Marc Philippe Beaujean articles - 21 total
Use these 7 Tips to increase the Speed of your Site
Page speed is important if you want to rank on google. I recently managed to do this: In this arti...
Practical Introduction to Vectors for Game Development
Want to make a cool game? Great! (un)Fortunately, a lot of interesting game mechanics are going to re...
Is wearing a Posture Corrector worth it?
As a knowledge worker, chances are that you will be spending a great amount of time sitting in front...
Container Networks with Docker Compose
One of the best things about Docker is that containers have built-in features for connecting with one...
Deploying my Django + React Boilerplate to Heroku
Recently, I developed a new boilerplate for Django apps with React. A boilerplate refers to a project...
Getting a Side Project Idea – my Story
CastSpot has now soft launched and although I am struggling to get traffic onto the site, I wanted to...
Unix Command Basics new Developers should know
At my first internship for an IT firm, I was very confused when asked to work with the terminal (or "...
Deploying your Django App (on Render)
When I finished my first Django app, I found it hard to publish it on the web, because there seemed t...
Choosing the right Software Developer Specialization
When I was 17, I was told to figure out what I should study and do for the rest of my life. Obviously...
Sending Email with SMTP on AWS (and Django)
Email is one of the most common ways by which applications communicate with their users. In this tuto...
5 great Questions for Junior Developers to ask
As a junior developer, you often know very little when starting at your new job. What is worse is tha...
When not to code it from Scratch: Backend Edition
After spending some extensive time developing the backend for a personal project, as well as gaining...
Should you use GatsbyJS?
TLDR; Gatsby is good for websites that need to be fast and require high visual fidelity (like react p...
React Form Submission Handling - anyone got advice?
I keep finding myself rewritting the same ol' submission logic for each form, with slight changes dep...
Dockerfile Fundamentals for creating a custom Container
What is a Dockerfile? As mentioned in a previous article of this series, a Docker image is the bluep...
"Coding is 30% of the Job"
These were the words uttered by one of the more senior developers during my first week at the job. It...
Docker Commandline Guide
Docker Command Line Guide In the last tutorial of the series, we already learned about what Docker i...
Introduction to Docker - Docker Series Part 1
What is Docker Many of the ideas from virtual containers can be linked to the historical use of thei...
Save Time using Git Configurations
There are many things about the git workflow that can be automated - here are some of my favorite con...
When to avoid coding something from Scratch - Frontend Edition
The frontend landscape has been growing in complexity over the past decade, as more and more logic is...
Basic Layout Theory for Web Design
Basic Layout Theory for Web Design Why layout is important The way that content is laid out on a we...