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2023

Composition versus Inheritance in Software Engineering

A comparison between both approaches, revealing their distinct roles in shaping software engineering practices.

Optimizing Data Access: A Deep Dive into Database Indexes

Discover effective ways to speed up data searches in your database by exploring database indexes.

Bringing Back the Flags! Keyboard Layout Indicator as Country Flags on Gnome

A script for converting the keyboard layout indicator on Gnome from text to country flags

Efficient Software Release Management with Automated Changelog Generation

A development and release process with automated changelog generation and how to configure it

2019

REST API Best Practices

Some points to take into consideration when designing an API

2017

Caching API responses with Redis for faster endpoints

Redis is an in-memory database project implementing a key-value store with optional durability

Token based authentication in Node.js with Passport, JWT and bcrypt

Forget about the cookies and sessions. Time to go stateless!

Documenting your Node.js API with apiDoc

How to generate HTML documentation for your endpoints

Backup your MongoDB databases to Amazon S3

How to do it using a backup script I developed and Docker

Scheduling tasks with cron on Docker

When you need to setup a cron job, you can do it using Docker. In this post I show how to do that with an Alpine Linux image

My favorite fitness apps for Android

Here I list some apps I have used and others I still use and recommend

One year working with Node.js after PHP and .NET - Challenges, comparisons and improvements

Challenges, comparisons and improvements. A bit of what I've been experiencing with Node.js

Configuring Visual Studio Code for debugging Node.js and transpiling TypeScript

Say goodbye to debugging with console.log. Start using breakpoints and a real debugger

Tests and code coverage on Node.js using TypeScript with Mocha and Istanbul

How to configure the environment, write the tests, write the API endpoints and generate the code coverage report

2016

My favorite language learning resources

Some websites I've been using for learning languages

Configuring a load balancer with Nginx on Debian Linux

In this video I use Debian Linux on Virtualbox to show how a load balancer can be configured using Nginx, distributing the load among other instances

Write your mobile app once and run it anywhere with Ionic Framework

Hybrid mobile development with HTML5, AngularJS and Cordova

2015

Linux and me: Why I fell in love with Arch Linux

How I started using Linux and the things I love about Arch Linux

20 Years of PHP and Me

PHP's 20th anniversary and what this language means to my career

Experiencing 10 Programming Languages