Blog posts about Development

How do you choose a database type for a software project?

Explore the choices of database systems and their unique advantages in this guide. Dive into MySQL, MongoDB, and Neo4j, understanding their use cases and effective data modeling tips. Ideal for software developers eager to optimize data storage and management.

Posted on: October 13th, 2023

database development

Using Caddy for automatic SSL certificates with Cloudflare

Discover the simplicity of setting up SSL certificates with Caddy and Cloudflare in this comprehensive guide. Learn how to integrate the Cloudflare DNS module in Caddy with Docker, create a Cloudflare API token, and utilize your token with Caddy for automatic SSL certificate generation. Say goodbye to the hassle of manual SSL certificate maintenance!

Posted on: September 23rd, 2023

caddy development

How to enable step debugging in PHP with Xdebug 3 and PHPStorm

Learn how to configure Xdebug and PHPStorm to use step debugging with breakpoints in PHPStorm to improve your debugging capabilities. Optimize your development time by following this simple tutorial!

Posted on: December 29th, 2022

development php

Why Caddy might be the best start for your next software project

Do you dread setting up a webserver for your project(s) and do you wish you could skip this altogether and it'll still magically work? Then Caddy might be the perfect webserver for your next project!

Posted on: October 22nd, 2022

caddy development

3 things to do to prioritize new features

Prioritizing is difficult, but there are some tricks to make this easier on yourself. This post contains a few tips to make it easier to choose the next new feature.

Posted on: April 1st, 2020

development

Why documentation is (almost) more important than code

In this post I go over some point why documentation is (almost) more important than code for any application. If you want new people to get up to speed quickly and have them contribute quicker, you might want to document the macro, meso, and micro aspects of your application.

Posted on: February 26th, 2020

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How to optimize your product without blocking progress

In this post I go over how you can optimize your product without blocking progress along the way. A lot of people can get stuck on features that might be meaningless to the product. Through data you can prioritize features and improvements, which will guide your work towards a specific goal.

Posted on: January 8th, 2020

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Why is a simple script often harder to write?

Why is a simple script often harder to write? Find out why it's much more difficult to write a simple script that solves a complicated problem than writing an elaborate solution.

Posted on: October 16th, 2019

development

How to fix CORS headers in a single page application

In this post I'll explain how you can fix CORS headers for usage in a single page application. I give code examples with comments for Nginx and Apache.

Posted on: September 27th, 2019

development

Open source contributions (September 2019)

In this post I explain which open-source project I contributed to in september of 2019. It's been a very interesting month and I've learned a lot of new things.

Posted on: September 25th, 2019

open-source development

My recent open source contributions (August 2019)

Recently I've been quite active with contributing to open source projects on GitHub. Find out which packages I've contributed to and which packages of my own I've been maintaining.

Posted on: August 15th, 2019

open-source development

How to Pick Right Configuration File Type for Your Project

Find out which file types I use for certain scenarios and which situations suit a specific file type best. We’ll dive into JSON, YAML, XML, and dotenv.

Posted on: April 4th, 2019

development

How to generate a sitemap

Find out how to generate a sitemap for you website and how to submit this to Google Search Console. You can do this by hand or automatically, let me show you.

Posted on: March 29th, 2019

development seo

Improving development hiring

When applying to development jobs, you're often asked to do a coding test to prove that you know what you're doing. I think this is terrible and here are better

Posted on: January 25th, 2019

development

Development sprint workflows

During development sprints, you plan work that needs to be completed by the end of the sprint, and you try to leave some extra room for bugs that might occur and need to be fixed. This post describes how I plan to use time more efficiently and to keep developers focused on their task at hand during sprints.

Posted on: November 5th, 2018 medium.com

development

How I reduced the runtime of a Cronjob by 94%

We all need Cronjob for certain automation tasks, but sometimes these tasks take so long that they become a huge burden to you and your ecosystem. I had a Cronj

Posted on: April 26th, 2018

development

Build bridges with API based application structures

There is nothing more fun than working with API's during my work day. It's programming like any other day, but it's also so much more! It's connecting other ser

Posted on: August 12th, 2017

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