Failure is often the catalyst for success. You need to make mistakes to truly learn and grow as a tech worker. Sometimes, you don’t need to make the mistakes to learn. Learning from other’s mistakes can be just as informative and productive. Paying attention to what others have done can help you avoid the same kind of failure. Here are a few common mistakes that authors make that lead to the failure of open-source software projects.

Open-Source Software Projects - Typical Common Reasons for Failure

Leaflet, a open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps. It is a well-documented API and extended with lot of plugins. It is also designed with simplicity, performance and usability.

Leaflet and Keyhole Markup Language (KML)

Running an ecommerce business is tricky. There is a lack of location which means that your opportunities are bigger but there is also a lot of pressure. Ecommerce business and website is a project on its own and it’s always changing. It’s also a source of numerous other projects. So, project management is one of the most important aspects of it.

5 Tips On Project Management for Ecommerce Businesses

These days, web development is a need for any business - it attracts huge investments and can kick-start businesses. As for the tools mainly used for development, JavaScript is riding the wave right now. StackOverflow has been naming it the most popular programming language for six years straight. React, as one of the most popular JS libraries is also the first choice for interface developers. It offers some of the best web development tools for mobile and single-page applications.

React JS Developer Salary Overview

Notifications is a message pushed to user's device passively. Browser supports notifications and push API that allows to send message asynchronously to the user. Messages are sent with the help of service workers, it runs as background tasks to receive and relay the messages to the desktop if the application is not opened. It uses web push protocol to register the server and send message to the application. Once user opt-in for the updates, it is effective way of re-engaging users with customized content.

Push Notifications using Angular

Scene.js is a JavaScript timeline-based animation library for creating animation websites. As an animated timeline library, it allows you to create a chronological order of movements and positions of objects.

Scene.js - Library to Create Timeline-Based Animation

Web developers come across scenarios like web application completely breaks when workstation goes offline. Likewise to get into our application, every time we need to open a browser and then access it. Instead if it is in app, it will be easy to access for end-user. Push notifications similar to email client need to be done through web application. All these are addressed by a magic called service worker.

Angular Service Workers Usage Guide

JHipster is one of the full-stack web app development platform to generate, develop and deploy. It provides the front end technologies options of React, Angular, Vue mixed with bootstrap and font awesome icons. Last released version is JHipster 6.0.1. It is licensed under Apache 2 license.

JHipster - Generate simple web application code using Spring Boot and Angular

RESTEasy is a JBoss project that provides various frameworks to help you build RESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. It comprises of frameworks for mock, embeddable server, rest client, proxy servers, logging and so on.In this article, we will walk-through ETag implementation and show the behaviour related to ETag done by rest easy framework. Example is developed using RESTEasy 3.7 and deployed in tomcat as RESTEasy framework is portable.

ETag Easy With RESTEasy

What if you could reliably run PHP without Nginx or Apache, but also without relying on its internal server? What if you could do async operations in PHP with true multi threading, fully taking advantage of multi core processors without hacks or a jungle of callbacks? What if you had drag and drop installation support for your PHAR packaged web apps in an environment identical to its production counterpart? Welcome to appserver.io – the worlds first open source application server for PHP.

Appserver.io – The First Multithreaded Application Server for PHP written in PHP

Bitcoin is an open source digital currency which could be transferred in a P2P payment network. It is decentralized and it is not controlled by any central authority or banks. It is transferred from person to person and no authority will be aware of your transaction. Its quite different from PayPal or Banks.

How Bitcoin works? A simple introduction.

Recently you might have seen many news that big organization like Redhat, Fedora, Wikipedia switched their database from MySQL. Now Google also going to join them. Why everyone want to move out of MySQL? It is once a popular and stable software. What is the reason behind and what are the possible alternatives.

Is it good time to switch from MySQL and choose some other database?

People who have taken programming as their career has to do coding for almost 30 years. Will they always get an opportunity to do complex tasks or to write project from scratch? The answer is NO. Sometimes they may get but not always. What should they do?

Why Experienced Programmers Should Contribute to Open Source

I could see many many students posting this question in many forums, I want to contribute to open source but How to contribute? There are many ways to do that. I have listed a few and I hope it might be useful.

How to contribute to open source

PrestaShop is an Open Source eCommerce Solution. It comes complete with over 310 features that have been carefully developed to assist business owners in increasing sales with virtually little effort. It is being used in more than 150,000 online stores.

PrestaShop - A feature rich Open Source eCommerce solution

What the benefit will i get, if i contribute to Open Source? This is the frequently asked question by many people. I just want to pen down the benefits which i know and i hope you will agree with it.

Benefits in contributing to Open Source

Open Source projects requires sponsors to fund their project. Few got good funding but few others are struggling to continue their project. A contributor, who does full time work in open source project requires funding to take care his needs. He has to be paid and he cannot do it for free. For those who don't get fund, check out this crowdfunding sites, these are exclusively for open source projects. Join these, get some fund and continue your dream.

Crowdfunding for Open Source Projects

You may require GBs of data to do performance or load testing. How your app behaves when there is loads of data.  You need to know the capacity of your application. This is the frequently asked question from the sales team "The customer is having 100GB of data and he wants to know whether our product will handle this? If so how much RAM / Disk storage required?". This article has pointers to the large data corpus.

10 sites to get the large data set or data corpus for free

Create Content Using Spring AI and OpenAI

Connect to PostgreSQL using Spring Boot JDBC Client and Hikari

Get to know how to perform CRUD operations in Mongo DB using Spring Boot.

Integrate MongoDB with Spring Boot

Connection Pooling in Java

Integrate SQLite3 with NodeJS

SQLite databases are compact, lightweight, file-centric databases frequently employed in embedded systems and modest applications. Spring Boot, a popular Java framework, provides easy integration with various databases, including SQLite. In this article, we'll explore how to connect SQLite with a Spring Boot application, including setting up dependencies, configuring the database connection, creating entities, and performing basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations.

Integrate SQLite with Spring Boot

In this article, we will explore, How to build RESTful APIs using Jersey in Java.

Build REST API using Jersey in Java

Build CRUD API in Golang using GoFr Framework

Testing in Dart and Database Interaction

Create Symmetric and Asymmetric (Public and Private) Keys using OpenSSL Commands

The 5 Phases of Ethical Hacking

Mkcert is go-lang project, which is super easy tool to setup certificate authority without any configuration. Using certificates are inevitable these days, data should be transferred in a secure communication channel. Buying a certificate is expensive and mostly companies buy certificates only for production systems. In Dev setup, if we use self-signed certificate then there will be trust errors. mkcert automatically creates and installs a local CA in the system root store, and generates locally-trusted certificates.

mkcert - No Config Certificate Authority Tool for Local Development

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