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The making of the WWSD videos original

by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

We published a fun series of videos as a promo for our Black Friday sales. These videos are inspired by the more recent apple announcement videos. Let's take a look behind the scenes to see how they were made! The WWSD videos We used WWSD to name our week of Black Friday discounts. It stands for…

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The value of a good database design

tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström

You might think that the way your store your data isn't really that important. Well it's more important than you think it is. A good database design just like good clean code is the key to performance, not only for the end user but also for you the developer. A poor database model just like poorly written code will slow you down and furthermore it will slow your database queries down which results in a slow application.

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Building a simple dashboard using Tailwind original

by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this stream, Shruti Balasa show how powerful Tailwind is. She builds a simple dashboard layout in only a couple of minutes. If you want to learn more about Tailwind, consider buying a ticket for her online workshop at Full Stack Europe. You can get a 20% discount for Shruti's workshop by using…

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