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Here, you'll find articles to help you improve your web development skills, regardless of whether you're building them with PHP or Go, or need to grow your DevOps skills.
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Validate Dockerfiles With One Command
Tue, Aug 27, 2024

Validate Dockerfiles With One Command

Docker is an excellent way of deploying software. But, how do you know if your build configurations (your Dockerfiles) are valid without building them? In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how.

How to Set a POST Variable From a File When Using Curl
Mon, Aug 12, 2024

How to Set a POST Variable From a File When Using Curl

When using curl, how do you set the value of one or more of the POST variable’s from the contents of a file? For the longest time, I didn’t know. But recently I found out. In this post, I’ll step you through several ways you can do it.

Learning Java as a PHP Developer
Wed, Jul 10, 2024

Learning Java as a PHP Developer

Recently, I’ve started to learn Java, after over 20 years since I first learned it. As a, primarly, PHP developer it’s been an interesting experience. PHP is still easier for web projects. Here are some reflections on why.

Good UI is Worth the Investment
Fri, Apr 26, 2024

Good UI is Worth the Investment

As software designers and developers, how often do we think about — or even put ourselves in the position of — the users whom we’re creating software for? How often have we had to use a poorly designed software (regardless of whether it was a native or web-based app or API)?

Live Reload Go Projects with wgo
Fri, Apr 19, 2024

Live Reload Go Projects with wgo

Building web apps in Go is extremely rewarding. However, as Go’s a compiled language, to see changes, you need to restart the app. Needless to say that’s quite tedious! With live reloading, it doesn’t need to be.

Restrict HTTP Request Methods in Go 1.22
Thu, Apr 11, 2024

Restrict HTTP Request Methods in Go 1.22

Restricting HTTP request methods, when working with net/http prior to Go 1.22 was a little complicated. However, that’s all changed. Now, it’s pretty trivial. In this short tutorial, I’ll show you the new approach.

Go mod tidy - A Quick Introduction
Fri, Apr 5, 2024

Go mod tidy - A Quick Introduction

What is go mod tidy and why you would use it? In this short tutorial you’ll get a brief introduction to what it is and see the essentials of how to use it.


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