React Native takes a giant leap forward

October 30, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

React Native’s New Architecture is Here — With the release of React Native 0.76, the so-called ‘New Architecture’ becomes the default. This opens up numerous modern React features like useLayoutEffect and Suspense, as well as better ways to work with native interfaces without a bridge (in short,…

How to Build a Web App: Beginner’s Guide (2025)

October 29, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

How many apps do you regularly use on your web? 5? 10? More?  We bet you know — the battle for the user’s attention is fierce. But this does not mean it’s time to give up on your web app idea. To be competitive, you…

Node 22 is now in LTS

October 29, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node v22.11.0 ‘Jod’ Released; Becomes Active LTS Release — With this release, Node 22 flips from being the ‘Current’ cutting edge release to being a dependable release with the all-important LTS (Long Term Support) designation. It is, however, broadly the same as Node v22.10. Richard Lau…

A huge week for both Svelte and Next.js

October 24, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Svelte 5 is Alive — The long awaited next major release of Svelte, the compiler-driven JS UI framework, is the “most significant release in the project’s history”, while remaining largely backwards compatible. A big addition is runes for explicitly declaring reactive state, but there’s much…

How The Right CRM Platform Can Transform Your Sales Game

October 23, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Don’t let your sales team fall behind — learn why picking the right CRM is key to your business’ growth. When sales teams struggle with managing customer relationships, they risk losing valuable opportunities. Studies show that companies with effective customer relationship management (CRM) systems have…

Why You Should Consider a Custom CRM for Your Business

October 23, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Currently, 82% of businesses use CRM systems. Many of them — Custom CRM.  What they noticed is that each dollar invested gives $8.71. Their customer retention rate has also increased! With numbers like these, it’s little wonder businesses think if they should be investing in…

Introducing the new Amazon Q Developer experience in AWS Lambda

October 23, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

AWS Lambda recently announced a new code editor based on Code-OSS. Like the previous version, the new editor includes Amazon Q Developer. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant for software development that can help you build and debug Lambda functions more quickly. In…

Node v23, and a proper hello to Express v5

October 22, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Node v23.0.0 (Current) Released — Say hello to the newest release line of Node.js that gets all the cutting edge features first (Node 22 will soon become the active LTS release). v23 notably enables support for loading ES modules with require() by default, drops 32-bit…

Code security scanning with Amazon Q Developer

October 20, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

A primary objective of software developers is to develop products that uphold the highest standards of data privacy and security, fostering trust and confidence among their users and customers. Developers seek to secure their software by identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in their codebase, thereby…