When we think of website and software design, we still think of laptops. Yes, we’ve got all the handy gadgets. We never part with our smartphones, be they Android phones or Apple’s iPhones and iPads. Still, when we want to do something seriously, we boot up that laptop and get …
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Start experimenting with ten mental models you can use to get unstuck, look at difficult problems from new angles, verify your assumptions, and understand systems more deeply. How do you quickly recover when you’re stuck in a rut? Naturally, you could sit down and brainstorm solutions. Unfortunately, it may take …
It wasn’t so long ago that meetings were primarily held in person. Much to the chagrin of many web designers (myself included), remote get-togethers weren’t widely embraced by clients. What a difference a few years makes. Meetings were slowly trending towards remote platforms. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Suddenly, Zoom …
The following article is an excerpt from PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 7th Edition, a hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles, and techniques needed to build a professional web application using PHP and MySQL. In this final tutorial in the series, you’ll learn how to take information …
One of the characteristics of JavaScript that makes it well-suited for functional programming is the fact that it can accept higher-order functions. A higher-order function is a function that can take another function as an argument, or that returns a function as a result. First Class Functions You may have …
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