by Sourcetoad | Aug 30, 2016 | App Development, Cool Tools, Web Design
For those of you unfamiliar with pattern libraries, I’d recommend reading Paul Boag’s excellent blog post on the subject. Basically, a pattern library is a type of style guide for a software application; usually a large web project. They’re essential...
by Jun | Aug 26, 2016 | App Development, General
We recently received a ticket for a project requesting phone number validation in some forms. Seems like a simple enough problem to solve, right? Well, it’s not. Even with existing libraries that claim to handle phone validation, the more general the validation...
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 Justin | Jun 27, 2016 | App Development, Cloud Services
Sourcetoad develops many different types of applications for many different types of customers. Many of our projects are never intended to be used by vast numbers of users. They are either specialized tools to assist in business functions for clients or are focused on...
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...
