This year we will be releasing our brand new podcast Coder's Block to the general public. This is something that we have attempted to do in the past, however, podcasts are difficult as it turns out. Just getting the right software to handle the recording can be a hassle, not to mention that hearing the sound of your own voice is a trauma inducing event. But this time around, we're approaching it with a bit more knowledge on the overall process and more willing to learn as go go through the process.

Since Google became a verb, it has been no secret that they rely heavily on capturing user data, both to serve you better content and to serve their clients better. The clients that purchase ad space, and thus want their ads to go to the appropriate people online. So in order to do this, they have to capture non-personal (sometimes personal) behavioral data and geological data. And most of the time, the people are okay with it, because we get to use cool things like global Maps, real time navigation and a database of content so large that it would take lifetimes to sort out.

Recently I rediscovered an old project on my hard drive that had some potential to change the world (maybe). It was a year old project that was about 80% done, as is usually the case. and it was abandoned because more than likely it became boring at some point in time. So I decided to try to bring it back and shine some new life into it. At least, I attempted to. Now I'll say this, I have been a programmer for the better part of a decade now. So the coding part itself isn't normally a struggle for me. In fact, it's quite a joyful experience. The issues began as soon as I double-clicked on that launch icon, and what followed inevitably left me putting that project back into its hiding place until it is discovered again in another year.

Interviews in general can be nerve-racking meetings regardless of where your current skill level is at. You can be a junior developer and ace all of your questions, or you can be a senior full-stack developer and have no clue about what you were just asked. But while spontaneous at times, there are a few things that you can do to increase your odds of landing that next job. Or rather, here are few things that you should perhaps avoid.

Learning to code traditionally has been a path reserved for those willing to pursue a degree in the field of Computer Science. At least within the past few decades that has been the case. You can look at many of the greatest scientist and engineers at the beginning of the century and realize that many of them did not have any sort of formal training. Thomas Edison himself was self-taught and Nikola Tesla did not complete his formal education, as many of the latest CEO's and innovators tend to do. But somewhere along the line, we pretty much made it mandatory in order to get a job interview.

Technology is rapidly changing these days as the number of developers and companies increases at a surprising rate. It definitely makes sense from a progressive societal standpoint. The more people you have working on a particular field, the more likely it is to evolve and to change, for a few basic reasons. For one, more and more people are beginning to look forward towards the future of that product, which of course always causes the future to eventually get here. And once it does get here, we'll have something that didn't exist before mingling with a bunch of stuff that did exist previously. If you're someone who started their career before that initial alpha moment, then the change is much more noticeable.

And you never thought that algorithm class from college was going to pay off. In this post I'll be going over how to add the ability to sort to any table in JavaScript. All you will need to do is to add the sorting class to the specified table that you wish to add sorting to and then watch the magic happen.

Most programmer's will encounter an infinite loop or two at some point in their careers. Whether it is intentional or not is entirely different story and can lead to two very different situations. They can either be incredibly efficient for helping you run your business, or they can eat up resources much like a black hole would without making a peep. And that's where much of the fun lies. So a quick definition of an infinite loop before anything else.

Coding bootcamps are quickly growing in popularity among younger people not interested in the 4-5 year college route and in older people who are looking for a career change and are within to shell out the money for it. Bootcamps are attractive because they have short curriculum's and because they aren't as strict, in both material and time, as the more traditional college education route. For the most part, most online bootcamps tend to focus on web development with a few of the newer ones incorporating server side JavaScript courses into the mix in order to make them more competitive.

You just got your first programming job and you are both excited and terrified at the same time. And rightly so as software engineering professionally is a whole different experience than software engineering in a school setting, or in a learn at home setting. Now you're getting paid by someone to do whatever it is that they are going to assign to you. And more than likely, it's probably something that you've never done before.