Tag: web development

LINGsCARS.com – website of the day

LINGsCARS.com deserves some kind of title and reward.  I’m giving it a website of the day award, as I’m still stunned for words.

On one hand, it serves as a painful reminder of how the web used to be back in the 90’s.  It got everything from psychedelic background and auto-played music to animated GIFs and mouse hover effects.

On the other hand, it does stand out from all pastel colored material designed websites of today.  Obviously, a lot of work went into building this thing and … somehow … strangely … it works.

Now, please excuse me while I wipe my bloody tears…

P.S.: Yeah it also took me a while to actually prepare that screenshot.  Full-page image was too large.  Cropping it down significantly brought it down to just under 5 MBytes, after which TinyPNG compressed it to just 1.4 MBytes.

Making “Push on Green” a Reality

Making “Push on Green” a Reality is an insider look at how Google handles continuous deployment.  Very few teams and companies need to deal with such level of complexity, but the overall principals still probably apply.

Updating production software is a process that may require dozens, if not hundreds, of steps. These include creating and testing new code, building new binaries and packages, associating the packages with a versioned release, updating the jobs in production datacenters, possibly modifying database schemata, and testing and verifying the results. There are boxes to check and approvals to seek, and the more automated the process, the easier it becomes. When releases can be made faster, it is possible to release more often, and, organizationally, one becomes less afraid to “release early, release often”. And that’s what we describe in this article—making rollouts as easy and as automated as possible. When a “green” condition is detected, we can more quickly perform a new rollout. Humans are still needed somewhere in the loop, but we strive to reduce the purely mechanical toil they need to perform.

React vs Angular vs Ember vs Vue.js

Following the yesterday’s post on WordPress choosing the JavaScript framework, here comes a rather extensive review of React, Angular, Ember, and Vue.  This one looks at the four frameworks from different perspectives, provides feature lists, and has a tonne of links to external resources for more information.

Web Developer Security Checklist

Web Developer Security Checklist is a good collection of security issues to keep in mind when building web applications.  Not much new in there, but it’s nice to have all of these conveniently gathered in one place.  All items are grouped into a few sections – database, development, authentication, denial of services protection, web traffic, APIs, validation, cloud configuration, infrastructure, operation, etc.