Issue: 2021 - November/December

We've all had a rough couple of years. Rod talks about what's helped him cheer up and that we're all in this together.

Sahil collects his favorite tools and tells you why they should be your favorites too.

Paul continues his series on how to make your MVC applications more fun to build and more comfortable for your users.

JavaScript used to be a bitter pill to swallow. These days, it’s not only improved, but it’s nearly ubiquitous. Shawn shows you what’s so modern about JavaScript.

Everyone’s seen those tired old Excel charts and graphs. Helen shows you how to make them more dynamic using Power BI, Power Query, and DAX Calculations.

Wei-Meng shows you how to use charts and graphs to both display data and to let users interact with data. It’s all done with a Python library called Bokeh.

Bilal starts a new series about using the Google Cloud Platform to deploy a PHP Laravel application.

You’ve heard about microservices and how they help teams divvy up the workload. Joydip examines them even more closely to show you how you can use them as part of your test cycle, too.

Sometimes rules are good for you, and it’s important to recognize when they’re not only good for you but they’re good for the whole project.