For a small business, there are many benefits to having a company website. You get an online presence 24/7, an ability to expand to more markets outside of your geographical boundaries, and an opportunity for growth. But, not everyone has the technical knowledge or resources to create a website. Yes, there are a lot of…
All freelancers, consultants and self-employed individuals know that the more options you give to a customer to pay your invoice, the faster it will get paid. This is especially true when one of the options is for clients to pay online. With the latest update to our invoicing app (Invoicing 24/7), getting paid faster is…
Mobile app developers are paid very well in the software development industry. According to ZipRecruiter, the average salary of a mobile app developer is more than $100K per year, or $50 per hour. In this post, I will list some of the technologies that you need to learn to become a mobile app developer. The…
Null Safety is a feature in some programming languages which guarantees that no variable in your code can contain a null value, unless you explicitly allow it. In other words, it makes your program less likely to encounter a Null Reference error during run-time. Null Safety has been added to the Dart programming language in…
Most mobile applications need to make requests to an external service, whether it’s an API, or any other service that’s hosted on an external server and can be accessed by making a request over HTTP. So, how do you make an HTTP call from a Flutter mobile app? As discussed in a previous blog post,…
I have mentioned MongoDB in some of my previous blog posts. And, from those posts, you may know that one of the differences between MongoDB (or NoSQL databases, in general) and traditional relational (or SQL) databases, is that MongoDB is non-relational. In other words, relations between entities in the database are not enforced in MongoDB.…
You may have heard the term MEAN Stack in web development. I will explain where this term comes from, and what are the advantages of creating web applications using the MEAN Stack. MEAN Stack stands for MongoDB, Express.js, Angular and Node.js. Let’s first talk about the different parts that make up a MEAN Stack application,…
If you use the Dart programming language, for developing Flutter applications for example, you may get the following message in your IDE: Dart-Code is switching to using the Language Server Protocol for improved performance. Would you like to enable it now? What does Language Server Protocol mean, and should you enable it? The short answer…
People often ask me this question, what do I need to learn to become a web developer. There’s no short answer to this question. And, the answer always starts with “it depends…”. In this blog post, I will try to deep dive into the different web technologies that you can learn to become a web…
If you use The7 Blog List widget, and you’re having an issue with displaying all blog posts, then this might help you solve the problem. First, I will describe the problem that I’m trying to fix, and then present a solution that should help fix the problem. The problem You create a post, and then…