Making Software
Dan Hollick created a beautifully illustrated reference manual that explains how the technology behind software actually works.
Read more [www.makingsoftware.com]
Posts tagged with reference
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023
No suprises here: UTF-8 is the most popular encoding for data in transfer and at rest.
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Variadic arguments in PHP
A good overview what you can do with variadic arguments...
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Those HTML Attributes You Never Use
In this article, Louis Lazaris describes and demonstrates some interesting HTML attributes that you may or may not have heard of and perhaps find useful enough to personally use in one of your projects.
Read more [www.smashingmagazine.com]
Modern PHP Cheat Sheet
A to-the-point summary of all awesome PHP features
Read more [front-line-php.com]
Modern PHP cheat sheet
This cheat sheet offers handy snippets that demonstrate cool stuff you can do with modern PHP
Read more [front-line-php.com]
I hate regex
A nice site that clearly breaks down and explains how a regex works
Read more [ihateregex.io]
A DNS record crash course for web developers
Confused by DNS Records? A, CNAME, ALIAS...
— Chris Achard (@chrisachard) October 28, 2019
Me too ?
Let's change that! (cheatsheet at the end)
? DNS Record crash course for web developers ?
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Going deep on UUIDs and ULIDs
Over at the Honeybadger blog, Starr Horne wrote an interesting article on the different types of UUIDs and ULIDs.
UUIDs are and will continue to be the standard. They've been around forever, and libraries are available in every language imaginable. However, new approaches are worth considering, especially as we enter a world that's increasingly run by distributed systems. New unique-id approaches may help us solve problems that weren't prevalent at the publication of RFC4122.
Read more [blog.honeybadger.io]
Glossary of Modern JavaScript Concepts
Don't know what the difference between stateful and stateless is, or what higher order functions are? On the auth0.com site Sebastián Peyrott explains these terms and other modern JavaScript concepts.
Modern JavaScript has experienced massive proliferation over recent years and shows no signs of slowing. Numerous concepts appearing in JS blogs and documentation are still unfamiliar to many front-end developers. In this post series, we'll learn intermediate and advanced concepts in the current front-end programming landscape and explore how they apply to modern JavaScript.
https://auth0.com/blog/glossary-of-modern-javascript-concepts/
Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms
If you're trying to get into functional programming, this is a repo for you!
The goal of this document is to define jargon from functional programming in plain english with examples.
Things about geography, addresses, names and time you should be aware of
There are many falsehoods programmers believe about geography, about addresses, about names and about time.