Author Archives: Mirko Benedetti

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Laravel Rest API, the easy introduction Tutorial

This article follows another one talking about a Symfony Rest API, which we made to exemplify the concept of RESTful applications.

The Php programming language

This is the turn of Laravel, in that we are already able to write a PHP API in a simple way, but we still don’t know how easy it is with this other framework. So let’s get started.

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Why Blockchain technology will be a key factor for the Web of tomorrow

One the main concepts when dealing with human relations is accord and consensus. This will the subject of a tech related post such as this one, we will talk about the Blockchain protocol.

Blockchain Technology Markets

Blockchain is a hyped word on the internet and that’s why when we talk about it, we often identify the term with Bitcoin, money and payment methods.

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Minimal Symfony Rest API Tutorial

In this tutorial I’m gonna show you some basic tricks which will allow you to write a simple RESTful API, or at least to begin to.

If you read this previuos tutorial you’ll be aquainted with Symfony‘s CRUD operations and it’s gonna be easy for me to tell you how to proceed.

Symfony the web framework

The first thing you’re gonna have to do is to setup your environment, to do that I advice you to install Xammp in order to have PHP and MySQL working on your machine.

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Quick RESTful API with Node.js Express and DocumentDB

In this episode we’ll be continuing our journey through Node.js, looking at a simple and minimal RESTful API example with the help of Express to build it, and DocumentDB for our persistence.

The old plain JavaScript language

If you haven’t done before, take a look at this tutorial which is conceptually similar, except for the fact that persistence this time is based on a MongoDB engine, hosted on AWS, and it’s called DocumentDB.

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Easy RESTful API with Node.js Express and MySQL

One of the modern paradigms of Software Development is the use of RESTful APIs which can simplify and make life a lot easier for engineers when it comes to building APIs and webservices.

The JavaScript programming language

This tutorial is far from explaining you all the details about REST and Microservices, nonetheless it can give you good guidance for the beginning of your learning of these technologies.

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Ruby to S3, an introduction guide to its AWS SDK

And finally we land into the world of Ruby, which has one of the most richest and finest SDKs when it comes to AWS.

This tutorial is based on Ubuntu WSL, the subshell for the Redmond’s OS, and you can download it easily from the Microsoft store.

Although recommended for the purposes of this guide, I think you can make it even if you are on a vanilla Ubuntu installation or virtual machine.

The Ruby programming language

The first thing is to install Ruby on WSL, I chose RVM to install and manage different versions of the language on the same operating system. Once you’re logged on WSL, issue the following commands, and everything should work fine:

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Symfony 4: a CRUD tutorial, second edition

This tutorial follows another guide that I made, always about Symfony, but this time we’re talking about Symfony 4.

As the framework evolves into new releases there might be some changes in methods, classes and tools. They may become deprecated or obsolete and new tools may be added, although some kind of retrocompatibility may be assured.

Symfony the web framework

If you want to know more about that, you can visit Symfony’s roadmap and discover how it will evolve and how long the various versions will be maintained.

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Node.js to AWS S3, my introduction guide to the SDK

Dynamic languages may seem to be error prone in some ways because they often don’t have something like a compile time check and so on.

Take the case of Node.js, it has a high level of abstraction (you don’t have to face the bare metal of your machine) and its simplicity and conciseness of syntax allow us to write a lot less code.

The JavaScript programming language

Verbose code like the one written in Java leaves not doubt about what the program intends to do yes, but it can be tiring to write or even to read; although many IDEs can help with their autocomplete.

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