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On his Medium.com site, Adnan Ahmed has shared some of his thoughts about being a modern backend developer in 2018. In it he talks about the current state of backend development and makes some recommendations for those wanting to get started. Web development today is completely different from what it was a few years ago; there are lots of different things that can easily baffle anyone entering into the web development. It was one of the reasons that we decided to make these step by step visual guides demonstrating the bigger picture and to give anyone a clear idea about what they have to follow to be in certain roles in web development. The post starts with a large infographic showing the basic steps and some of the related technologies and concepts to go with them. Following this they break it down into more detail in a text form with summaries attached for each. There are a lot of topics in the list (24 of them) but here's some of the highlights: Learn a Language Learn a Package Manager Standards and Best Practices Security ?Learn about the Relational [and NoSQL] Databases Learning a Framework Caching RESTful APIs Different Auth Methods GraphQL [and Graph Databases] His final recommendation is one that's good for beginners and veterans in the software development world alike: "keep exploring". If you stop learning and stop trying new things you'll stagnate in your own work and career. Challenge yourself to learn something new - a new language, tool or technique - as often as possible and apply it to your work.

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The Delicious Brains blog has kicked off a new series of posts walking you through the deployment of a WordPress site with automated (and repeatable) deployments. Welcome to the first post in a workflow series on deploying WordPress. In this series, we're going to look at how you can set up automated deployments for your WordPress site in a range of different ways. They start off by answering the question of "why" for automated deployments. They make the point that automated deployments can help reduce the potential for human error, increase the reliability of the deployments and have many more benefits. Next they start in on the preparation work, helping you get several prerequisites set up before getting to the deployment process: Setting up the site on an accessible Git repository and having plugins/dependencies managed by Composer Deploying configuration files Disable FTP Access & File Editing Disable Auto Updates The post also includes a section covering the deployment of the database for your application and any other media you might have related to it (images, files, etc).

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.

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In today’s Adobe Illustrator video tutorial I’m going to show you how to create an outdoors themed badge design, featuring a simple mountains graphic and colourful sunset effect using a retro colour scheme. This style of logo is based on embroidered National Park patches, and has become a popular design trend for all kinds of […] The post Video: Retro Badge Logo Design Illustrator Tutorial appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

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