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Drink Coffee → Stay Awake
With Easter just around the corner, the SitePoint office has been abuzz with everyone jovially discussing what we are going to do over the break (personally, this author is going to be doing her laundry… ALL her laundry). So it was very sobering to see videos coming in on Monday of the fire that’s engulfed the 800 year old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
It's sad to see hundreds of years of culture, art and history go up in flames, so here's a few other things from the internet that might help cheer you up:
- This very adorable video that encapsulates the idiom “the chain is only as strong as its weakest link”;
News that 19 of the 28 EU member countries voted into law the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. A divisive directive that aims to protect content creators (yay!) But may have the unintended consequences of reducing free speech online (boo!); and
This vintage SitePoint article from 2008 we found in our archives. Top 5 Tips for Staying Awake - still offers some very sound advice!
Wiley is Now in the Library!
We announced a few weeks ago our new partnership with Wiley, where we'll be bringing you a collection of their best web dev and design titles. Well, we're pleased to announce that Swift in the Cloud is the first title to be released as part of this exciting partnership.
Conquer the complexities of microservices-based development with the Python tooling ecosystem. Build efficient and lightweight microservices in Python using Flask, Tox, and other tools. Learn to use Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services to deploy your services.
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From the Blog...
We've recently updated our Beginner's Guide to npm - the Node Package Manager to reflect the latest best practices of npm. Check it out to brush up on the latest, or just to wrap your head around npm for the first time.
Here are 9 helpful tools for React development. Nothing else to say about that really...
Want to learn how to fetch data from a third-party API? Well you're in luck! We can show you how to do so using Vue.js and Axios.
Community Learning
There's currently a fun challenge going on in the Community. Find the minimum number of swap operations Mary must perform to order all n items by decreasing popularity rating. Go check it out and see if you have an answer to the problem!
- SitePoint Team
