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What is React? According to its developers, React is a JavaScript library for creating user interfaces. It is designed to solve one problem: building large applications with data that changes over time. It has had an ultra-fast success lately and is…

There are relatively few books which I have found valuable enough to re-read, and "High Output Management", by Andy Grove, the ex-president of Intel, is one of them. It is my objective in this article to get one Theodoer to read…

Repetition is critical for learning. This article: http://lifeinthefastlane.com/learning-by-spaced-repetition/ outlines how the ideal repetition period is 1 day, 10 days, 1 month, and 3 months after initially learning something to ensure that you remember it. Therefore, when you have something very important to learn…

To celebrate this, I will guide you through the 6 steps required to get an auto-hosted, HTTPS website. With its own TLD domain. For free. Yeah! It should take a few minutes of your time. We will only be using free…

When you build an app where users need to regularly import data from an external source, you are bound to import csv files to populate your database.Often referred as ETL (Extract, Transform and Load), these functionalities are tricky to implement…

Remember the last time you ran the npm install command, and you had time to grab three coffees, learn Russian and read Dostoievski before you could do anything productive? During the installation of a node app, the npm install step is…

Following our introduction to the Electron framework and our demo using Angular with Electron, the Electron experience continues! In this article dedicated to the Windows platform, we will expand on how to associate a file extension to your Electron application and how to…

29th October 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands @Velocity Conf At the last VelocityConf (http://velocityconf.com/devops-web-performance-eu-2015) in Amsterdam, we attended a very interesting talk about waiting phases. You have an app. Everything works, but it's slow and users are bored and some even leave. You can…

A new major version is always exciting: when it comes to one of our favorite frameworks like Symfony, it’s Christmas come early for developers. But is is also worrisome. Will my application break? Will I have to rewrite half of…

Following our introduction to the Electron framework, this article wants to give you the tools to develop and serve a real, complex application to your users, regardless of their platform. To illustrate this article, we enriched our electron-boilerplate repository. You can checkout…