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How To Create Professional Websites Effortlessly with Jimdo
In this tutorial, you’ll how to create professional websites within minutes using Jimdo. We’ll show you how to use Jimdo’s drag-and-drop builder, and also Dolphin, Jimdo’s AI website builder. With these tools, business owners and freelancers can easily set up their own websites, even without any coding experience. Most business owners and professionals need websites for their products and services. However, building one from scratch is a costly and challenging endeavor.
How to Learn Quickly: 10 Proven Ways to Master Any Skill
In this article, we’ll cover ten proven methods for mastering any skill. You’ll learn how to learn quickly, supercharge your personal growth, and stand out from the crowd without having to spend every living minute bent over text books. One Key Skill What would you say if I told you there’s a skill that could benefit anyone, any place, any time? Something that would accelerate your progress no matter what career path you chose, indifferent to technological disruptions?
Expand Your Engineering Skill Set Without Quitting Your Job
The world is moving at a fast pace with innovations in technology every year to tackle all kinds of challenges. Companies are regularly updating and improving their products to meet these challenges and are looking to recruit new talent. Are you looking to participate in newer projects within your company? Are you looking to switch employers or careers? Do your skills match the job description? If they don’t, but you’re keen to explore new possibilities, read on.
Why Managers Refuse Developers the Rewards They Deserve
In this article, we’ll explore five reasons managers refuse to give developers the rewards they deserve, and what you can do about it. The Problem Outlined The harder you work, the less you’re rewarded. Your co-workers aren’t pulling their weight. They do less work, but it seems like they’re receiving more and more rewards. You’re running circles around the slackers on your team, but your manager doesn’t seem to care. How is this fair? It’s completely unfair.
Setting Up VS Code Remote Development for Free on Amazon EC2
Remote development is simply development on a remote server. An SSH connection is made from your local machine to a server in the cloud. SSH stands for secure shell or secure socket shell — a protocol for securely communicating between two computers via a terminal. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides scalable computing resources to build applications (servers) without needing to handle the responsibilities of managing a physical computer.
Creating a Portfolio to Showcase Your Engineering Abilities
Portfolios have been used to promote graphic designers, photographers, graphic illustrators, and artists, but they can be just as useful to software engineers and developers. A software engineer is not just someone who writes code all the time. More often than not, software developers hail from different professional backgrounds and career tracks, and are passionate about a lot of things.
Flexible API Design: Create Hooks for Your PHP API Pipeline
Designing application programming interfaces (APIs) can be a challenging endeavor. Good APIs have simple interfaces that are straightforward and easy to use. Behind this simple interface can be many complex system interactions, and those interactions can really muddy the waters of an otherwise clearly defined endpoint task. Over time, developers may be asked to “tack on” additional business logic for existing endpoints.
How to Get Started with Automated Email Marketing
Automated email marketing is the best option for sending personalized messages. Thanks to automation workflows, you can send personalized offers to customers at the relevant time, laying the groundwork for increased revenue.
Teaching as a Side Hustle for Engineers
Even if you’ve only progressed a short way into your development career, your knowledge has value to others. There may be people who know far more than you, but there are always more who are yet to acquire the skills you currently possess. And only a small percentage of those who know as much as you or more can efficiently document that expertise or pass it on to others.
What Is a Boolean Data Type, and What Are Some Uses?
Learn what the Boolean Data Type is, and how to use it in programming. This article details the definition of a boolean data type and explains its use in programming languages such as Python. There are also examples of boolean operators that will be useful when understanding boolean logic and conditional statements. What is a boolean data type? In computer programs, there are three types of data: text, numbers and booleans. A boolean data type is a value that can only be either true or false.
5 Streaming Platforms That Let You Control Your Own Content
The easiest way to livestream to millions of users is to use social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or Twitch. These platforms are great for brand awareness, but give you limited options when it comes to content ownership, audience access and monetization. The best way to livestream is to build your own platform where you can invite viewers to watch.
5 Ways to Undo Mistakes with Git
No matter how experienced you are, the craft of software development cannot be practiced without making mistakes. But what separates the average from the great programmers is that they know how to undo their mistakes! If you’re using Git as your version control system, you already have a host of “undo tools� at hand. This post will show you five powerful ways to undo mistakes with Git! Discarding Some of Your Local Changes Coding is often a messy process.
No-code for Enterprise: Opportunities and Challenges
No-code and low-code development platforms allow non-programmers to create apps without writing any or much code. They often consist of graphical user interfaces that write application code automatically behind the scenes. Over the past couple of years, no-code development has taken the IT industry by storm. According to Gartner, 80% of technology products and services will be built outside of IT by 2024.
Build Your Own Subscription Blog with Shopify
In this article, I’ll show how to build a paywalled blog with Shopify using HTML, CSS, and Liquid (Shopify’s template language). Even though Shopify’s blogging features are somewhat basic, and there are other online services that specifically help bloggers to set up blogs that readers can subscribe to for a fee (such as Ghost), I’ll explain why you might rather use Shopify. Huh? Shopify for content? Why? Shopify is arguably leading the ecommerce space.
What is GitHub Copilot? An AI Pair Programmer for Everyone
Programmers spend a lot of time writing code. Tools like code editors can help us along with syntax suggestions, snippets, debugging suggestions, and so on. But what if we had a tool that used artificial intelligence (AI) to help us write much more substantial portions of code? That’s what GitHub Copilot is all about. I was recently scrolling through Twitter when I saw this tweet from the official GitHub account: Meet GitHub Copilot – your AI pair programmer.
8 Things You Didn't Know a VPN Can Do
VPNs are an essential part of protecting your online privacy, and nowadays it’s common to hear of people using them. Ten years ago, if you’d asked the average person about VPNs, they’d probably have had no idea what you were talking about. With the rising popularity of watching US Netflix in other countries, many less computer-savvy people have found themselves learning about VPNs to view this geo-blocked content.
4 Trends for Modernizing An Online Booking System in 2021
This sponsored article was created by our content partner, BAW Media. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Consumers expect modern, intuitive, and convenient solutions to everyday problems and situations. Like making appointments, booking reservations, and signing up for events. As antiquated solutions like phone-based reservation systems and basic contact forms grow more and more out of favor, what exactly do consumers want in 2021?
A Beginner's Guide to NFTs (Non-fungible Tokens)
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have far more scope than what they’re currently popular for — that is, unreasonably expensive pieces of digital art. Their true power lies far away from the realm of Christie’s and Cryptopunks — so far, indeed, that it’s astonishing this is all the mainstream knows about what we can call NFT 1.0. Before we talk about the different NFT versions, let’s first understand what they are.
Web3: A New Web for a New World
Ever since humans have stood on two legs, we’ve been unable to trust each other. We’ve always needed intermediaries — people who make sure those on both sides of an agreement honor their commitment. Intermediaries today include banks, who forward our money; lawyers, who forward our arguments and demands; and social networks, which forward our messages. The reason for this high level of intermediation is a total lack of trust. It’s hard to trust someone when you can’t tell what they’re thinking.
7 of the Best Code Playgrounds
A variety of front-end code playgrounds have appeared over the years. Most offer a quick and dirty way to experiment with client-side (and sometimes server-side) code then share it with others. Here’s our look at seven of the best.
Drowning in Tools in the Web Development Industry
Every once in a while in this industry we need a reminder that our trade as front-end developers — and I say this in the most positive way possible — can be a frustrating thing. A few years ago when I mocked the number of frameworks and libraries that were proliferating at the time, and poked fun at the manner in which they were being presented, that whole concept seemed to strike a chord with everyone in the industry.
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