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Dev Discussions: A Primer on Accessibility with Inclusive Design Expert Ben Myers of SomeAntics

Have you ever been on a website where the text is gray and the background is a slightly darker shade of gray? Or tried to read an article on your phone where you weren’t able to magnify it? Hopefully the answer to both of those questions is a loud “No,” and the reason for that is accessibility standards. For some people those standards – contrast specifications and magnification capabilities – are conveniences, but for many others they are a necessity for web browsing.

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The Complete Guide to Regular Expressions (Regex)

A Regular Expression – or regex for short– is a syntax that allows you to match strings with specific patterns. Think of it as a suped-up text search shortcut, but a regular expression adds the ability to use quantifiers, pattern collections, special characters, and capture groups to create extremely advanced search patterns. Regex can be used any time you need to query string-based data, such as: While doing all of these is theoretically possible without regex, when regexes hit the scene they act as a superpower for doing all of these tasks.

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Talking Growth: Our Product-Led Model and Viral Candidate Experiences

When was the last time you relied on only a sales pitch to convince you to buy a piece of software? I’ll wait… In today’s fast-moving tech landscape, the buyer journey isn’t something you can always neatly map out. As CoderPad’s Growth Lead, I get an up-close view of how it evolves and the many different channels customers use to learn about a product. But I’ve also learned that, at the end of the day, developers know what they want. That means one principle stands above the rest: “When a product works, it just works.”

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Dev Discussions: SQL vs NoSQL with James Quick of PlanetScale

We recently shared some excellent job advice from YouTuber and Developer Advocate James Quick. But Corbin and James’ conversation didn’t end with that – they also covered some great information about the differences between SQL and NoSQL and how to choose the proper database for your particular use case.

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Dev Discussions: How To Get a Great Job at a Great Company with James Quick of PlanetScale

It’s not often you’re glad you got rejected from a job. But for James Quick, it turned out to be a pretty good thing. He had interviewed for a software engineering role at Microsoft, where he didn’t quite make the cut. Still, the interviewers saw enough skill in him to suggest he interview for a “technology evangelist” role with them. He landed it. There James was able to gain some valuable public speaking experience – and more importantly, he learned how much he liked talking with others about technology.

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Dev Discussions: Getting a Job in Fortune 500 Companies with Brad Garropy

Brad Garropy didn’t start his career thinking he’d work for some of the biggest names in technology. He didn’t even develop a taste for coding until he got to the University of Texas and took two classes on programming while earning his degree in electrical engineering. As a teenager, he was more interested in using computers for cruising the internet than writing software applications. Once out of college, he knew he wanted to get into coding, and luckily his university had a recruitment pipeline with Dell that allowed him to land a job there writing firmware in C. But it wasn’t long before he was itching to work his way “up the language stack.”

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Dev Discussions: James Perkins of RollYourTweet on How to Create a Successful SaaS

Developer advocate and software engineer James Perkins of RollYourTweet.com has some sage advice for anyone looking to create the next big app: In a recent discussion with CoderPad’s Corbin Crutchley, James talks about his experience with creating a SaaS application and the lessons he learned from creating RollYourTweet. He doesn’t mince words – the people who think your tech stack is cool probably are not going to be the people who are going to use it. More importantly, they’re not going to be the ones paying for it. The only reason users care about the technology you use is that it improves the product and their experience.

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Integration Tests vs. Unit Tests: Why Integration Tests Matter More

In the hierarchy of things developers like to do, writing tests falls at about the “necessary evil” level. Like eating a heaping pile of spinach, we know it’s good for us–but getting motivated to do it can be a struggle. Of course running the proper tests saves us a whole lot of time and money fixing bugs down the line, but even then there are usually a million other things we’d rather do than write tests. Luckily for us, many other software developers also didn’t like doing it, so they created lots of automated testing tools to make it easier. These days you can find a tool for just about any testing type and programming language.

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A Beginner’s Guide to JavaScript Debugging in Chrome

Did you know your web browser can do more than allow you to doom scroll 24-hour news services, find all your dev questions answered on StackOverflow, and discover hilarious pictures of cats? It also works as an excellent tool for debugging your front-end JavaScript. No longer will you have to rely on adding and deleting hundreds of console.log(“this is another debugging message”); to see what your code is doing. Instead, you can leverage tools like Chrome’s DevTools to see what your JavaScript is doing in real-time as you move around the screen. You can set breakpoints, view console logs, check variable values, and more.

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