by Sourcetoad | Feb 3, 2017 | App Development
One of the most gratifying feelings an app development team can experience is seeing an app they’ve worked on for months launch and succeed! For anyone who’s worked on an app development team in any capacity, you know exactly what I’m talking about. It’s comparable to...
by Sourcetoad | Jan 24, 2017 | App Development, Programming, Web Application Development
React is a simple, yet powerful, UI library. When it was released in 2013, it offered an alternative to the existing popular monolithic JavaScript frameworks of the time. React’s most important advances are the emphasis on components, one-way data flow, the...
by Jun | Jan 9, 2017 | App Development, Code
I’ve been thinking recently about the naming conventions I use while coding, and I noticed I tend to follow pretty strict naming standards so I don’t have to put much thought into picking a name. While standards are usually good for readability, too many...
by Sourcetoad | Nov 14, 2016 | App Development, Code, Cool Tools
Yii and Yii2 utilize various magic methods within the framework, the implementation of which can be found in the Object class, which most of the framework extends off of. These magic methods __get, __set, __isset, __unset, and __call enforce a set of standards...
by Sourcetoad | Nov 9, 2016 | App Development
Like any dev shop worth its weight, we strongly promote testing of our products. In order to produce a quality product, we need an internal way to ensure a given level of quality is being met. Business requirements lead to tests, the tests lead to the logic, the logic...
by Sourcetoad | Oct 31, 2016 | App Development, Mobile Development
Settings are an important part of any mobile app. A mobile app is nothing without user data, which makes it especially important to ensure settings are never lost. Now, if you are a Javascript developer of any sorts, your first thoughts would be to store these user...
