Website and Android App Development

Sunday 25 September 2016

Web Development Tools and Resources

The best and worst thing about being a web developer is that the web is constantly changing. While this is exciting it also means that web developers must always be proactive about learning new techniques or programming languages, adapting to changes, and be willing and eager to accept new challenges. This could include tasks such as adapting existing frameworks to meet business requirements, testing a website to identify technical problems, or optimizing and scaling a site to better perform with the back-end infrastructure. We thought we would compile a comprehensive list of web development tools and resources that can help you be more productive, stay informed, and become a better developer.

Web Development Tools and Resources for 2016

A lot fo these web development tools below are ones we use at KeyCDN on a daily basis. We can’t include everything, but here are a couple of our favorites and other widely used ones. Hopefully, you find a new tool or resource that will aid you in your development workflow. Note: The tools and resources below are listed in no particular order.

Monday 19 September 2016

How to build your first web application

So you want to start developing your very first web application? You want to know how you can start quickly and develop your first web application? Well here is the good news, you are at the right place. With these web app development tutorial series we are here to guide you through the development of your first web application and more. But, there are few points before we start. First, we have to mention that these tutorial series are meant for more technical audience with prior web design and development experience. Second, there are different approaches to even developing a simple application. You can copy and paste some code together and call it a success, or take a stricter engineering approach and build a code base that would have test cases, easily extendable, or even scalable for future versions, should you decide to build more features on your existing architecture. In this tutorial series we are going to develop a very simple web application, and build more and more on the same code. Because in real life that’s how software evolves. We will also cover some methodologies and software engineering concepts such as Rapid Application Development (RAD), and Continuous Integration (CI), and many more techniques and best practices that would help you with developing more complex systems. We tried to keep these methodologies separate from the coding tutorial sections, so people familiar with the methodologies could jump straight to the code. So let’s get started with the concept first, and what you should know before starting your very first and simple web application.

About web apps (applications)

As we all know it, state of the web is very dynamic, and it has evolved a lot since it’s inception. With advent of new web technologies, and more connected devices with powerful browsers, now more than ever people rely on web based software to stay connected.