Category: Tools

Modern Full-Stack Web Frameworks: When to use What and Why

by Federico Ramirez
Posted in All, Business, Front-end Design, Front-end Development, JavaScript, Mobile Development, Node.js, Python, React, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Tools, Web Development

When it comes to choosing web development technologies, we now have more options than ever. And while that’s a good thing, it also poses a problem. Answering the question, “What is the ideal technology for this new project?” is not as easy as it used to be. In this post, I briefly highlight the most popular full-stack web frameworks, and why you might want to choose each of them.

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Integrating your dev workflow with WSL

by Federico Ramirez
Posted in All, productivity, Tools, Vim, Web Development

Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL for short, is a quite impressive piece of technology, and one of the best moves Microsoft could have made to attract developers. Particularly web developers.

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Which Server-Side Swift Framework Is Best For Your Project?

by Beezwax Team
Posted in Mobile Development, Software Design, Swift, Tools, Web Development

Server-side Swift is making waves in the web and services worlds, and developers from iOS, web and other coding backgrounds are increasingly joining the server-side Swift community. There’s just one problem (a good one): How do you choose which open-source Swift framework to use?
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ePubber – generating ePub files with Ruby

by Federico Ramirez
Posted in All, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Tools, Web Development

ePub is a digital book format which is pretty common nowadays. It’s supported natively by Windows and Android and it’s one of the official formats for digital books in the Apple Books store.

In this post I’ll talk about generating ePub files with Ruby and how to painlessly integrate this feature to your application. I’ll be using a Ruby gem I created called ePubber, which I created to help manage ePub content.

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Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 1: Git

by Colin Lieberman
Posted in productivity, Tools, Unix, Web Development

While the attribution may be hazy, the notion of laziness being an attribute of a good programmer is popular. I don’t know how good of a programmer I am, but I am really lazy.

So lazy that if I find myself doing something over and over, I write a script to do it for me the next time. Continue reading “Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 1: Git” →

Server-Side Swift: New Hero in Web Town

by Brian Schick
Posted in All, Mobile Development, Swift, Tools, Web Development

There’s a new hero in the world of web applications, services, and microservices: Server-Side Swift is making serious waves across the industry. At Beezwax, it’s changing how we approach and solve many typical, long-standing coding challenges.

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Large d3.js Application Development

by Ryan Simms
Posted in All, Data Analytics, Front-end Design, Front-end Development, JavaScript, Software Design, Tools, Web Development
“Code that belongs”. This is the mantra, the quest, of Beezwax Senior Developer Ryan Simms; which he discusses in this ten-part article on building a large-scale web application using d3.js. How to write code that fits the context intrinsically. The article focuses on specific techniques with the data visualization library, d3.js. But the lessons are broad. How do you make something fit — in ways that make it feel like it belongs?

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Introducing ‘Publish To Apple News’ – Open Source WordPress Plugin

by Jay Gonzales
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Community, Design, Tools, Web Development, WordPress

We’re thrilled to announce the availability of the Publish To Apple News plugin for WordPress. It’s an open source plugin for the WordPress web platform that enables publishers to push their blog and website content to News, Apple’s all-new app available with iOS 9.
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Useful Vim Mappings

by Shivam Daryanani
Posted in All, productivity, Tools, Unix, Vim, Web Development

A few mappings to help boost your Vim workflow.

Rotate through different line numbering settings

Switch between absolute line numbers (normal), relative numbers (based on distance from your cursor) and no numbers at all using CTRL-n:

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