Great research out from Google about what experts vs. non-experts value in staying secure online. What I appreciate most is having anti-virus software is not on the expert list. I’ve seen for years that anti-virus software just doesn’t work. Hackers will always be one step ahead of the anti-virus makers.
Check out this article by David Walsh:
http://davidwalsh.name/impostor-syndrome
It’s totally a thing in the web development world.
If you watch movies and you’re a programmer, you probably have to comment on how bad the interfaces are. Here is a website that makes it easy to hack like a hollywood hacker:
StackOverflow is out with their 2015 Developer Survey. Great data in there, great to see the growth and trends around the world for web developers and developers of all kinds.
This is a big one. This is the big reason (imho) that the user base of the world wants an app for everything. But the web folks are slowly bringing the features of native apps to the web world.
Push notifications will be a big step in making web apps a more acceptable and pleasing solution for clients and users.
http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/03/push-notificatons-on-the-open-web
It seems like the amount of code you can add to a simple HTML page just keeps growing. But the benefits are great, especially in this age of social sharing being the main way users find and share content. Using the markup listed in this article can help you make your page more visible.
These two videos do an awesome job of filling in all the backstory of Middle Earth not explained in The Hobbit or The Lord of The Rings.
I’m extremely fortunate: I have a great job that I enjoy doing, and happens to be in a well paying field.
So, I just gave to a classroom to help them teach their students to code on Donors Choose.
Donors Choose is a pretty neat service, I encourage everyone to check it out and support a cause that they believe in! Education and Educators are under-funded here in the U.S.
Spending time on improving page load time and app interaction time is super important. How important? Check these stats here:
http://www.guypo.com/17-statistics-to-sell-web-performance-optimization/
Managing feature requests is an issue every developer deals with (unless you’ve got a fancy business analyst between you and the client). Rachel Anderson from Perch describes some awesome tips for choosing how to prioritize and code up features.
http://alistapart.com/column/managing-feature-requests
The most important tip is her first one, figure out what the clients actual issue is, and don’t just code up the solution they come up with.