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What is a binary tree and why would I ever want to reverse it

Link – – frederickvanbrabant.com

Senior CEO Frederick Vanbrabant helps you to answer this horrible interview question.

You have probably already heard the horror stories of code interviews where they ask you to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard. (if not check this blog post that I profoundly disagree with). Well, a few days ago I was in that exact situation. And I had no idea what the interviewer was talking about. So what are these binary trees and why is it so critical that you know how to inverse them? Let’s find out.

Read more [frederickvanbrabant.com]

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Expect quick tips & tricks, interesting tutorials, opinions and packages. Because I work with Laravel every day there is an emphasis on that framework.

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Deep dive: How do React hooks really work?

Link – – www.netlify.com

Hooks is feature was added recently to React that I really like.

In this article, we reintroduce closures by building a tiny clone of React Hooks. This will serve two purposes – to demonstrate the effective use of closures, and to show how you can build a Hooks clone in just 29 lines of readable JS. Finally, we arrive at how Custom Hooks naturally arise.

Read more [www.netlify.com]

React for Vue developers

Link – – www.fullstackradio.com

In the latest episode of Full Stack Radio podcast, my colleague Seb explains the differences between React and Vue.

In this episode, Adam talks to Sebastian De Deyne about learning React from the perspective of a Vue developer, and how to translate all of the Vue features you're already comfortable with to React code.

Read more [www.fullstackradio.com]

SOLID, interfaces and final

Link – – stitcher.io

My colleague Brent started a new podcasts series called "Rant with Brent". In the first episode has explains why he likes the "final" keyword in PHP.

I'm giving podcasting a try. Let me know what you think of it via Twitter or e-mail. You can download the episode here. In this episode I talk about why I think final helps you write better maintainable code.

Read more [stitcher.io]

Read-Writable Regular Expressions

Link – – nasamuffin.github.io

Emily Shaffer makes the case for commenting regular expressions.

It’s probably not a good idea to encourage your coworkers to think critically about what life would be like if you got hit by a bus, but the good news is that you can simultaneously document your regular expression and teach your coworkers some regex basics, if you comment them carefully!

Read more [nasamuffin.github.io]

Improved security with HSTS

Link – – ohdear.app

In a new post at the Oh Dear blog, there's a good explanation how HSTS improves security.

HSTS stands for HTTP Strict Transport Security. It's a mechanisme that allows a website to signal that it should only be reached via HTTPS - the encrypted HTTP - instead of the plain text HyperText Transfer Protocol.

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Short closures in PHP

Link – – stitcher.io

Short closures are coming to PHP 7.4. In this blogpost, my colleague Brent exaplins what they look like and how they can be used

Short closures, also called arrow functions, are a way of writing shorter functions in PHP. This notation is useful when passing closures to functions like array_map or array_filter.

Read more [stitcher.io]

I forgot how to manage a server

Link – – ma.ttias.be

When you don't use specific knowledge or skills, you may find that, eventually, you just forget said knowledge or skill.

Something embarrassing happened to me the other day. I was playing around with a new server on Digital Ocean and it occurred to me: I had no idea how to manage it. This is slightly awkward because I've been a sysadmin for over 10yrs, the largest part of my professional career.

Read more [ma.ttias.be]

Why I prefer React over Vue

Link – – sebastiandedeyne.com

My colleague Seb gives some good reasons why he personally likes working with React over Vue.

Vue is the default JavaScript framework for Laravel apps. Being part of the Laravel community, I often get the question why I prefer React, so I've decided to write down a few standout reasons.

Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]

Optimizing JavaScript packages for tree shaking

Link – – madewithlove.be

In a new post at the madewithlove blog, Geoffrey Dhuyvetters explains how you can organize your code so a bundler can make it as small as possible.

As an author of (open source) packages, I think you have the responsibility to protect the bundle size of your package consumer. When you publish a package that exports a whole range of modules (for example lodash, ramda, date-fns…) you want to make sure the package is exported in such a way that the consumer of your package (mostly bundlers) can optimize size.

Read more [madewithlove.be]