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Our Laravel application had grown into a robust platform powered by MySQL, with tables containing dozens of columns and automatic syncing to multiple third-party services. Everything was working smoothly until our client asked for something that sounded simple but wasn’t: the ability to search and sort by nearly every field in the database.
The new requirements were ambitious: search across 47 different columns, sort by any combination of fields, and keep everything lightning fast as the data grew.

Working with SharePoint through the Microsoft Graph API can be tricky, especially when dealing with user lookups. Here's how we solved the User Information List puzzle and made our code work across different languages and tenants.

Krait is a Laravel package that automates the creation of Ajax Dynamic DataTables by combining VueJS components with Laravel functionalities. With a single command-line interface operation, it efficiently generates and connects all necessary front-end and back-end resources, including controllers, routes, Vue components, and table definitions, providing developers with an out-of-the-box working solution. Following Laravel's conventions, developers can define and customize table structures from the back-end, including column configurations and data preprocessing, while maintaining the flexibility to fine-tune the front-end presentation through the generated VueJS components.

Test performance optimization should be an essential part of the whole development process. It should even be part of the main end-user code development - if your mindset points in the direction of “well, if I develop that function/component in this way, how can I test it?”, you probably have already made the most important step of the optimization journey.

We were working on a project related to on-the-edge prerendering of dynamic HTML components using Cloudflare workers, when we observed the problem of parsing and filtering huge amount of JSON data (especially because the project was developed using Typescript). At first glance, everything was clear and simple - Cloudlfare's HTMLRewriter API is amazing - easy to work with and shows unbelievable speed results compared to the other available APIs. But then the data and it's structure came into the game.

A developer journey through the pros and cons of AWS Lambda functions, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and Couldformation (with SAM templates) and the real power of Lambda Powertools and Pydantic.

Recently I had a simple request from a client of ours – to use an embedded video as a design element in the header area of a page. It sounds simple, but it turned out to be tricky. Here are some of the options I found out during my experiments.

Have you ever needed to sign AWS S3 links in Salesforce? If you are here - it seems the answer is yes. For those of you who are not sure why you need an S3 links signing - I’m sure that you heard at least once in the IT news about some big company’s data that was leaked from their cloud. Most of the time it’s because they did not configure the public access to their buckets properly, in case they are using AWS S3.

In the process of creating an UI design it's important to have mock-ups ready as quickly as possible to share and discuss with the client. This is why the prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, Figma and Sketch significantly changed the world of UI/UX design. But what happened with the “father” of them all - Adobe Photoshop? Is there a place for it in a modern web design company's toolbox?

Everyone loves a good story, and this time I’ll tell you about my favorite.
"The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. A striking story. Now the people want to know how the story ends…"

Did you notice that most of the components in details or other tabs in the record page are self refreshing when any action is performed on the main record? This behavior is made with an Aura event called “refreshView”. It is very handy - if you handle this event, it will tell you to refresh your component data. If you dispatch this event, it will tell the other components in the current page to refresh their components data.

Being a web designer for more than 15 years, I often hear comments like “Oh, you make web designs, so you just draw pretty mock-ups?” That's just partly the truth. The true web designers are not just visual artists. They have to get their feet wet in the technical side, as well as to have skills of marketers and even copywriters. In this article I'll share what’s our team’s process of creating a web design, start to finish, from the designer's perspective.

In our previous article, we briefly mentioned the two most common pricing models used by web development agencies - Fixed-price and Time & Material. Our initial intention was to discuss in full detail the advantages and disadvantages of each of these models; however, the internet appears to be overflowing with information on this matter, so we’re just going to share our own experience on pricing. More specifically, we’ll tell you in which cases we used Fixed-price or Time & Material and why we generally prefer one of the approaches. Also, we’ll give some practical advice on what to watch and how to proceed with your web dev project.

These days UI development in Salesforce prefers using Lightning Web Components (LWC) as they are faster and more modern than Lightning Components (aura). Unfortunately, they are still not a complete replacement for Lightning Components. According to this official page for example, a Workspace API is not supported. This API is used for managing the tabs in Console. The Console itself is highly used by the sales teams or other teams that use SoftPhone inside Salesforce. So it seems that we have a problem, the solutions to which are not that complicated.

What would you do, if you had to develop a number of microsites for a client? We faced this issue as a part of a larger project for a real estate portal, which has multiple modules to it. In one of the modules there is an administrative panel through which real estate agents enter certain information about the properties they offer – text, location, video and images, as well as contact information.