Category: Web Development

“But, we took care of that before, didn’t we?” asked a participant in a web application security course I taught recently. It was a good, logical question. We were discussing “SQL injection” a process where an attacker enters database commands into a website field – in, say a forum or comment section – that could […]

A push notification is gentle nudge from your website to re-engage with a user by delivering a short message that pops up on the user’s device. The message can be triggered locally by the open application or can be “pushed” from the server to the user even when the app is not running. A service […]

React is an unopinionated framework. It gives you a lot of flexibility to do things your own way. This flexibility can be empowering once you are familiar with the framework, but it can make it a little daunting to get started. Every piece of code you see seems to be doing things in a slightly […]

A confluence of business trends and development best practices is changing the way developers need to think about building applications. For want of a better term, the mindset that most software developers follow when building applications might be called ‘systems thinking’: Design a database that holds the data the company needs, design the software components […]

There are two mistakes that organizations make when doing usability testing. And once those mistakes are made, two things are certain: either end users won’t get an application they can actually use or, if they do, it will cost more and take longer. Organizations often make a fundamental mistake by thinking of usability testing as […]