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 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 | 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 | Jan 19, 2016 | Code, Cool Tools, Web Application Development
As developers, the integrated development environment (IDE) we choose to use is both incredibly important and something none of us really think about. The former because it truly helps us write code quickly and efficiently, predictive text, code scanning, syntax...
by Sourcetoad | Dec 1, 2015 | Cool Tools, Web Application Development
The nice thing about using Heroku is that it is very simple to deploy. Just git push Heroku master. There are, however, just a few simple bad practices to eliminate. For instance, it’s important not to store configurations in your code. Also don’t assume...
