JavaScript
Simple Git Ignore File For NodeJS
Here's a simple gitignore file that I start with most NodeJS projects.
Blog
Insights, guides, and deep dives from the Enterprise Software Academy team.
Programming
6 Tips For Better Handling Traffic Spikes
As a software developer, and technology manager, I've had a lot of experience in the past with variable website traffic. In the past, I've worked on business to consumer information websites, I've worked on payment gateways and even on a few ecommerce sites.
Programming
How to query Lightning Components Using SOQL
One of the most beautiful things of the Salesforce platform is that almost everything can be queried. Lightning components can be queried pretty easily.
Programming
My favourite debugging techniques
I believe that debugging is one of the most important technical skills a developer can have. In the average week, I probably spend anywhere from 20 - 30 percent of my time debugging. This is because my code isn't perfect, sometimes it does legitimately only work on my machine or device.
Programming
Joining Caddle
As a software developer, I’ve always been interested in working on things that I could potentially use and benefit from. For a…
Programming
What does data do?
As humans, we use data every day. Sometimes when we use data it's completely subconscious - we don't even realize we're doing it. When we count the number of emails in our inbox, we can predict just how busy our day is going to be.
Programming
What is the minimum should one know to get a job as a backend developer?
Backend developers work primarily on the server side of development, typically any scripts, databases, or architecture. Code written by backend developers typically helps communicate database information to the browser or mobile app.
JavaScript
How to replace jQuery with Vanilla JavaScript
As a programmer, and technology manager I think it's really important to use the right tools and technologies. There are times where I think jQuery is still really valuable but there are a lot of times where I don't think it is valuable.
Programming
5 Best Practices for Designing RESTful APIs
Over the years, I have been really blessed to work on a number of API developments and to be able to consume…
Book Review
Book Review: JavaScript: The Good Parts
Although, JavaScript: The Good Parts is nearly ten years old I would argue it’s still a pretty good book to read. Literally,…
JavaScript
10 Tips to Become a better Node.js Developer
It’s no secret that I absolutely love JavaScript and Node.js. For those that don’t know Node.js is a framework that is built…
Cloud Computing
5 Reasons to Use AWS Lambda
In late 2014, AWS Lambda launched and has grown in widespread use since then. AWS lambda is a serverless computing technology which…
Programming
Why I love VSCode
I’ve been programming for a long time, and I’ve tried a lot of editors over that time. As a developer, I believe…
Programming
What is ORM?
Most software projects need to talk to a database at some point – they usually do GET queries for data, update a…
JavaScript
5 Tips for Finding Amazing React Components
One of the most important parts of building scaleable systems quickly is to find work that others have done and use it…
Programming
What are Design Patterns
Design patterns have been around for a long time in software development. Design patterns are basically a standard approach to solving a…
JavaScript
5 Reasons to Use Node.js on Your Next Project
JavaScript has forever changed the way that websites are built. Even in it’s early days, it was being used to validate forms…
Cloud Computing
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is basically using servers whether they be for databases, storage, application or something else through the internet. There’s quite a…
Programming
Everything You Need to Know About Salesforce Relationship Types
When building a database it's so important to build the right relationships between database tables. What this means is that when we're creating relationships between objects is that we're deciding how they will be associated with one another. Salesforce has a very similar concept, which shouldn't really be a surprise considering there's a database powering the entire thing!
Programming
Get Record Id in Lightning Web Component
Once you know how to do it, getting the current Record Id in a lightning component or lightning aura component is pretty easy. We simply need to implement the force:hasRecordId interface in the lightning component.