Amazing Text Editing Experiences with UltraEdit (Sponsored) / / No Comments There’s a common saying that adults spend more time with coworkers than family; for us software engineers, we spend more time with our text editor than our families. And why shouldn’t we? They’re our main tool to do a variety of things, and as these editors evolve, they’re capable of doing even more. UltraEdit, a paid text editor, has been around for decades and continues to be immensely powerful! Quick Hits UltraEdit boasts a loyal user base of over 4 million Decades of engineering expertise and stability baked into the editor The UltraEverything Suite includes a Code Editor, a File Finder and Compare tool, and FTP client Available on Mac, Linux, and Windows The entire... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Amazing, editing, experiences, Sponsored, text, UltraEdit
Advanced Code Display with Code Detection API (Sponsored) / / No Comments Web apps are accepting numerous types of inputs, from basic text to code to imagery, files, and more. It’s important that we validate the contents we receive but if you do allow arbitrary text, it’s good to know what exactly has been submitted so you can present it properly. Enter the Code Detection API — an API that allows you to detect code in text! Quick Hits Detects code block inside arbitrary text input Proposes the detected language and formats input accordingly Supports dozens of programming languages Excellent documentation with numerous code examples Helps to format communications between remote employees Start for free! Brought to you by APILayer, the amazing API... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Advanced, code, Detection, display, Sponsored
Flexible, Powerful DataGrad from Sencha (Sponsored) / / No Comments Many of the web functionalities that we rely on once lived within individual desktop applications. From office suites, games, and financial tools, all of them are now web applications; they’re just as feature packed as their desktop counterparts. In the past I’ve used a variety of JavaScript grid widgets on client sites, and each had a number of pain points: performance, size, flexibility, etc. Sencha’s powerful DataGrid is possibly the best grid I’ve seen yet — let’s have a look. Quick Hits Create responsive tables with filtering, sorting, pagination, AJAX, and much more Handles millions of records with no performance degradation Data import and export capabilities... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: DataGrad, Flexible, from, powerful, Sencha, Sponsored
Simplify Your File Handling With Filestack Workflows (Sponsored) / / No Comments Automation is a really important skill for engineers, especially when it comes to working with various file types. The more you accept for input, and the more you automate, the better end output you can offer. Filestack’s workflows allow developers to define automated tasks using a their specialized UI. With no coding required, it’s easy to create a document workflow and scan every assignment for viruses, quarantine it until it can be reviewed, and alert the sender of the issue so that no work is late. After signing up for a free Filestack account, you can shift to creating your own workflows. When creating your workflow, you can choose from dozens of UI items that represent... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: file, Filestack, handling, Simplify, Sponsored, Workflows