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This infographic illustrates the sea of changes which catalyzed the telecommuting revolution. From the first offices to the first cubicles and the early murmurs of a remote workforce, these are the significant inflection points and road markers which paved the way for a new era o … | Continue reading
Static websites are simple and fast. Automating updates to them can keep them fresh and relevant—the best of both worlds. Find out how to build a full-stack Node.js static site generator, starting by leveraging Express, MongoDB, Heroku, and cron on the back end. | Continue reading
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How can you write your own QR code scanner app with React Native? This tutorial explains how do exactly that using React Native Camera, and also how to augment the user's camera view with the decoded results. | Continue reading
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We’ll explore the application of parameterization and how it relates to mainstream design patterns such as dependency injection, strategy, template method, and others. In Python parameterized, many of these patterns are made unnecessary by the fact that parameters can be callable … | Continue reading
Starting from scratch, the author of this guide examines the various Python interfaces, implementations, and their characteristics. | Continue reading
In a nutshell, declarative programming consists of instructing a program on what needs to be done, instead of telling it how to do it. This approach involves providing a domain-specific language (DSL) for expressing what the user wants. This DSL shields users from messy low-level … | Continue reading
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Python is a powerful, object-based, high-level programming language with dynamic typing and binding. Due to its flexibility and power, developers often employ certain rules, or Python design patterns. What makes them so important and what do does this mean for the average Python … | Continue reading
Overdue receivables are one of the most common and serious frustrations entrepreneurs face–and one of the most easily avoidable. This simple guide runs through proven methods of avoiding the battle with aging receivables. | Continue reading
Python provides many advantages over the traditionally popular VBA scripts for finance professionals looking to automate and enhance their work processes. This article explores how to use Python and finance together via a practical step-by-step tutorial. | Continue reading
This state management tutorial features an Angular app with a Cloud Firestore back end. It also covers stores and services, RxJs, change detection, debugging change streams, building Angular components, and using collections/subscriptions via the Firebase JavaScript SDK. | Continue reading
Your RESTful JSON API may be simple, but even internal users will want a JavaScript SDK package to do all the heavy lifting for them. Why build each CRUD request by hand, or worse, deal with related resources using custom code for every scenario? With the ActiveResource.js ORM, y … | Continue reading
The Elastic Stack is constantly releasing new features, often twice every month, however, there are a series of tedious steps involved during every upgrade. That is why one engineer decided to automate the whole process, using a set of Ansible Playbooks. Learn how in this article … | Continue reading
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World’s worst logo? It’s a distinction that no company wants to claim but a problem that every logo designer would love to solve. In this case study, we swing for the fences with an ambitious logo refresh for the world’s biggest dancercise brand. | Continue reading
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This article explains how to extract, filter, and clean data from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) to make it suitable for further analysis. The PDB bioinformatics database is the world's largest repository of experimentally-determined structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and comple … | Continue reading
If you're searching for the holy grail of bug-free code, this article can help! Exploring monads in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Swift, and Scala, this monad tutorial by Alexey Karasev takes you from category theory to implementing three monads and a sample program in all five langu … | Continue reading
Analyzing user-generated data is anywhere from time-consuming to downright impractical without automatic sentiment analysis methods—but basic models don't always cut it. In this article, Rudolf Eremyan gives an overview of some hindrances to sentiment analysis accuracy and what c … | Continue reading
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Advancements in AI and ML technologies are giving rise to innovative product development opportunities. For project managers, adapting and harnessing these changes into their workflows is paramount. | Continue reading
User experience tanks when sites feel slow. Today's heavier front ends don't help. In this article, Toptal Freelance Front-end Developer Guillaume Breux compares client-side vs server-side and also pre-rendering strategies to help you choose the best option for your own app. | Continue reading
Learn how to build a ĐApp that lets users create their own Ethereum Name Service subdomains for free, in this tutorial by Toptal Freelance Ethereum Developer Radek Ostrowski. | Continue reading
Color is the master key to clear and compelling design communication, but UI designers must learn to wield its power wisely. The Go-To UI Color Guide simplifies core color theory concepts and shows designers how to use color with lightning-quick precision. | Continue reading
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This overview should help you choose between some of the most popular static site generators available today: Hexo, Jekyll, Middleman, and Hugo. | Continue reading
In this tutorial, Deep Learning Engineer Neven Pičuljan goes through the building blocks of reinforcement learning, showing how to train a neural network to play Flappy Bird using the PyTorch framework. | Continue reading
In this article, we'll see how easy it is to perform web scraping using a headless browser. Specifically, we'll see a Puppeteer tutorial that goes through a few examples of how to control Google Chrome to take screenshots and gather structured data. | Continue reading
This article will introduce you to the Crystal programming language and demonstrate how to create a cryptocurrency of your own. | Continue reading
This is a deep dive into deep reinforcement learning. We will tackle a concrete problem with modern libraries such as TensorFlow, TensorBoard, Keras, and OpenAI Gym. You will learn how to implement one of the fundamental algorithms called deep Q-learning to learn its inner workin … | Continue reading
Technical debt is more than just a burden on engineering and customer experience. Its financial effects are real and as profound as traditional financial debt. A clear assessment, rational decision-making and a prudent payment plan are the steps required to mitigate the risk. | Continue reading