Today marks the first year since we packed our bags and left for greener pastures. I can still remember in the few months leading to our flight we sold our house, our car, and everything…
Easily create a local Laravel development environment with Docker in Windows
This article is meant to be a short walkthrough on how to quickly setup a local development environment using Docker, a better alternative to installing a full LAMP stack such as XAMPP on your machine….
Basic AJAX CRUD app using PHP, MySQL and jQuery
We are going to build a basic AJAX CRUD app from scratch using only PHP, MySQL and jQuery AJAX. CRUD is an acronym for Create, Read, Update, Delete. Basic operations that are at the heart...
EDSA U-turn tunnel and street level bus stop with pedestrian overpass; A design solution to improve UX
As exercise on user experience design, I often take physical real world problems and try to think of innovative solutions to solve it. On this post, I will try to give a solution to the…
When to do a website refresh vs redesign; A case study of Digest.ph
TLDR; If your website still does it’s job, just do a refresh. If your website has become stagnant for a long time, consider a redesign. I’m going to cite one of our projects Digest.ph as…
Improving site speed: Time to First Byte (TTFB)
More than half of visits are abandoned if a page doesn’t load within 3 seconds, this translates to a huge loss in potential sales and leaves a bad impression to users. Speed is now also…
Tips to make working from home a success during and post pandemic
On our first AIM-DBI program orientation we were asked what we do to keep ourselves sane during the quarantine, I answered the usual – exercise, playing the guitar and bingeing on Netflix. But then I…
Install PHP 7 and Composer on Windows 10 through Ubuntu in WSL
A major advantage of using this setup over the more common XAMPP development environment is that with Ubuntu in WSL, the PHP 7 installation will be the 64 bit variant, as opposed to XAMPP where…
3 most essential principles of responsive design
Responsive web design is built on several principles to work properly. Below are the three most essential principles of a responsive website to get you started. Fluid grids Media queries Flexible images and media NOTE:…
Top 5 characteristics of an effective website
No one visits your website just to read your company’s mission and vision. Gone are the days when you only had to write your business objectives, add your company picture and call it a website….