Nate a web developer at Eastern Illinois University and occasionally adjunct-faculty at EIU teaching some courses in the School of Business. He lives in Champaign, IL with his wife and dogs Indiana ("we named the dog Indiana...") and Bear.
StackOverflow is out with their 2016 Developer Survey. Great data in there, great to see the growth and trends around the world for web developers and developers of all kinds.
http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016
What an easy way to get started with local development on a Mac! Although I’m really not a advocate for local development, I think there is just too much difference between local and production
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/using-laravel-valet-for-wordpress-development–cms-26519
It really is here, the ability to make your web app feel like a native app. Here are 2 great resources for getting started:
https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/
Star ratings are all over the interwebs, but I tried coding some up a few months ago and it wasn’t that easy (at least not to make it cross- browser friendly). Today I stumbled across this nugget and wish I would have found it months ago:
I’ve always worked hard to optimize all my web apps (client caching, gzip compression, image compression, domain shading, css sprites, etc…). It’s great to see that it really does make a difference. wpostats.com shows the real stats and puts into hard numbers that perfomance does matter.
Collaboration and working with clients has changed a lot in the 10 years I’ve been doing it, and to show that, Assembla crunched the numbers with a great survey:
http://blog.assembla.com/2016-client-collaboration-survey-findings
The findings are spot-on, it’s worth a read.
This articles talks about how web apps can get the same trust and experience as native apps. Lots of great points:
https://remysharp.com/2016/03/18/progressive-web-apps-the-long-game
I always get frustrated when prices aren’t listed on a website, but apparently that’s how the big dogs do it:
http://onstartups.com/learn-by-example-38-saas-startup-pricing-pages-analyzed
I haven’t seen a better article than this when it comes to the technical side of SEO.
https://ma.ttias.be/technical-guide-seo/
Being able to POST data is a core piece of web development. Sometimes testing and logging the POST data though is not easy. David Walsh just posted about how easy it is to use CURL right from the terminal:
https://davidwalsh.name/curl-post-file
And if you haven’t used POSTMAN, it’s an awesome tool for testing POST. Even gives you the option to share and save your queries.