Friday, December 14, 2018

11 Javascript Data Visualization Libraries for 2019

Very cool JS libraries!

11 Javascript Data Visualization Libraries for 2019

Selected open source libraries for beautiful charts, graphs and data visualization in your JS applications.

By Jonathan Saring, Medium
Original Article

We live in an era of data explosion, when nearly every application we develop uses or leverages data to improve the experience delivered to the users.

Sometimes, the best feature we can deliver to our users is the data itself. However, table and number charts are often tiring to read and it can be hard to draw actionable insights from large data tables.

Instead, we can use neat data visualization methods that leverage the brain’s ability to identify and process data in a visual way. To help you get started and easily add beautiful data visualization to your favorite application, here are some of the best Javascript data visualization libraries around in 2019 (unranked). Feel free to comment and add your own suggestions and insights!

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[Donovan Hiland]

Thursday, December 13, 2018

A Convincing Case for Visual Studio Code

This article is on point!

[Donovan Hiland]

A Convincing Case for Visual Studio Code

by Nwose Lotanna

Visual Studio Code (a.k.a VS Code) owned by Microsoft is arguably the best and the most popular Integrated Development Environment out there. You can check out a recent developers survey by StackOverflow (Notepad++ has even more fans than Sublime Text 😆) In this short article, I would show you a few wonders of VS Code so you can quickly compare with your IDE and see if this is the time to get a new one...

Source Article:
https://blog.bitsrc.io/a-convincing-case-for-visual-studio-code-c5bcc18e1693

[Donovan Hiland]

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Liked on YouTube: Web Development 2018 - The Must-Know Tech

Web Development 2018 - The Must-Know Tech

A complete roadmap to being a successful web dev in 2018!

This video covers everything it takes to be a web developer in 2018. Beginning web development, learning html and css, learning javascript, becoming a front end developer, becoming a back end developer...and even dev ops and docker! If you learn these skills, you'll be an in-demand developer with a modern and powerful skillset.
[Donovan Hiland]

Thursday, November 22, 2018

‘The Art of Computer Programming’ by Donald Knuth

Great article.

Donald Knuth at the IBM 650 console; illustration by Siobhán K Cronin

"Some books look so beautiful on the shelf. Not only for their aesthetic virtues, but for what their spines say about the owner. The four hardbound volumes of Donald Knuth’s “The Art of Computer Programming” — all snug in their dark purple case — send a clear message: Step aside, Muggles, because you’re in the presence of a Real Programmer. A Serious Practitioner of Computer Science."

"Bill Gates once said, 'If you think you’re a really good programmer… read Art of Computer Programming… You should definitely send me a résumé if you can read the whole thing.' "

"The short feedback loop and malleability of today’s software comes with a price. While software development can be much more playful today, it’s also easier to hack before we think, and it can create a lot of problems. Great software still does require a lot of thought, and with ease we lose rigor."

Carl Tashian

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Liked on YouTube: Intro to Node.js and npm

Intro to Node.js and npm

Learn all about to node and npm! Talk by Logan Huskins at the freeCodeCamp OKC meetup. Thanks to Techlahoma for giving us permission to share. -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job:

[Donovan Hiland]