ruby on rails

Rails Associations

An association is a connection between two Active Record models. It makes it much easier to perform various operations on the records in your code. We will divide associations into four categories: 1. One to One 2. One to Many 3. Many to Many 4. Polymorphic One to Many If

starting a business

Starting a Business with a Development Company vs Without a Development Company

Starting a business you have dreamt for a longer period of time means being prepared to face the unknown. Once you start working on developing a business plan, you will become aware of the fact that dreams don’t come true that easily. In fact, only a true entrepreneur has

css

CSS overflow

The CSS overflow property specifies what to do in the case when content is too large to fit in the container box. It specifies if a scrollbar should appear, or if content gets clipped. The overflow property is a shorthand for overflow-x and overflow-y. The overflow-x property specifies handling the

app developers

How To Find Good App Developers

So, you have successfully become the founder of a tech startup company. Congrats! Now what? Let’s see: you have probably managed to put together a concept for your idea, write it down, create a business plan, and might have even rented an office. All you need to do now

css

CSS will-change

The coolest name, isn't it? Well, CSS is changing, and it will change, hopefully by adding more cool-name options. There's a word that will-change is here to change transition in the transition-transform relationship. Can I just ask: will-it-change? (OK, I'm done!) It's totally fine if you didn't hear about will-change

git

Git Merge

Isolating features into different branches is a crucial practice for any serious developer. By separating each feature, bugfix or working experiment you will avoid a lot of problems and keep your development branches clean. At some point, a piece of code will reach a state where you'll want to integrate

being an entrepreneur

Being an Entrepreneur in 2018

With AI, AR and blockchain on the rise, now seems like a perfectly good and reasonable time to invest in one of the mentioned high-tech options and create your very own small business. All you need to do is find people who will work for small wages and overtime, and

app making companies

The Process of App Making - Explained

The facts are these: there is a significant number of app making companies out there. In fact, according to a post on Clutch.co, 67% of small businesses planned to have an app finished by the end of 2017. Keep in mind that this information includes only mobile app statistics,

web design

Tabindex

When dealing with an element focusing, tabindex has a big role. This attribute indicates if the element can be focusable and reachable with the keyboard navigation. When pressing the Tab key, the browser shifts focus from one element to another. By using tabindex, we can change the tab order flow.

graphql

Testing GraphQL Server in NodeJS

When we started using GraphQL in our NodeJS project, we had a struggle with writing tests: we read numerous blogs, searching for the best way. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be one, so we made one ourselves and here we'll share our way of testing GraphQL queries. This article will

business lessons

5 Business Lessons from Successful Entrepreneurs

Let’s make something clear in the beginning. Being an entrepreneur is, most of the time, a handful. It is more than “challenging” or “demanding”. Being a founder is frustrating, it often puts you out of your comfort zone, and forces you to think and act faster than you’d

css

CSS Bullet Style

Are you a fan of making lots and lots of lists? Neither am I. But, here we are not talking about chores or shopping lists. We are talking about ordered and unordered lists that are inevitable when making modern websites and apps. As mentioned, when creating lists in HTML and

ruby for beginners

Ruby Programming: Beginner's Guide [2018 update]

We are writing this brief tutorial on how to easily get into Ruby programming language and Ruby on Rails framework so our community can grow with new developers. First things first. Ruby on Rails framework is based on Ruby programming language, and the learning should start from learning Ruby. Before

great software developers

7 Traits That Make a Great Software Developer

Finding a truly great software developer nowadays is like looking for a needle in a haystack—all but impossible. Sure, there are a lot of good programmers out there who will just do their job, and most of the time, you will be satisfied with their work. Plus, you’ll

nodejs

Anatomy of Sails.js API with GraphQL

If you're having troubles with organizing API for the Node.js app, using the Sails.js framework with the GraphQL, know that you're not the only one - we've been there too. Since this is not an every-day combination of technologies, it was challenging to define the anatomy of such

css

CSS Transform

Without the transition, transform property is able just to turn over the object it is applied to. So, in the most real-life situations (real-life?), these two options are applied together. Just Transform Powers which this property possesses are: * rotate(angle), * skew(angle), * translate(x,y), * scale(x,y), * matrix(n,

git

Git Branches

Several developers contribute to the same source code, and while some will be fixing bugs the others would be implementing new and different features. The problem raises, how to maintain different versions of the same code base? This is where the branch function shines!

website design

How and When to Create a Website with a Black Background Design

Black has always been—if not the most popular design color—the color which designers talk about the most. It is sophisticated, energetic, mysterious, elegant, powerful, stylish, and the complete opposite of the default white.

database

Rails 5 Change Database Column

While working on a Rails application, we all have had to change the database column in some way. You can change the column name and the column type, as well as change the column with the type conversion. Changing the Column Name Before we can change a column, we have

git

Git Commands Tutorial - Part 2

In the last Git Commands article, we have learned how to use Git options and what they can do. Today, we will extend our reach and discover everything there is to know about commonly used Git Commands.

css

CSS Transition

So, we've moved from text and color in web design to unique, bombshell, explosions... OK, not that much, but we've moved. CSS follow and support those changes and because of that, we have the transition option. This post is closely related to the post that is currently being written and

top mobile app developers

Qualities of Top Mobile App Developers

It's no secret that mobile technology has become a significant part of our everyday lives and that it's affecting all of us more than we'd like to admit. Doubt it? Well, why not let facts speak for themselves: * According to Statista, in January, 2018 there were 3.7 billion of

css

CSS blend mode

Usually, when adding an image to a website, the first thing we do is edit the image in an external software, such as Photoshop. Does the blend mode eliminate the need to use this kind of software? Not really. But, in a lot of cases you will be able to

css

CSS Selectors - The Ultimate List

As a front-end developer who writes approximately 238 lines of CSS every day I needed this. Nothing in the following text is really mine (even though they said that I always added something special...), it is just collected from sources which are available to everyone (not just w3schools). At the