Does anyone know of any good resources for learning to make web apps (specifically HTML and CSS)? I'm not aiming to be a web designer, I just want to learn to make UIs for dashboards and stuff. Are there any particularly good code-alongs for something like that where they explain the caveats and gotchas?

A while back I was learning web development so I could create web apps. I'm by no means any good at graphic design and whatnot, so every time I'd make a page to rig up with some JS I would get really frustrated with trying to make the page look decent and professional (not professional quality design, but usable as an application in a professional setting), even with bootstrap.

Does anyone have tips for getting over that hurdle? I want to learn, but I get discouraged by my graphical ineptitude.

Do you guys have anything to add to this list?

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I've founded a startup and we're making the world a better place through inter process messaging and signaling frameworks utilizing politically correct race and sexual orientation emoji for more efficient SaaS and PaaS data center communications. We're MoLoSo.

Is there a server side framework that will build a website for me? I'm not a web dev, but I'd like to build a web app. What I'm looking for is a framework that will essentially be like a GUI framework and build the html and requisites. I prefer Python, but I'm still curious if it exists at all.

If you haven't heard of Plini, go check them out, if you have, they just released a new album. Go listen, it's awesome.

It's like Final Fantasy music, but more groovy than ambient.

I got myself a new monitor, 2560x1080 (21:9). LG 25UM58-P on sale at NewEgg and NCIX, I paid $200CAD.

What are your favorite Java books? I'd like something that goes from the ground up. It doesn't have to be for a beginner programmer, but someone new to Java.

Microsoft released PowerShell for Linux. Why? They released IE for OS X way back and we all know how that turned out....

My goal is to become as good a debugger as Mr Miyagi with chops sticks.

I used to work in a tech shop. Old lady brings her laptop in claiming viruses broke her Gmail. I do the diagnostic, it's relatively clean with a bit of browser adware and tracking cookies. I call her and let her know there was nothing wrong with her Gmail and that it's good to go (she approved a tune up). She comes in and gets it. She calls later saying Gmail is still broken. I invite her to bring it in so we can have a look together (knowing for sure she was the problem). So we open up Gmail together and she shows me what she's doing. She's clicking on the sender and getting the contact card instead of the email opening. I show her how to actually open the email. She doesn't understand. I spend twenty more minutes explaining how to open an email. And this is the wk13 kicker, she waits until after twenty minutes to ask what "click" means. I was so done. That lady was too old to be using a computer.

Does enki have more than one game? Or are they just staging them out?

https://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt/

Has anyone actually implemented this? If yes, thank you, and please share.

I'm looking to get better at Python. Does anyone have any suggestions for good books or sites that run you through the standard library and maybe a few extras?

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I know compiled languages will always be the norm for performance applications and operating systems. But do you guys feel like general purpose applications are moving away from compiled languages to interpreted ones? Web apps are exceedingly common now, and even many server infrastructural applications and services are being coded in interpreted languages. Am I observing accurately, or is just maybe my exposure?

If you guys want some motivational coding music, try this. These guys are absolutely amazing. A treat to the ears.

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Am I the only one that has a hard time with front end development? I'm trying to learn Qt using PySide and it's kicking my ass.

I think that everyone should take the time to look at this rant. It's never too late to start learning something. Everyone has their down days, maybe it would be worth it to favourite or bookmark this rant.

https://www.devrant.io/rants/121555

Does anyone have any good crash courses in C++? I'm not looking to learn it to program in it, just to be able to read it. I want to use Qt in Python, but much of the documentation is missing or incomplete, so I'd like to be able to use the original C++ instead, but I can't understand have of the esoteric use of symbols.

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They have loads of variety. I'm an Arch Linux guy, so I bought a bunch of that. Even if you don't buy anything, it's fun to look.

Since there are so many Arch users, what kind of desktop environments are you running? I've been running Gnome3/Wayland and it's awesome, although I get a bit of screen tear, but it's tolerable.

@dfox would be a huge process to add polls/surveys as a feature? I see a lot of "what do you use?" posts, I think it would be awesome if they could be facilitated and possibly measured.

I can't imagine programming before web browsers had tabs. I don't think I could live in such a dark, twisted, masochistic world.

I like tmux, what are the favored terminal multiplexers on devRant?

Hey, Jupiter, all your base are belong to us.

I'm seeing so many UDP jokes, just repost after repost. Can you guys just stop? I never get them.

Anyone else's blood boil when TV shows abuse tech terminology? Like the 'hacker' saying "connecting the virtual TCP to the neural net."

test = type(parent) not in child.__bases__