Markus Dosch

Recently Updated Documents

Oct 31 '20
Web Development: Overview & Basic Concepts
You want to learn web development? Then let me give you an overview & some pointers on some important basic concepts.
Oct 4 '20
Improving one's coding skills: Best Practices & Resources
In this document, I present my favorite best practices & resources on improving one's coding skills.

Latest Posts

Aug 4 '21
Hosts file: What is it, why is it useful & how to edit it?
Operating systems like Linux, Windows, and macOS have a so-called 'hosts' file. Let's examine how it can help us in web development!
May 30 '20
Presenting Socket.IO: Building a chat in 70 lines
With Socket.IO, it is very easy to develop real-time web applications. I am going to present how to use it. Let's implement a simple chat in a couple of lines!
May 25 '20
A short historic overview: Building JavaScript apps that receive server events in real-time
When building web apps like chats and multiplayer games, you need to receive events from the server. In the past, such "server push" has been quite difficult to implement. I am going to give an overview on techniques that were used, and how WebSockets make everything better.

Latest “Today I Learned” Snippets

Aug 13 '21
Linux (Debian/Ubuntu): Finding out whether a package is installed
Aug 11 '21
Windows: Adding programs to autostart
Jul 29 '21
Vagrant & VirtualBox shared folders: Getting symlinks to work on a Windows host