Welcome to Hot Web Dev September 2024, featuring the latest technology and web development news. September has been a bumper month with the release of MacOS Sequoia and iOS 18. Finally, built-in windows snapping. Another cool feature is iPhone mirroring. This month’s edition covers WordPress and the battle with its creator and a company that doesn’t like to give back. The tool of the month is a suite of handy tools that works in the browser and doesn’t require uploading any data to a server.
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WordPress Woes
WordPress is an open-source platform developed in 2003 and has powered a large percentage of the web ever since. Its creator Matt Mullenweg wanted to make a difference in the open-source world and as a result, the source code for WordPress is available for anyone in the world to use and contribute to, if they do so wish.
Non-technical users who wish to use WordPress for their website and not install it manually can choose hosts that offer a quick installation. Furthermore, in recent years managed hosting has become popular where managing the infrastructure has been removed leaving the user to concentrate on creating the content.
The only downside to this is that companies can make huge profits from open-source code. WP is trademarked and using it there should be a payment, whether a licensing fee or helping to contribute to the community. Unfortunately, not all companies comply with these regulations and gain substantial profits without ever giving back.
Learning Resources
Class Central is a site for gathering courses from many providers on many subjects. It has published a report with over 900+ free developer and IT certifications. Courses include learning Java, Python, JavaScript, and C#, as well as computer science, AI, and Cyber Security.
Angular made a comeback in recent years. Although difficult to master in previous years the latest version is much easier to master. If you fancy trying out Angular there is a 8-hour course for beginners on YouTube.
Coding Resources
Following last month’s edition of Wow and the discussion on PHP, is it still worth learning in 2025? Of course, it is and this handy article goes over many reasons why you shouldn’t ditch it yet. Do you agree? Cheat sheets are a popular method of accessing all the basics in one reference file.
Awesome cheat sheets cover programming languages such as PHP and JavaScript. Frontend frameworks include Vue, Angular and React. Server-side frameworks include Node, Django and Laravel. You can even find reference sheets on tools such as Kubernetes and Docker in one place.
WOW Tool Of The Month
Do you ever want to format or minify CSS or JavaScript or generate lorem ipsum for your document? If so you may wish to bookmark True Dev Tools. The client-side app comprises more than 45+ tools including Image compressors, converters and resizers. A regex tester, word counter, markdown previewer and various text tool converters. One positive about the suite of tools is that you don’t need to send anything to a server as everything is done on the front end, inside the browser. You can also install it as an app on your desktop.
The Best of the Rest in September 2024
- Become a Better Java Developer: 19 Tips for Staying Ahead in 2024
- How to Build Good Coding Habits as a New Python Developer
- How JS works behind the scenes
- Building a Developer Platform
- Roadmap to Learning C Programming
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