2021 - November/December
In this issue's cover story, Wei-Meng Lee introduces you to Bokeh, a Python library for creating interactive visualizations for Web browsers. It is a fascinating read. Haidar starts a new series of articles, on deploying a PHP Laravel application on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He fills a significant gap in Google's own documentation. Shawn writes about modern JavaScript. Joydip walks through several patterns you can follow to build resilient applications using microservices architecture. Helen explores DAX and its functions and operators to combine to build formulas and expressions, which you can use in PowerBI. Sahil writes about basic algorithms everyone who writes software should know. Paul continues his series on MVC applications, and more. Enjoy!
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Beating the Doldrums
We've all had a rough couple of years. Rod talks about what's helped him cheer up and that we're all in this together.
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Data Structures and Algorithms
Sahil collects his favorite tools and tells you why they should be your favorites too.
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Enhance Your MVC Applications Using JavaScript and jQuery: Part 2
Paul continues his series on how to make your MVC applications more fun to build and more comfortable for your users.
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Using Modern JavaScript in the Browser
JavaScript used to be a bitter pill to swallow. These days, it’s not only improved, but it’s nearly ubiquitous. Shawn shows you what’s so modern about JavaScript.
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DAX with Dates: The Power Plays
Everyone’s seen those tired old Excel charts and graphs. Helen shows you how to make them more dynamic using Power BI, Power Query, and DAX Calculations.
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Building Dashboards Using Bokeh
Wei-Meng shows you how to use charts and graphs to both display data and to let users interact with data. It’s all done with a Python library called Bokeh.
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Beginner’s Guide to Deploying PHP Laravel on the Google Cloud Platform
Bilal starts a new series about using the Google Cloud Platform to deploy a PHP Laravel application.
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Designing Microservices Architecture for Failure
You’ve heard about microservices and how they help teams divvy up the workload. Joydip examines them even more closely to show you how you can use them as part of your test cycle, too.
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CODA: On Rules and Procedures
Sometimes rules are good for you, and it’s important to recognize when they’re not only good for you but they’re good for the whole project.