized code, we build fully functional features enabling our customers to develop iOS and Android apps much faster. With this business directory app template written in React Native, you can list anything within your own mobile app: shops, restaurants, coffee shops, bars, pubs, gas stations, hair salons, shopping centers, handymen, apartments, hotels, movie theaters, parks, tourist attractions, museums, local businesses, etc. You can basically add any point of interests (POI) that could be placed on a map, without a single line of code. App Previews Main Screens All the features are working entirely, end-to-end. All the data is dynamically retrieved from the server, so you don’t need to re-submit the app when changing it. Other benefits Download our React Native starter kit to make your own Foursquare, Swarm or Yelp clone apps in just a few minutes....
Cross-Platform vs. Native Mobile App Development
At present, you will come across lots of applications intended for numerous smartphones across the globe. There are two methods of , namely, cross-platform and native, and it is vital to figure out which one will be appropriate for you. Below, we have talked about both of them, including their benefits and drawbacks. What do you mean by Native App Development? At times, we use only one platform, and in such cases, native app development will be appropriate for us. This can be achieved by using some specific programming languages and technologies. For instance, Swift or Objective-C has to be used for developing an iOS application. On the other hand, Kotlin or Java can be used by Android programmers. Native app development tends to bother startups mainly because of their high expenses. However, apart from providing improved performance, native apps are also known to provide excellent UX. Pros of Native App Development 1. Better support for the store A native app is known to deliver enhanced speed and performance, and therefore, it can be published easily and ranks quite high on the app store of the platform. 2. Are more secure The data of the users will be protected, thanks to the development of a native mobile app. 3. Extensive functionality It will be possible for the developers to use the app in various ways. Every API that the platform provides will be accessible to you. 4. Enhanced scalability The tools available are quite flexible, which makes the apps created for the native environment more scalable. Cons of Native App Development 1. Consumes a lot of time In case...Why Cyber Security is an Opportunity and Not a Threat in Bristol
Bristol-based businessman Brett Edgecombe, Director at 101 Data Solutions, says it’s more important than ever to cultivate a new generation of cyber security talent to protect our digital future, with Bristol being an excellent place for people to start their career in this industry. The recent DCMS Annual Cyber Sector Report, which assesses how the UK’s cyber security industry has performed, highlighted Bristol’s role. In the report, Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries said: “Cyber security firms are major contributors to the UK’s incredible tech success story. Hundreds of British firms from Edinburgh to Bristol are developing and selling cutting-edge cyber tools around the world that make it safer for people to live and work online.” Brett Edgecombe, Director at 101 Data Solutions, believes that Bristol could be the UK’s cyber capital owing to its highly skilled workforce, top research universities, and thriving software development industry: “While many careers are characterised by fluctuating demand, cyber security and jobs throughout the data protection industry are seeing strong growth. Moreover, it’s expected to have one of the fastest growth rates in the future. That makes it an excellent choice for a career and one I would encourage more people to explore. “We know Bristol has a thriving startup environment, and we are seeing an increasing focus on cybersecurity. Our city has many security-related startups with lots of cybersecurity experts and entrepreneurs in the city keen to collaborate. Bristol is leading the way in cultivating a new generation of cyber security talent, which is excellent news that Bristol can not only survive but thrive in a time of economic uncertainty. “In the coming years,...BrainBox AI brings machine learning to building controls | VentureBeat
Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more Having spent more than a decade working on smart buildings and energy efficiency for commercial property, BrainBox AI cofounder and chief technology officer, Jean-Simon Venne, sees AI-powered autonomy as the necessary next step in the battle against entropy — and against climate change. The problem with engineering buildings any other way is that efficiency tends not to last, Venne says. “I’ve worked on energy efficiency in large buildings pretty much all over the planet in places like Dubai and Las Vegas. When you’re done with the project, and the building is pretty efficient, you’re happy with the results, and you go away. That’s when things slowly start to degrade.” Improving the energy efficiency of buildings is a global concern, given that, by some estimates, commercial buildings account for about 40% of greenhouse gas emissions. But what happens over time, according to Venne, is that subsystems malfunction, or else they get turned off or misconfigured. Conditions change, and problems not accounted for in the initial design emerge. What’s needed instead is something more like the engineering that goes into a race car, where the initial design is as perfect as the engineers know how to make it upfront, but every few laps during a race, they fine-tune it further for the specific conditions on the track that day, Venne said. His inspiration for a solution that is less labor-intensive than car racing also comes from the world of automobiles — specifically self-driving cars....
Roadmap to Become a Web Developer in 2022 – GeeksforGeeks
Web Developer/ Full Stack Web Developer – How do you feel when you tag yourself with such titles? A long journey takes place to be called by such names. In the beginning, you might feel bored or terrified, but, trust me, this is the most popular and interesting field one should work on. You can also become a web developer provided you know why you want to learn it. According to a study, there are approximately 23 million software developers worldwide and the population growth is going to increase day by day. Now if you don’t know about web development, no worries! All your doubts will get cleared here. Who’s a web developer? Those websites which you scroll to are created by none other than web developers. A person who creates amazing websites for businesses and startups. A full-stack web developer looks after both the front-end and the back-end parts. The front-end deals with how the websites look when delivered to the customers while the back-end stores and processes all the data safely. Also, to bring to your notice, web developers are highly paid professionals. Most Software Developers work as Web Developers. MNCs also hire professionals/freshers based on their interest in web development. No matter what the situation would be web developers will always be in demand and for this, you don’t have to care whether it’s WFH (Work From Home) or WFO (Work From Office). This job requires dedication, patience, and eagerness to learn every day and play with technology. From Big MNCs to startups, everyone needs web developers to see growth in their business. But before we...
ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 4
.NET 7 Preview 4 is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core. Here’s a summary of what’s new in this preview release: HTTP/2 performance improvements Typed results for minimal APIs OpenAPI improvements for minimal APIs Return multiple results types from minimal APIs Route groups Client results in SignalR gRPC JSON transcoding Project template option to use Program.Main method instead of top-level statements Rate limiting middleware For more details on the ASP.NET Core work planned for .NET 7 see the full ASP.NET Core roadmap for .NET 7 on GitHub. Get started To get started with ASP.NET Core in .NET 7 Preview 4, install the .NET 7 SDK. If you’re on Windows using Visual Studio, we recommend installing the latest Visual Studio 2022 preview. Visual Studio for Mac support for .NET 7 previews isn’t available yet but is coming soon. To install the latest .NET WebAssembly build tools, run the following command from an elevated command prompt: dotnet workload install wasm-tools Note: Building .NET 6 Blazor projects with the .NET 7 SDK and the .NET 7 WebAssembly build tools is currently not supported. This will be addressed in a future .NET 7 update: dotnet/runtime#65211. Upgrade an existing project To upgrade an existing ASP.NET Core app from .NET 7 Preview 3 to .NET 7 Preview 4: Update all Microsoft.AspNetCore.* package references to 7.0.0-preview.4.*. Update all Microsoft.Extensions.* package references to 7.0.0-preview.4.*. See also the full list of breaking changes in ASP.NET Core for .NET 7. HTTP/2 performance improvements .NET 7 Preview 4 introduces a significant re-architecture of how Kestrel processes HTTP/2 requests. ASP.NET Core apps with busy HTTP/2 connections...
Service Providers in Laravel: What They Are and How to Use Them | Laravel News
For those who haven’t actively used Service Providers in Laravel, it’s a mystical “term”: what “service” do they actually “provide”, and how exactly does it all work? I will explain it in this article. Default Laravel Service Providers Let’s start with the default service providers included in Laravel, they are all in the app/Providers folder: They are all PHP classes, each related to its topic: general “app”, Auth, Broadcasting, Events, and Routes. But they all have one thing in common: the boot() method. Inside of that method, you can write any code related to one of those sections: auth, events, routes, etc. In other words, Service Providers are just classes to register some global functionality. They are separated as “providers” because they are executed really early in the Application Lifecycle, so it is convenient something global here before the execution script comes to Models or Controllers. The most amount of functionality is in the RouteServiceProvider, let’s take a look at its code: 1class RouteServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider 3 public const HOME = ‘/dashboard’; 9 $this->routes(function () { 12 ->group(base_path(‘routes/api.php’)); 14 Route::middleware(‘web’) 15 ->group(base_path(‘routes/web.php’)); 21 RateLimiter::for(‘api’, function (Request $request) { 22 return Limit::perMinute(60)->by($request->user()?->id ?: $request->ip()); This is the class where route files are configured, with routes/web.php and routes/api.php included by default. Notice that for the API there are also different configurations: endpoint prefix /api and middleware api for all the routes. You can edit those Service Providers however you want, they are not in the /vendor folder. Typical customization of this file happens when you have a lot of routes and you want to separate them in your custom file. You...
20 Mobile App Development Trends of 2021
The Android ecosystem is a highly demanding mobile operating system, with a market share of over 85% and provides more than on the Google App store, ranging from calendars, browsers, social media, games and many other categories of apps. When it comes to , Android is at the top. The apps made for Android devices are user friendly and developers on this platform will continue pushing the envelope in the coming years. Mobile app development trends to look for in 2021 There have been many changes since the adoption of Android, which majorly focus on enhanced user experience. Developers need to continuously evolve the mobile app development services they provide in order to be industry leaders. With the ever-increasing popularity of the apps on this platform, android app development services will see a significant surge, and here we look at some of the most promising trends and technologies that this platform promises to offer in 2021. Instant Android Apps Instant apps let users try the application without downloading them, thus utilizing the web faster. Such apps are helpful for ecommerce businesses and games as they do not take space in the user’s device and reduce unnecessary interruption. The major advantage of such apps is that end users can have access without having to download them, while also providing high quality UI/UX design, larger storage, and compatibility across devices. Blockchain technology The blockchain technology is an app development solution that is completely decentralized, improves transparency, eliminates unauthorized access, and focusses on strong security protocols. Blockchain is the most sought after app development option in sectors which require robust security and...Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Elisity CEO James Winebrenner (Part 1) | Sramana Mitra
Posted on Monday, May 16th 2022 For those of you following our coverage of techies transitioning into successful entrepreneurs, here is another terrific case study. Cyber Security is probably the tech industry’s more prolific segment. James discusses a specific approach to network security that has become increasingly more contemporary and relevant: segment-based policy. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to a bit of your background as well as Elisity. James Winebrenner: I’m the CEO of Elisity. I had been in the security and network infrastructure for about 25 years. I started my career at Check Point software back in the 90s. I’ve been very blessed to have a career looking at a number of different trends in security and network infrastructure. I’ve done stints at Cisco. The last startup that I did from ground zero was Viptela. I stayed on and ran that for about two years. I was anxious to get back to building something again. I had an interesting background on both the network and security side of things. Frankly, that’s where Elisity is focusing. There’s a lot that we learned through the software-defined market evolution around the need for security to be baked into a lot of the infrastructure evolution, specifically, the trends around segmentation and being able to bring segmentation much deeper into the network and make it easier to build privileged access policy around how infrastructure interacts on those network segments. The focus for Elisity is to bring identity-based micro-segmentation into physical networks and extend that into the cloud edge. In doing so, it allows organizations to move away from implicit trust...
How to make a CLI based movie scrapper using NodeJS
How to make a CLI based movie scrapper using NodeJS This guide will instruct you on how to make a CLI application that will ask the user for movie, and present info about that movie in return. To be most successful you should have at least a beginers understanding of Node and NPM. You should also have a basic understanding of using bash to navigate files. Although you are free to use a GUI application if you wish, only terminal examples will be provided. Prerequsites A text editor or IDE of your choice. A terminal that is capable of running bash commands. Part One (Setup Folder & File Structure, Install NPM Packages) First, create the root folder for the project. This guide will call it movie-scrapper. Then navigate into the newly created folder. mkdir movie-scrapper && cd movie-scrapper Within the movie-scrapper directory run the following command. This will create the package.json file. You need to make two modifications to this file. Add "type": "module" to the top level, and "start": "node src/index.js" to the scripts section. It should look like this. (You may have some slight differences depending on your pesoral npm settings, just focus on the changes needed above) {"name":"movie-scrapper","version":"1.0.0","description":"","main":"index.js","type":"module","scripts":{"start":"node src/index.js","test":"echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"},"keywords":[],"author":"","license":"ISC","dependencies":{}} Run this next command in your terminal to install the npm packages axios dotenv and inquirer npm i axios dotenv inquirer You should now see a node-modules directory in your root folder. . ├── node_modules ├── package-lock.json ├── package.json You should also see the newly installed packages listed in your package.json dependcies Now you are going to create a .env...Clevertech: Sr Ruby on Rails Engineer
Headquarters: New York, NY URL: https://clevertech.biz Experience Remote done Right. Over 20 years of remote experience, all 500+ staff are 100% remote and we still grow vibrant relationships, and provide exceptional opportunities for career growth while working with stellar clients on ambitious projects What we’re working on: Enterprise companies turn to us to help them launch innovative digital products that interact with hundreds of millions of customers, transactions and data points. The problems we solve every day are real and require creativity, grit and determination. We are building a culture that challenges norms while fostering experimentation and personal growth. In order to grasp the scale of problems we face, ideally, you have some exposure to Logistics, FinTech, Transportation, Insurance, Media or other complex multifactor industries Experience at scale with Ruby on Rails, Heroku, Redis, Elastic Search and sidekiq queue. (A technical assessment will be required.) You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field. You have back end expertise developing large-scale products in various languages, and solid experience working with SQL databases – bonus for PostgreSQL. You have experience designing and implementing automated test suites for complex applications. You’re organized, you’re resourceful, you are accommodating, and you don’t need to tell people about it. It shows. You can take ownership of a project, fill in the gaps, and ensure production-ready releases. Straight from the Devs Watch short snippets of actual developers (Real, not scripted) share why they joined Why Clevertech is an amazing place to work at At Clevertech, you can expect that you will: Be 100% dedicated to one project at a time so that...
Apple’s head of machine learning quits after being made to come back to the office two days a week | Daily Mail Online
A senior director at Apple has quit his job in protest at the company demanding staff return to the office three days a week. Ian Goodfellow, the director of machine learning, is believed to be the most senior employee to resign so far as a result of the plan. On April 11, the company began mandating one day a week in the office – a requirement that rose to two days on May 2. By May 23, all staff had to be at their desks three days a week. A survey of Apple workers from April 13-19 found 67 percent saying they were dissatisfied with the return-to-office policy, Fortune reported. And Goodfellow, in his resignation note, said he would not do it. ‘I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team,’ he said, according to The Verge. Ian Goodfellow, Apple’s director of machine learning, has quit in protest at their policies forcing people back to their offices three days a week Apples’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, are pictured One Apple staffer speculated that Goodfellow’s departure comes ahead of a potential announcement that the company will increase the in-person work requirement up to five days per week. ‘Everyone and their grandma knows Apple is using the pilot as a stepping stone to 5 days back in office,’ the Apple employee wrote on Blind, which verifies employment through corporate email addresses. ‘Ian probably got inside scoop that this is coming and left.’ The tech news site described Goodfellow as the most-cited expert in machine learning – a type of artificial intelligence, which involves the study...
How to monitor your Laravel application by services (not by hostnames) | Laravel News
Hi, I’m Valerio, software engineer, founder & CTO at Inspector. I decided to write this post after responding to a support request from a developer who asked me how he can monitor his Laravel application by services and not by hostnames. The company is working on a backend API for a mobile app. The APIs are running on a set of AWS EC2 instances managed by an Autoscaling Group. After a thorough investigation into the reason for this request, here is the solution we found. What is an autoscaling group? An Autoscaling Group contains a collection of VM instances that are treated as a logical grouping for the purposes of automatic scaling and management of specific component of your system. In Laravel is quite easy to separate your application in logical components that runs in different servers, like APIs, background Jobs workers, web app, scheduled tasks (cron), etc, so they can scale in and out indipendently based on their specific workload. Every established cloud provider allwos you to configure Autoscaling Groups, or you can use other technologies like Kubernetes. The result is the same: Due to the constant turnover of servers to handle the application load dynamically you could see a bit of mess in your monitoring charts. A lot of trendlines turn on and off continuously, one for each underlying server. Grouping monitoring data by service name It may be more clear to use a human friendly service name to represent all your servers inside the same Autoscaling Group. Since transactions in Inspector are grouped by the hostname, we can use the Inspector library to “artificially” change it...
Nebulab: Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer
Headquarters: Pescara URL: https://vonq.io/3LgHZs1 About us We are Nebulab, the full-service eCommerce agency behind some of the world’s most disruptive digital brands. We specialize in building bespoke eCommerce experiences for international clients across a wide array of verticals, and we lead the development of Solidus, the open-source eCommerce platform for industry trailblazers. We’re a growing team of strategists, designers and engineers with a distributed culture based on continuous learning, radical transparency and tight collaboration. We are bold, detail-oriented and we pursue excellence in everything we do. Through our work, we are raising the bar for what eCommerce looks like. What you’ll do You will design, build and maintain solid Ruby on Rails applications with excellent test coverage. Most of these will be eCommerce applications built with Solidus. Your won’t just write code, you will take part in every step of the process: from going over requirements with your team to discussing business goals with project stakeholders. We love friendly, open-minded people that want to make a difference. We value knowledge sharing and collaboration above everything else: you will always have a chance to propose your ideas and solutions. We’re inspired by open-source values and part of your work will be writing open-source code to make the world a better place. Want to dig deeper? Read more about how we work in our Playbook! Requirements Qualified candidates are passionate about building high-quality, well-tested Ruby on Rails code. They should be able to communicate with both their teammates and clients in a clear, productive and friendly way. We value people that are inclusive, community-driven and want to learn new things and share knowledge....
Ionic vs. React Native: Performance Comparison – Ionic Blog
It’s no secret that Ionic and React Native compete in the cross-platform application development ecosystem. A quick online search will bring up countless articles comparing the two cross-platform solutions. In these articles, advocates for React Native will often lean on performance as the biggest reason to choose one platform over another. Their assumption is that, because React Native orchestrates native UI controls (as opposed to rendering the UI in a browser, like Ionic) then it must be faster. The problem? None of these explanations ever seem to be centered around actual performance metrics. Rather, what the authors seem to fall back on is the perception that React Native is “more native”, and thus it has better performance. Well, does React Native have better performance? We decided to create competing applications, with the same feature-set, and run some of our own tests on the same exact iPhone 11 Pro Max. Let’s take a look at how it played out. Ionic vs. React Native First, if you’re just getting to know Ionic or React Native, let’s briefly summarize how the two are different in terms of their approach and underlying architecture. Ionic fully subscribes to the philosophy of leveraging web technologies to deliver its applications. React Native, on the other hand, also runs using JavaScript (JS), but does so under the guise of orchestrating platform-specific user interface (UI) controls. Both platforms create real native apps with full native access through plugins and custom native code. To learn more about the differences between Ionic and React Native, check out our comparison guide. Boot Time The time that the application takes to load...
