In this challenge, you will make use of Python’s expansive functionality and practice with Python file handling methods and Bash in Python. Hints are given but you should also consider this a challenge to find useful documentation of Python modules and Bash methods. Paste the starter code below into a…

Including AWS credentials in AWS Toolkit in IntelliJ can be confusing and take way more time than it should. It’s easy to run into confounding error messages about invalid credentials, but here’s how you can get your Toolkit profile to finally load correctly. Inside the boilerplate config file that comes…

The choices of free web hosting for a React developer to make a personal brand website, with a custom domain, can seem varied to the point of confusion. And many of the common choices (GoDaddy, BlueHost, etc.) …

Redux middleware can provide a React app with the ability to transcend React’s effective but potentially problematic way of passing props and data state among different components according to a strict hierarchy. …

Ruby on Rails provides a massively functional framework with routes and basis for data storage, but Javascript can really get an RoR app moving down the tracks. Some of the benefits of using JS with a Rails app include responding to a wide variety of events on rendered pages, as…

I recently developed an app for a client who needed it online quickly. I ultimately deployed the app on Heroku. Overall, Heroku’s instructions for deploying an app ended up being pretty straightforward for someone new to app deployment such as myself (really make sure to preview all Heroku docs and…

It seems like every major website, such as Facebook or Uber, has a way to access the public files of its API, or specific APIs, such as Amazon’s API for developers to show it’s projects, and each of these websites usually provide developer guides. …

Maybe you’ve been lucky so far. The main computer you code on has never crashed. Nearly all of your code is in repos. However, the little crash demons are always there, ready to wipe out the project changes you’ve been working on, the apps you need to do your work…

You’re jamming on your first Rails project and the web awaits a new Rails app to be born! Here is some advice you may find quite useful along the way. Being DRY to the Bone The marked-in-stone rule of DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) is never truer than in creating the models for a feature in…