Web development

Coming to grips with a programming universe always takes time. The available ProcessWire documentation, while excellent, doesn’t yield a complete picture of a site’s structure. As I have been asked to explain the philosophy and behaviour of the CMS…

One of the best practices in programming is to separate the container from the content (data). This is based on the principle that if we need to change a data item, this will prevent touching the representation of that item and, vice versa: if we…

Routing is an important part of the navigation logic of a website. Programmers who work in frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony have to code it manually, unlike in ProcessWire, where the dynamics surrounding URLs are built up as templates, which…

Slow Time … It's well-known that there are time thresholds that affect how we perceive work and affect our flow. If a task takes too long to do, we put it aside or drift to something else. For example, in a recent internal project, we were using AWS…

The swagger / OpenApi documentation standard provides an easy way to help developers use your REST API. Python offers multiple modules to help you generate the swagger doc, and though they already make your life easier, there is always room to make…

I strongly believe that if something isn’t tested, then it probably won’t work. On the other hand, since writing tests can be tedious, any tool to help speed up and simplify testing is always welcome. In a recent project, I had to write the back-end…

When a pythonista devoted to Flask finds himself one day forced to use Django, a framework he used to treat with a bit of disdain until then, he realizes that yes, the grass may sometimes be greener on the other side. Riziq tells us his story:

One of the pillars of user experience is the :hover state; yet, most designers do not consider this state when planning designs. Another important state is :focus: without this specific state, many users would find it practically impossible to…