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REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It is a set of design principles for making network communication more scalable and flexible. REST definition outlines a number of architectural constraints that a system must satisfy to be considered...

It would seem that such a trivial problem as SQL injection is no longer a problem, but unfortunately this vulnerability is still relevant and is in the top of the OWASP Top-10 list. To understand how this problem can be avoided, we first look at why it is so dangerous and what the consequences of it can be.

Let's get back to basics and remind ourselves how it all began and analyze both the strengths and weaknesses of each of them.

Most of us know about good old SOLID principles introduced by Uncle Bob, but do we understand it the right way? And do we use it the right way, or just talking about it? Let's go through step by step to remind ourselves about the core ideas and principles of it.

Whether you agree or you don't, digital security is a foremost concern among both individuals and businesses. To mitigate or avoid cyber attacks, it is crucial that you make a Virtual Private Network (VPN) an essential component of your overall digital security strategy. Identifying which VPN protocol you should use is a good initial step.

Redis is an in-memory key-value data store and a popular choice for caching, session management, gaming, leaderboards, real-time analytics, geospatial, ride-hailing, chat/messaging, media streaming, and pub/sub apps.

JSON Web Token or JWT, is a standard for safely passing claims in space constrained environments. Simplicity, compactness and usability are key features of its architecture.

An application can be developed with an amazing architecture, using the latest technologies and having the best interface, etc. But if it doesn't solve the business's needs, it won't be considered useful for it. That's when domain driven design (DDD) comes in. As its name says, the point here is to focus on the domain of a specific business.

Two of the most common attacks against web sites and web application are XSS (Cross-site Scripting) and CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery). Both kind of attacks are exploited regulary and even big companies have been vulnerable to them.

A man in the middle (MITM) attack is a general term for when a perpetrator positions himself in a conversation between a user and an application — either to eavesdrop or to impersonate one of the parties, making it appear as if a normal exchange of information is underway.

Cookies are small peace of data that are stored on user's computers. Cookies were and are still subject to criticism due to their nature, as they suffer from three major attacks: Man-in-the-Middle, XSS and CSRF. But there is an easy way to protect your data against these attacks.

While creating several web application I was interested in where sensitive information should be stored securely. Some developers prefer storing data in cookies, some of them in localStorage and only a few of them in sessionStorage. It is time to shed light on these questions.

Almost one year passed since I passed Laravel Certification, so I want to share with you my experience how I prepared and passed this exam, what you have to learn and how to feel you are ready to pass it.

Understanding what a DNS record is and what each part of an entry represents is vital to understanding what your DNS records are doing and why they behave the way they do. Knowing where your record is pointing and what the TTL is set to is important in knowing when to expect your changes to take effect and begin working.

Main power and advantage of Git are mostly branches. We are using them to work on different tasks at the same time. When you've been working on part of your project, things are in a messy state and you want to switch branches for a bit to work on something else. The problem is, you don't want to do a commit of half-done work just so you can get bac...

DNS servers create a DNS record to provide important information about a domain or hostname, particularly its current IP address. The most common DNS record types will be described.

Standardization of JS has moved to a year-long update cycle, and the beginning of the year is a great time to find out what awaits us in the anniversary - the tenth edition of EcmaScript!

Nowadays developers should handle a lot of different operations, especially on own machine. To simplify the work and monitoring of processes in the system and in the network, we picked up several tools to make work in the terminal more comfortable.

A .gitignore file should be committed into your repository, in order to share the ignore rules with any other users that clone the repository. But for application and OS specific files it is recommended to create a global .gitignore file, which is a list of rules for ignoring files in every Git repository on your computer.

Working with large files in storage can cause an application to be out of memory as it loads the entire file into RAM before sending it to the storage. To save memory usage we need to work with streams.

Various websites could contain useful information, that you would like to keep locally for the future. Unfortunately, not all websites adapted to be printable via default browser behaviour. Using CSS3 print media query this feature lack could be easily fixed.

We all know how to create a variable, how to get the value of a variable, and how to take a reference to a variable. Let's have a learn what happens in the interpreter when you change the value of a variable? Or when you delete it? How are the types of variables implemented?

Learn how to configure HTTPS with nginx to get an A+ score when checking in SSL Labs and how secure yourself against the latest bugs by SSL encryption.

For some web application, you probably need to ask a user to share his/her location with you. Native web browser behaviour asks you to use an outdated approach to get it using callbacks. But we'll show you how to make this request synchronously using the new JavaScript features.

Asynchronous functions allows us to program using asynchronous requests in a "synchronous" manner. They could be really useful with ajax calls, for example.

No matter how good a Agile team is, there is always opportunity to improve. Although a good Agile team will be constantly looking for improvement opportunities, the team should set aside a brief, dedicated period at the end of each sprint to deliberately reflect on how they are doing and to find ways to improve. This occurs during the sprint retros...

Validation is an important task every web developer should care when working with data coming to server. Symfony has Validator component for that, but let's build request auto-validation structure to be sure that data came to our appliction is already valid.

The development process in PHP is mostly related to the receipt and processing of data from different sources. Usage of the Standard PHP Library, SPL and knowledge of its composition is an area whose possession can confirm the competence of the PHP developer.

Step-by-step instructions for creating a plug-in for Chart.js library.

Well-known resource GitHub for every developer could be not just a repository for your code, but even free hosting for your website with SSL certificate.

React Component lifecycle methods have changed since React 16.3 released. To prevent you to write legacy code I recommend to pay attention to it.

Working on various projects written on the React, I noticed that many people do not write React code in the proper way. Since for me writing a clean structure and a well-styled code is very important, I would like to share my experience.

Refactoring is a great thing every developer should care about. But I found some cases when it could be useless.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is great for data storage due to the fact that there is quite cheap and very stable. Let's walk step by step to properly and safely work with the data storage.

Unfortunately there is not possible to easy update JetBrains IDE to newer version on GNU/Linux without reinstalling. In this article described step by step instructions how to completely uninstall PhpStorm from your machine and install new version.