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Stay Cool: How to Take Design Feedback Strategically

Giving and receiving feedback—without losing one’s cool—is an art. It’s incumbent on designers to encourage others to give them quality design critiques on their work that cultivates constructive discussion.

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Bree Chapin

Bree Chapin

Integrating Stripe and PayPal Payment Methods in Ruby on Rails

Secure payment processing is a key prerequisite for any eCommerce operation. If it fails, the consequences can be catastrophic for any company, big or small.

In this article, Toptal Ruby on Rails Developer Henrique Reinaldo Sarmento outlines how you can create a Ruby on Rails eCommerce app, leveraging PayPal and Stripe for reliable and secure payments.

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Henrique Reinaldo Sarmento

Henrique Reinaldo Sarmento

Maximalist Design and the Problem with Minimalism

We live in an era that exalts minimalist design above all other forms of creative expression, especially maximalism. But what is the cost of our obsession with graphic simplicity?

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Danae Botha

Danae Botha

The 6 Most Recession-Proof Industries

Recession-proof industries either provide an absolute necessity that consumers will always keep purchasing, or have characteristics that are conducive to experiencing increased demand in downturns.

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Machines and Trust: How to Mitigate AI Bias

Unwanted AI bias is already a widespread problem. Machine learning models can replicate or exacerbate existing biases, often in ways that are not detected until release. So what can be done about it?

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Michael McKenna

Michael McKenna

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Introduction to Functional Programming: JavaScript Paradigms

Functional Programming is a paradigm of building computer programs using expressions and functions without mutating state and data.

In this article, we will talk about doing functional programming using JavaScript. We will also explore various JavaScript methods and features that make it possible. In the end, we will explore different concepts associated with functional programming and see why they are so powerful.

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Avi Aryan

Avi Aryan

WordPress Continuous Deployment and Version Control with Bitbucket

WordPress developers spent years struggling with sub-optimal solutions for CI/CD. Despite the fact that they were using the most popular CMS on the market, they often had to improvise and resort to time-consuming practices.

In this article, Toptal WordPress Developer Alexa Green shares her approach to WordPress deployment using Bitbucket and some straightforward code.

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Alexa Green

Alexa Green

Agile Documentation: Balancing Speed and Knowledge Retention

The various documents, artifacts, and the processes that generate documentation are some of the main symbols of the Waterfall model. Borrowing from Lean, Agile considers a lot of documentation as “waste” that needs to be eradicated in order to streamline the development lifecycle.

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Vinod Sukumaran

Vinod Sukumaran

Serving Food From the Cloud

The restaurant industry is infamous for its failure rate. The most common reason for failure is location. Cloud kitchens do away with this obstacle, allowing restaurants to operate without having a central hip location.

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Naveen Sharda

Naveen Sharda

Working with ESP32 Audio Sampling

The successor of the revolutionary ESP8266, the ESP32 is a next-generation microcontroller. Find out how to sample its analog-to-digital converter (ADC) from a timer interrupt using the Arduino IDE.

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Ivan Voras, PhD

Ivan Voras, PhD

Caching and Connection Handling in .NET: An Aspect-Oriented Programming Tutorial

We reduce boilerplate with common OOP patterns, but often, the code overhead of using patterns is almost the same—if not bigger—than if we’d used boilerplate code in the first place.

In aspect-oriented programming tutorial, we implement two functions (aspects) that allow for generic database connection management and caching. These allow us to mark methods that, when called, will automatically have the required functionally present in through IL weaving.

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Marko Pađen

Marko Pađen

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