Images are a feature of nearly all apps, enhancing UX and improving user-generated content. Once, you had to be an expert in visual computing and artificial intelligence — developing and maintaining a completely different technology stack — just to remove the background from an image. Well, not any more. Remove.bg is a service that provides an easy-to-use API for performing background removal…

One of our clients recently asked us to review existing third-party payment processors, with an eye toward selecting one for integration with an existing web application we have developed for them. Here is a summary of our research. We started our search by reviewing payment processors that support recurring payments, since that feature seems to be of critical importance to the overall solution. In other words, we don’t want a user to enter their credit card info every time that they purchase a service. To that end, here are some online resources we reviewed…

jQuery is an absolute requirement for any browser-based application or site. Why write 100 lines of DOM manipulation code using the W3C API when you can do the same work in 3 lines of jQuery? Plus, there are hundreds if not thousands of jQuery-based plugins available, many either free or modestly priced. These plugins solve common problems so that you don't have to.

The jQuery Cheatsheet is a great resource for summarizing the functionality that jQuery provides. It categorizes all of the jQuery entry points into useful categories (Selectors, Attributes, Manipulation, Traversing, Events, Effects, Ajax, Core) and provides a useful search ability.

Django is a free and open-source, Python-based web framework that follows the model–template–views (MTV) architectural pattern. Django's primary goal is to ease the creation of complex, database-driven websites. The framework emphasizes reusability of components, less code, low coupling, rapid development, and the principle of don't repeat yourself. But, Django does not support the non-relational, no-SQL Google BigTable database, hence the creation of Django Non-Rel, used by various projects started back in the 2010 timeframe. Django Non-Rel was a non-sanctioned spin-off from Django version 1.x circa 2010, built on Python 2. Never supported by the Django project or Google, Django Non-Rel was long ago abandoned by developers.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is transforming energy through research, development, commercialization, and deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. The laboratory's developer network helps developers access and use energy data via Web services, including renewable energy and alternative fuel data.

Finite Wisdom has implemented a demonstration…