Programmers Digest

CDK  -  a company that provides software to auto dealerships for loan information and other services was recently attacked by ransomware, resulting in thousands of auto dealerships to resort to pen and paper methods to complete auto loans and other services. CDK has indicated they intend to pay the ransom and will take several days to restore services. Follow the youtube link below to learn more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynW-FBZUdhg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhOH5emalG0

Great article on becoming a product manager and what they do. https://blog.hubspot.com/the-hustle/become-product-manager

 Beginning  in February 2023 Spain will allow digital nomad visas for remote workers. A list of the requirements include You must be a citizen of a country outside the European Union. You must be employed by a non-Spanish company (or companies, for freelancers) for at least three months prior to your application. The company must be at least a year old.  Provide documentation showing your job can be completed remotely. Have a university degree or three years of professional experience.  Make at least 200% of Spain's monthly minimum wage of €1,260 (which currently calculates to around $32,445 a year).  Any additional income made within Spain cannot exceed 20% of your total salary. Have no criminal record in the past 5 years, both in Spain and your home country.  You must have health insurance.  Read more about it here: https://www.businessinsider.com/spain-digital-nomad-visa-january-2023-tax-income-requirements-2022-11

Great article about landing pages... https://lassonde.utah.edu/5-types-of-website-landing-pages-and-which-one-you-should-use/ These are the most common  5 types but there are many others! Squeeze Page Long Form Landing Page Click Through Landing Page Product Details Page Video Landing Page

 A great article about the color wheel and complimentary, color combinations. https://uxplanet.org/analogous-colors-and-color-wheel-609a05b5b90e

On the quest to keep sharpening and improving my skills, I came across a recommended service. Leetcode offers daily challenges and skills assessments in many popular programming languages. https://leetcode.com

Here is a list of common data patterns that every programmer should know about with a helpful youtube video. https://youtu.be/tv-_1er1mWI -           Singleton -           Prototype -           Builder -           Factory -           Façade -           Proxy -           Iterator -           Observer -           Mediator -           Switch

Working in visual studio plain vanilla can be tough, at first it can seem like nothing more than a text editor. Thanks to various training videos I have been working through, these were the most helpful plug-ins so far! Auto Rename Tag HTML Boilerplate  Javascript (ES6) Code Snippets Live Server

What was in demand for 2022?!    Top programming language = JavaScript -           Top database = MySQL -           Top Cloud Platform = AWS -           Top Web Framework = Node.js -           Other Top Tools             o     npm o    Docker o     GIT o    Visual Studio Code

Some times you just need tools to test your new app!   I found some of the following tools from Microsoft useful for stress testing, presentation and VM management. These tool and many others can be found for free on the link below. -             Testlimit : can be used to stress test your application or PC. -           Zoomit : cool presentation tool. -           RDCMan : manage multiple remote desktop connections. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/