I recently helped someone fix a project that was done purely in Javascript (with JQuery) and HTML . His project was 90% completed but that 10% was composed of major issues, causing the project to fail in major ways. Everything seems to be harder in Javascript. I’m still trying to find ways to pinpoint the […]
When I first started programming I didn’t even think about keeping up. It was hard enough just to meet the project’s goals. Now if you just the realm of line-of-business applications, there are so many options of technologies that it will make your head spin. So many that in fact, it may be hard to […]
I don’t even know what the difference is between coding and programming and try as you may, it will be hard to convince me with any explanation. I think it’s really just a play on words. We may say that coding is just writing the code and programming is actually designing the algorithms. To me, […]
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure policy for details. A recent tweet got me thinking about software architecture. The question on twitter was something along the lines of “Are there any good resources for software architecture or is Clean Code good enough”. “Are there any good resources for software architecture or is […]
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure policy for details. I recently visited the problem of creating a priority queue. I don’t think I’ve ever had created one from scratch. I’m not even sure that I understood the whole binary heap thing until I got deep into this problem. I won’t attempt to […]
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure policy for details. I originally wrote this post in December of 2009. Being that it is quite popular I decided to migrate it to my current blog. As I migrated this article I noticed that the code link was no longer available. If you are visiting […]
I wrote this post in December of 2009 but since it is quite popular I decided to migrate it to my current blog. I had a conversation over the weekend with one of my colleagues because I didn’t understand the difference between an Inversion of Control (IoC) container and a Service Locator. After our twitter conversation, […]
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure policy for details. This Post was originally written in October 2011 for my former blog but being that it is quite popular I decided to migrate it to this blog Learn more about network programming in C# So I decided to dig into understanding how Asp.net […]
If your primary hardware tool for your job is a computer, chances are there are things that you do repetitively every day, probably several times throughout the day. Maybe you find yourself clicking through several folders to get to a particular file or using the start menu to launch a particular program. Perhaps you run […]
I have a series of posts that I want to blog about over the next few weeks. The topics of these posts are things that will help you become better at solving puzzle problems. They are not the solutions themselves but rather some of the tools that you should have in your toolbelt to help […]
