by Sourcetoad | Aug 8, 2016 | Cool Tools, Security
If you’ve ever used web platforms such as Uber, Kickstarter, or Elance, then you’ve seen split payments in action. Each of these websites use a type of transactional functionality more broadly known as third party payments. Stripe, Braintree, and Paypal are three...
by Sourcetoad | Aug 1, 2016 | App Development, Cool Tools, Programming
Is PhpStorm the best PHP IDE out there? In my last blog post, I talked about switching from my long-time editor of choice, Coda, to PhpStorm. I wrote about some of the issues I had with the switch. Complicated, and seemingly endless, preference menus made the...
by Sourcetoad | Jul 6, 2016 | Code, Programming
JavaScript can be pretty annoying at times. You would think that with classes implemented in ES6, this would be solved. For me, the most annoying part of programming is typing. So every time I need to call a class member in React, I have to bind the function to...
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...