Testing is a crucial part of the software development cycle. Developers need to make sure that the application behaves the way they programmed it at every step of the way and ensure that there are no security vulnerabilities within the code. …

Let me introduce you to WhiteSource Bolt — Open source refers to a project that is accessible by users to share and modify, which prevents software engineers from reinventing the wheel whenever they want to build new features. Just by importing the library with one line of code, the developer’s toolkit gets wider. Some benefits of using open-source…

My priority this year is happiness and finding self-love. In the past, I’ve run away from my emotions and locked them up in a vault inside my brain. …

My brother, Emir, is an 18-year-old, non-verbal individual on the autism spectrum. He needs 24/7 care. My family needs to help him with everyday tasks like getting dressed, making food. He frequently throws temper tantrums by screaming and hitting himself and others near him. …

Testing is one of the most important steps in software development. We need to make sure that our code is doing the task it needs to do without breaking the page. We also need to make sure that the page looks the way designers imagined. …

If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It — What is Google Analytics? Google Analytics or GA, is a free web analytics service that tracks and reports web traffic. Engineers can use Google Analytics to track their user's website session duration, pages per session, bounce rate and so much more. GA gives users an in-depth look at their user's behaviors and allows them…

“The Defining Decade: Why your twenties matter — and how to make the most of them now” by Meg Jay, PhD — I read the book, “The Defining Decade: Why your twenties matter — and how to make the most of them now”, in my early 20s and I think about the lessons I’ve learned from the book very frequently to this day. I want to point out that I am not…

Differences between access modifiers — Private, Public, and Protected keywords are access modifiers. Depending on what you want to do with the variable or function, you might want to restrict the access modifier to be either public, private, and protected. Below are quick summaries of each access modifier and where they can be accessed from…

What is it and why you need it — Feature Flag, or feature toggle, is a software development technique to turn certain functionality or component on or off without deploying new code. The new functionality or component can be wrapped in a feature flag in code during development, which can allow developers to turn the flag off in production…