Software engineering and personal development
Domain Name System (DNS) is something that we rely on quite a lot. You even got here to read this article with the help of a DNS who helped you find this article on the internet. Knowing what it is and the ways it finds the pages that are shown in a browser can be considered as something quite mysterious, but that does not have to be the case. The author of a lot of great open source projects, Kamran Ahmed, has recently published a short and helpful representation on the basics of DNS.
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Software developers use the words libraries and frameworks very frequently and interchangeably, but they are not the same. Koushik Kothagal, who is a really good programming instructor, with a lot of helpful tutorials, especially for Java technologies, has published a really great video explaining both of these concepts and is really easy to understand and follow.
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If you need something as a way for you to improve your concentration, here is an alternative that may deserve a try.
Noisli is a really cool tool that you can use to help you have more concentration and be able to cancel the outside noises and even avoid the silence that you are and simulate as if you are in nature, just by hearing a lovely chirping bird in your ears. Continue reading
If you are sometimes feeling bored and want to entertain yourself, then rather than aimlessly scrolling in a social media, you can try to learn something new. For example, you can learn something that you have not known that you can do with Ruby: Getting the dates for next Mondays, Tuesdays or any other day of the week. Continue reading
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Hello world!
One of the first things that you are instructed to do when you start to learn to programme, or when you are simply learning a new programming language, is doing something really simple. One of the first steps that you do is print a simple text. As you are reading this, you probably may know which text is the most common and the one that I am referring to. Continue reading
If you are curious to see the first commit that has been done to some preferred GitHub repository of yours, then you do not need to spend minutes just to navigate to that particular commit. You can now see it using a new Chrome plugin. Continue reading
Have you ever wanted to know how a particular user of Github sees his timeline? Who does he follow, and what are the projects that he is starring? You can find out the answers to these questions using a really cool web application. Continue reading
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As one of the most famous languages out there that developers use all the time, knowing at least a few things about SQL can be quite helpful. Of course, you can refer back to one of its online documentations, or check up at w3schools.com, but you may also prefer a quick cheat sheet that you can use to refresh up your knowledge or learn something that you may have not learned before. A relatively new Github repository, at least at the time of this writing, has been created, which has some of the most common SQL commands that you may use in your daily tasks. Continue reading
We spend a considerable portion of our time using a web browser and may sometimes need to get a screenshot of a full page in your browser. I recently learned that Google Chrome has the option to do that without using any additional extensions. In this article, we will see how we can do that.
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Now is the time when new college or university students start their studies. A lot of them may feel a lot of enthusiasm and maybe also have some feelings of fear, as they are not sure what to expect. In dev.to, I saw a developer named Avi Aryan that titled an article about a letter in which he has mentioned 2 advice he gave to someone who is about to start his studies in computer science. It had some really great advice that resonated with me, that I wanted to write about this topic. Continue reading
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