Why I chose MailerLite instead of MailChimp

I was recently building a product launch page for Contact Cache and I wanted to allow people to sign up for product announcements and news. I’ve never collected email addresses or mass-emailed people before. And because I am not heavily involved in marketing, I didn’t know much about the state of email marketing platforms today. […]

Introducing Contact Cache

It has been more than a year since I wanted to have some sort of “personal relationship manager”. In other words I needed a tool to write down notes about people since I am always forgetful. And since at that time I didn’t find anything satisfactory, I decided to build an app for myself that […]

Flask API Quickstart Application with JSON Web Tokens, SQLAlchemy and Pytest

I created a sample Flask application that shows how to create HTTP API with authentication provided by JSON Web Tokens. It can be used to learn a bit about Flask, SQLAlchemy, JSON Web Tokens, Pytest and how it all works together. In particular, it shows how to: hash passwords using bcrypt issue and verify JWT […]

Rockets: Python-based launch page

It has been 2 years already since I first played with Python and Flask and ended up creating Rockets. At the time, I was learning the basics and wanted to create something useful. Rockets is a very simple, one file Flask application that shows a sign up form for collecting email addresses. It uses only […]

How to reference hidden elements in Vue.js

In Vue.js we can reference either Vue.js component or a standard DOM element by marking it with ref=”ourReferenceName” inside the HTML tag and later access this element easily inside the component with this.$refs.ourReferenceName. Let’s have a look at a simple component example:

<template>
  <div>
    <div ref="referencedElement"></div>
  </div>
</template>

<div>

</div>

</template>

<script>
export default {
  methods: {
    accessElement() {
      const element = this.$refs.referencedElement
      // TODO: do something with the element
    }
  }
}
</script>

export default {

methods: {

accessElement() {

const element = this.$refs.referencedElement

// TODO: do something with the element

}

</script>

So far so good. The problem comes when we want to […]

Using validate.js instead of Vuelidate in Vue.js applications

When I first needed some basic form of validation in my Vue.js application, I discovered and used Vuelidate, a popular validation library written specifically for Vue.js. Vuelidate is simple to use and works pretty well inside Vue.js components. It validates all different data sources in a component, based on the validation criteria provided as a […]

On being a senior developer

On being a senior developer is separated into multiple parts, feel free to read the first part On being a senior developer: introduction if you haven’t read it yet. This time I want to look at skills, knowledge and behavioral characteristics that I personally associate with senior software developers. This article is not the definitive […]

On being a senior developer: introduction

Even though it could be, this is not an article about the elderly. If you are here by accident, click here. If not, let’s dive in. I have wanted to write about the topic of being a senior engineer for some time, because I think a lot of people don’t have a clear understanding of […]

Why SCRUM doesn’t work?

Let’s start by saying that companies hardly do SCRUM by the book. I will never forget a project manager, who, after he arrived to the office one day put a big “SCRUM” on our whiteboard and announced that from now on we will be doing SCRUM. You wouldn’t guess what we did afterwards. Every morning, […]

How to communicate with Angular components outside of Angular

Recently I had to figure out the way to interact with Angular components from outside of Angular, from plain JavaScript rendered to a page. In my case I was opening a modal dialog written in Angular from a traditional server-side rendered page. I imagine I am not the only one who needs to mix Angular […]