by Sourcetoad | Nov 24, 2015 | Task Runners, Web Application Development, Web Training
Introduction: A couple projects ago, a client of ours wanted a simple forum system. Nothing nearly as complicated and feature-filled as phpBB or other high grade options. The decision was made to go with Bbii. Sadly Bbii maintainer has yet to convert the module into a...
by Sourcetoad | Sep 21, 2015 | Code, Web Application Development
Yii is an amazing framework. As it has been iterated on version 2 is now out and is quickly picking up adoption. With this comes the need to migrate components, modules, and a whole slew of other logic. This blog is a few pointers that we picked up along the way while...
by Justin | Sep 7, 2015 | Mobile Development, Web Application Development
Many years ago, embedded systems were fairly complex to build. They had extremely limited resources that required specialized operating system development in order to function efficiently. However, with the constantly dropping cost of computing power, the embedded...
by Nick | Aug 24, 2015 | Web Application Development
In almost every application project, the topic of APIs will inevitably come up. A lot of the times, clients with less familiarity in current technology than us dorks are afraid to ask, “What is an API?” If that’s you, you’ve stumbled upon the right article. So stick...
by Sourcetoad | Aug 17, 2015 | Web Application Development
For web and app developers, one question has always been a top concern in the realm of user experience: “How will users navigate within — and back out of — the app?” It’s a question that seems rather simple, but nonetheless has sent some app developers spinning in to...
by Sourcetoad | Jul 31, 2015 | Code, Web Application Development
6 (ES6) introduces some new features that improve upon ECMAScript 5 (ES5) scoping. In this post we’re going to look at arrow function scope, block scope, and two new ways to declare variables in ES6. A solution to ‘var self = this’ A common situation in javascript is...
