In this article, we’ll walk through how to enhance the user experience of your PhotoBiz website by adding infinite scrolling to a Pinboard page template.

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I’m leading the front end design on a project where we use Google Charts to visualize data for a Java web application. The web app’s front end is built on Bootstrap 4. Anyone familiar with Bootstrap and Material Design (Google’s design language) will immediately recognize the disparities between the two in terms of look and feel. One challenge that presented itself while integrating Google Charts with the Bootstrap framework was how to keep the colors in sync between the two systems. In this post, I’ll cover how I worked Bootstrap 4 theme colors into Google Charts via JavaScript to create integrated-looking data visualizations.

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It happens to all of us. Maybe you trashed the sticky note you wrote the password on. Maybe someone on your dev team changed the database connection credentials and forgot to tell you. Maybe it’s been a while since you last connected to the database, and now when you try to connect, for some unknown reason, it’s not working. Whatever the case, there’s nothing worse than firing up HeidiSQL, receiving a connection error and not being able to tell if the stored password is correct.

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Github was never part of my workflow, so I never went out of my way to learn how to use it.

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