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Hello NodeJSP | Hello World - The Next Level

Our first Hello World example was great and all, but while the console is extremely helpful for debugging, we actually want to put things in the browser, don’t we? So let’s do that now! To be able to access our code from a webbrowser we will need a server. The standard-server for NodeJS is ExpressJS, so that’s what we will be using as well.
By paranerd | Sep 17, 2018

How To Do The Holy Grail Layout With CSS-Grid

I already gave an introduction to what the Holy Grail layout actually is in my previous post. So in this post we’re mainly going to focus on building the exact same thing, only this time with CSS-Grids. But first, a little introduction to CSS-Grids: What are CSS-Grids? The CSS-Grid-Layout is a fairly new layout system in CSS.
By paranerd | Sep 14, 2018

How To Do The Holy Grail Layout With Flexbox

For those of you who never heard about a “Holy Grail Layout”: it refers to a web page layout that starts with a full-width header at the top of the page, followed by three columns containing the main content adjacent to two sidebars, all above a footer down at the bottom of the page (that stays there no matter the size of the main content).
By paranerd | Sep 14, 2018

How To Reset The MySQL root password

The number of times I lost access to my MySQL-Database because I forgot the password is probably rather embarrassing. In uncounted web-searches I came up with several solutions to reset it. Some of them worked but were utterly difficult and some plainly didn’t work at all. To save you the hassle of finding the best solution, I will just give it to you right now.
By paranerd | Sep 13, 2018

How To Create Your Own HTTPS-Certificate With Let's Encrypt

Making your website secure has been one of the major tasks in web developement since… ever. And it’s only gotten more relevant over time. Google has even begun tagging http-Sites as “Not secure” as of July 2018. And for good reason: encrypting traffic to and from your site using SSL is one big step towards a more secure web.
By | Sep 11, 2018