by Sourcetoad | Jun 6, 2016 | Design Trends, Graphic Design
As quickly as we threw away our pens, notepads, sound systems, address books, alarm clocks, and anything we could replace with a screen rather that interacting with a three-dimensional object, we ran to the dump to salvage it all. Change is hard, and such a drastic...
by Sourcetoad | Apr 18, 2016 | Programming
Today I’m going to be looking into substring matching algorithms. The benchmark appears to be the Boyer-Moore algorithm. It actually seems to be pretty commonly used for search and replace in text editors. In fact it is said to be the most efficient...
by Sourcetoad | Apr 5, 2016 | App Development, Cool Tools, Programming
I’ve been thinking about micro-services lately as a way to organize projects. I think I understand the concept better when I think of them like dynamically-linked libraries. At first, it seemed inefficient to have different services communicate through...
by Sourcetoad | Mar 14, 2016 | Graphic Design
Logo design is becoming easier and easier these days. You can get a website to spit a logo out in a few seconds, you can buy one pre-made, or you can just use one of millions of icons available online. But ease does not necessarily mean quality. And for every...
by Sourcetoad | Feb 22, 2016 | Database
With the demise of Parse, I had to be receptive to alternatives. Luckily I had already been suggested a contender, PouchDB. Theoretically, the first thing needed is to create a JSON payload with some important data you need to replicate from the client. Now, where is...
