Google Apps Script
Many are already familiar with Google Docs, Drive, Gmail, Google+, and Google Forms. These and other Google products such as Google Keep, ..
Write Once, Read Anywhere with Gluon
“Write Once, Run Anywhere” is a phrase many Java programmers are familiar with. The slogan conveys the cross-platform benefits of Java. ..
What You Need to Know About Blockchain
By now, you have probably heard of Bitcoin. Bitcoin has brought several advancements to the cryptocurrency field. It has spawned other cryptocurrencies ..
The Art of Reading Documentation
As a developer, one skill that you need to develop is the skill of writing documentation—good and reliable documentation. Not only does ..
Peek Inside Websites with Wappalyzer
Have you ever seen a beautiful website and wondered what technologies were used in creating and hosting it? Well, that’s not easy to determine ..
Command-Line Recording With Asciinema
Have you ever wanted to record and share your terminal sessions with someone else? The usual way of going about this is recording your terminal ..
Deploy Easily with Netlify
Deploying a recently completed static website usually comes with challenges, and it can be tedious. Netlify exists solely to help you deploy ..
Build a Static Site with Hugo
With the plethora of tools available to web developers, building a basic website has become extremely easy—taking only a couple of minutes ..
Make Your JavaFX UI Stand Out
If you’ve ever worked with JavaFX, you’ve realized by now that UI controls in JavaFX are highly customizable and make it easy to quickly ..
Build Your First Java Module
With Java 9 slated for release—hopefully—later this month, let’s look at one of its distinguishing features: the module. In my earlier ..
JavaFX: An Overview
Java has always provided APIs for building applications with graphical user interfaces: Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) and Swing are common ..
Basics of Building Predictive Models in R
R, over the years, has established itself as one of the world’s most widely used statistical programming languages and software. R is used ..
Faster and Better with Google AMP
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are fast—because their job is speed. This post is an overview of AMP, and why it matters. AMP is one of Google’s ..
Picking the Right Color for the Job with Gpick
If you’ve ever done some UI work (or any other digital work involving colors), you probably have gotten stuck at some point because you couldn’t ..
Linux: Why You Should Consider Switching
A couple of years ago, I decided to try out Linux, just out of curiosity. I had no intentions of making a switch; Windows had been my primary ..
CSS Grid & Firefox Grid Inspector Overview
The Web has come a long way. Web designers have moved far from hacking HTML tables just to—painstakingly—lay out elements on a webpage. ..
Java JShell: All You Need to Know
As a programmer, you will often find yourself testing code snippets before integrating them into a larger codebase. For this reason, programming ..