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Book Review of JavaScript: Novice to Ninja by Darren Jones
JavaScript is a tricky language that has proven immeasurably powerful over the past decade. This book published by SitePoint offers inexperienced developers a chance to truly understand how JavaScript works and what makes it tick. JavaScript: Novice to […]
Book Review: Building JavaScript Games for Phones, Tablets, and Desktop
Who doesn’t love the idea of creating their own video game? It’s a fun project that grants incredible freedom with loads of opportunity at every corner. Unfortunately the world of programming and game design is dense. This is […]
Book Review: Drupal for Designers by Dani Nordin
With Automattic’s WordPress dominating the CMS market it can be tough finding the courage to pick up Drupal. It is great and open source, but also tough for a beginner. But since Drupal for Designers is aimed at […]
Book Review: Flask Web Development: Developing Web Applications with Python
The open source Python framework Flask is a quiet yet popular choice in the dev community. It comes with all the standard features you’d expect in a framework; in fact it’s actually quite small, and many features are […]
Book Review: Docker in Action by Jeff Nickoloff
Very few web developers understand the power of Docker. It can be very complicated, but it performs a simple task. It creates a unique virtual container environment for any website, and this container can be moved across any […]
Book Review: Learning WordPress REST API
There’s been lots of hubbub surrounding the WordPress REST API which initially started as a separate plugin, but quickly grew to be part of the WordPress core. It’s not finalized yet but this merger with the core codebase […]
Top 10 TypeScript Books For Web Developers
In a recent article we covered the immense value of TypeScript in great detail. It’s one of the best web languages that’s not really a language. TypeScript is actually a superset of JavaScript. All TS code will compile […]
