It’s been a while since I worked in Angular. For the past year, I’ve been working mostly in React. Recently I was tasked with completing a feature in an Angular project. So I did what any normal developer would do that is rusty with a certain topic, I took a refresher course with Pluralsight. This […]
Recently at my job I was asked to come up with a vision of my next level up (I prefer to use level up as opposed to a raise or promotion because rewards are never guaranteed but change is, whether its up or down). I have to determine what things I need to do to […]
You can use technology for years and yet still only be touching only the tip of the iceberg. Recently I needed to extract the least significant bytes out of a long number in Java. In some cases I needed the 8 bits, in others, it was 16 or 32 bits. That task can be accomplished […]
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, […]
