If you want to develop an Android application or game, it’s essential to have Java Development Kit (JDK), Android command line tools, and the SDK. With utilities like keytool, you can generate app signing keys, with, adb debug the application on a real device, with sdkmanager you can install Android SDKs and so on. In … Read more
If you are an experienced system administrator you may want to setup your own email server. Setting up a custom email server is a challenging task, but you gain a better understanding of how email works and its inner mechanism by completing it. In this tutorial, you will learn how to setup a full-featured Linux … Read more
A lot of technologies aim at simplifying existing tech, but end up adding a new layer of complexity. It makes them inefficient in terms of development costs and time. You can say this about some JavaScript abstractions, such as CoffeeScript. In this article you will find out if CoffeeScript language is deprecated as of 2022? … Read more
When released, Go brought a huge boost to the web development and software engineering community, and it has a number of advantages over other web programming languages such as Python and NodeJS. Recently I read that some people argue that Go popularity decreases. But is Go really dying? What is Go? Go is a general-purpose, … Read more
SMTP is one of the oldest application-layer protocols. It is used to deal with email. Despite it is called “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol”, it is in fact really complicated. One of the things that may confuse you is the vast amount of ports you need to open if you want to host an email relay. … Read more
You’ve rented a server or VPS/VDS. Your fresh new remote machine is here and you want to login right now. So do hackers and bots. But how to secure your server? Let’s figure out. Prerequisite: trustworthy hosting provider First, ensure that your server is hosted by a reliable server provider. If you use shared hosting, … Read more
If you’re not familiar with React, React is a JavaScript library, and a web application can be written using React. With React building single page applications (SPA) becomes easy. In this article you will discover, is React still on demand in 2022? What is React? React is a JavaScript library, which allows to separate the … Read more
If you are running a Django project in a production environment then you have to take care of the way you manage your settings.py file. Most developers have one settings file for development and one for production. In this tutorial I will show you how to make your settings file meet production environment requirements. Is … Read more
If you are developing a web application, then most probably you will come across situations where you need to show the 404 (not found) page. We will talk about this in this article. When you should return 404 It is a good practice to use a 404 page in cases when users are accessing the … Read more
MySQL is the most popular open-source database management system. Today we will look at the usage of MySQL in Python via module mysql-connector-python also known as mysql.connector. Requirements Before you start, make sure you have the following: Basic Python 3 knowledge. Python and Pip installed. If not, run this command (for Debian and Ubuntu):sudo apt … Read more