code

Procedural Generation and Possible Worlds

Embark on a journey into the world of procedural generation, and learn the most basic fundamentals of how games like Minecraft or No Man's Sky generate their vast worlds.

raspberry

GitLab on Raspberry Pi

Since GitHub was acquired by Microsoft, you may have been a bit uncertain about the future of your repos. This short guide will teach you how to make sure they stay accessible and available at all times.

documentation

Writing as Software: Technical and Automatic Documentation Generation

This article explains the increasingly close interplay between technical writing and programming, and reviews some common documentation generation systems.

react

From CMS to WAF: Combining WordPress JSON API and React

With PHP 7, Wordpress 4 has now become a respectable backend framework. Follow Adam as he descends into this rabbit hole and maps it out.

devops

A Docker-Compose PHP Environment From Scratch

Containers are here to stay. If you're one of those developers who've been avoiding them but eventually found themselves forced to adopt the gospel of Docker, here's a quick guide to get you started.

react

React, Reactor, and No. More. Passwords.

Our example is an interesting admixture of React and Reactor (via Spring.io's new WebFlux architecture). We get "reactive" with React™'s clientside reaction to change and the backend's new functional programming, non-blocking, and high-concurrency Java Spring WebFlux dependencies.

php

Using MS SQL with Dynamic Ports in PHP 7 with ODBC

What happens when you run across an unholy combo of a stack which makes no sense, but you're forced to work with? Here's how to handle a PHP + MSSQL combo with legacy code considerations.

php

Fine-tuning Arrays in PHP7

As PHP evolves, its integral parts are becoming more and more powerful. Being one of the most important data types, Arrays certainly aren't excluded from that progress. Keep reading to see how working with Arrays has changed together with PHP.

react

React Baby Steps V: Is React Native for You?

If you don't have iOS and Android skills and you'd like to start developing for both platforms, this article will explain whether React Native should be your tool of choice.

react

React Baby Steps IV: Testing React-Redux

Testing is a topic that can be as simple or as hard as you want to make it. I decided to stick to my favorite, the KISS approach, and test only what is reasonably tested by the developer, and leave the rest to the (this time fictional) QA team.

react

React Baby Steps III: Idiomatic Redux

Once you've had your first Redux experience, you may wonder how to do it properly. This blog describes the next step towards perfection, by taking you through several architectural decisions.

react

React Baby Steps II: The First Taste of Redux

Once you've been wrestling with React for a while, you start yearning for better state management, where you don't have to pass props that much. Redux to the rescue... sort of...

react

React Baby Steps

If you have only vanilla JavaScript/jQuery knowledge and want to learn modern JS/React, this article will help you get started by providing you with an overview of the best sources and tutorials.

javascript

Quantum Computation: Just a Taste With Python and JavaScript

While quantum computation still smacks of being futuristic science fiction magic, it's nevertheless beginning to enter into mainstream programming in the here and now.

drupal

The DateTime Range in Drupal 8

Managing dates presents a challenge in web applications, such as the storage and display of dates and times in different timezones. Events have start and end dates, some may be all day or repeated. How to do it right?