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As a remote iOS developer, I love Slack. It’s my meeting room and my water cooler over the course of a work day. If...
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If you have pitched the idea of a set of APIs to your boss, you might have run across this question. “Why do we...
Simple ToDo list web application with node.js, Express, and Riot
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If you have remotely been paying attention to what is going on in the web development space, you know that Node.js has become extremely...
Agile Works Best in PHP Projects
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