It’s time to add some new useful features in good-old class inheritance in object-oriented programming. I’ve talked about classes and objects in the previous article. A simple class has a parent and consists of members: properties and methods. Let’s stay class members for my next article and talk about inheritance. …

Well-known facts about classes and objects in object-oriented programming are absolutely fascinating if you look at them with the eyes wide open. Object-oriented programming (from now on OOP) is based on two key concepts: classes and objects. A class is a blueprint for creating objects, providing initial values for the…

Hexspeak is an exciting way to write English words using hexadecimal digits. The idea is on the surface: hex digits use six first letters of the English alphabet. Let’s use them to write “digital” words; for instance, the word “cafe” is a 16-bit binary number 0xcafe. And what about digits…

Who are the ancestors of a contemporary web app? The answer to this question brings us back to the early 1990-s, when the Internet was filled in with the text documents in the form of static HTML pages. Later it became possible to add images, video and audio files to…

Two weeks ago I published a blog article thinking about what a web app actually is, or what it shall be. I’m deeply convinced that web apps shall not be developed like docs, and three-to-five programming languages are too much in a process where one language is more than enough. …

The world’s most neoteric web app terms from A to Z — A Aplextor Technology and toolset for development, deployment and runtime support of web applications. Allows developing web apps the same way you develop native apps — with the same processes, patterns, and even programming languages. aplex Extended web application in Aplextor Architecture. Unlike common web app, aplex has server and browser…

Web applications, web apps, progressive web apps and PWA became a new mainstream in the software development within the last few years. The common meaning of the term is “Any software that runs in a web browser” (see definition on TechTerms). Right. …