By Fiodar Sazanavets Are you a software engineer who needs to build a fully interactive application with real-time updates? Perhaps you are aiming to write an instant messaging app. Or perhaps you want to receive updates about someone’s location in real time. Or maybe you have a fleet of responsive Continue Reading
Summary of the problems design patterns are intended to solve
This article is a chapter from the book The easiest way to learn design patterns This chapter summarizes which design patterns can be used to solve any specific type of a software development problem. It’s intended to be a reference guide to help you find the right design pattern quickly. Continue Reading
External SignalR clients
This article is a chapter from the book SignalR on .NET 6 – the Complete Guide In the previous chapter, we have covered the basic of using in-browser clients to connect to a SignalR hub. Even though these clients are suitable to cover a wide range of SignalR use cases, Continue Reading
A Quick Guide to Establishing a Business as a Coder
Photo by Christopher Gower on Unsplash. To be successful in running a modern business, it’s important to create easy-to-navigate software tools. Software coding has changed the way people do business and can be crucial for long-term development. It would be important to learn primary coding languages like HTML, CSS, Python, JavaScript, and Continue Reading
Getting your first job as a self-taught programmer
It may come as a surprise to you, but many professional programmers are self-taught. And many of them have been able to reach fairly high positions in their career. Therefore, it is not only realistic to get into the software development profession without any formal programming qualifications, but it’s also Continue Reading
How to future-proof your career as a software developer
The world is changing at a rapid pace. Many jobs get automated away. AI is gradually taking over. Because of this, there are many professions that thrive today that will not exist tomorrow. As a software developer, you shouldn’t worry about technology replacing your job. You are contributing towards creation Continue Reading
The best books to learn Docker easy
Docker is a very popular containerization technology. It makes deployment of complex distributed applications easy. This is achieved by running each individual service inside an isolated environment. This isolated environment has it’s own operating system, but it’s really lightweight. Unlike a virtual machine, it only has those components that a Continue Reading
Why you can get sued for negative online reviews
Virtually every business these days gets reviewed online. And it’s a good thing. If, in the past, you wouldn’t know how good a business is unless you personally know someone who used it, today you can know it just by doing couple of clicks on the web. Of course, you Continue Reading
Building IoT Applications with SignalR
My book, SignalR on .NET 6 – the complete guide, is out now! In this liveProject, you will be developing a public address (PA) system for London Heathrow airport by using Internet of Things (IoT). The system you will build will be able to react to events (such as plane Continue Reading
How to make most of the lockdown (and not become an alcoholic)
COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the normal way of life. Since it begun, “stay at home” orders have been introduced everywhere across the globe. For many people, it was like a kick in the teeth. Mental health issues have skyrocketed. Consumption of alcohol and other drugs has increased. COVID-19 kills. Continue Reading
How to properly form an opinion on scientific topics
Even though we live in the 21st century, a large proportion of world’s population is scientifically illiterate. This especially became apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic, when understanding science became, to some extent, a matter of life and death. This needs to change. If you don’t know how to properly form Continue Reading
Very simple ways to tell if a website is unsafe to register on
Now and again, you can hear news stories about large-scale cyber attacks. Many of those are done to obtain personal data. The cybercriminals can then use it for more targeted attacks in the future. Unfortunately, there is no way to completely insulate yourself from the theft of your sensitive personal Continue Reading
Taking advantage of manipulative social media mechanisms as a user
Social media is built upon powerful manipulative algorithms that can influence behavior of its users. However, it is also a very powerful tool that can greatly aid you in education, building your business, developing your career and exerting your influence in other ways. Even though most of the mechanisms that Continue Reading
Beginning gRPC on ASP.NET Core
gRPC allows you to enable components of your distributed application to communicate effectively with each other and it requires very little code to do so. gRPC is a network communication technology that has been originally developed by Google. It works over HTTP2 protocol and it is primarily used to enable Continue Reading
10 Pragmatic reasons for becoming a software developer
In one of my previous blog posts, I talked about the negative aspects of software development career. The goal of that article was to show that software development is not for everyone. This time, however, I will outline the positive sides of a programmer’s job. I will only outline pragmatic Continue Reading
How to get your first job as a self-taught programmer
It may come as a surprise to you, but many professional programmers are self-taught. And many of them have been able to reach fairly high positions in their career. Therefore, it is not only realistic to get into the software development profession without any formal programming qualifications, but it’s also Continue Reading
What information you must never share with recruiters
Recruiters are great. If you are a qualified professional and are looking for a new job, they make the whole process a whole lot easier than it would have been otherwise. You no longer have to do all the job applications yourself. And neither you have to spend time doing Continue Reading
An easy way to learn design patterns in software development
Design patters is something that you will need to get familiar with as a programmer who works with object oriented languages. And this is primarily because they represent well-defined solutions to common problems. So, instead of thinking through all the details of your solution, you can simply check if any Continue Reading