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Why Windows 7 Is Still So Popular

It's been some years since Windows 7 came out, and apparently, I never got over it, as I sit here today on my Windows 7 laptop with about 8

Nikola Tesla died penniless, and that's alright

Nikola Tesla has been making the news rounds lately, probably due to his recent birthday. Happy late birthday Mr. Tesla. And after reading

Fireside Chat With Joel Spolsky

Just recently I had the privilege to attend a talk by Joel Spolsky, co-creator of Stack Overflow and creator of Fog Creek Software, and it

I For One, Welcome Our Robot Overlords

Kind of... Lately, there's been alot of talk on the internet about robots and "AI" taking away 200% of the jobs in the country in the ne

Thank You StackOverflow

For a while I believed that just maybe StackOverflow was a crutch for many programmers. That maybe it was causing us to forgot how to code

The Sharpie Steel Pen Review

If you read my previous post on the importance of sketching your code, then you know that I'm a huge fan of getting ideas out on pen and pa

For as long as I can remember, I was both aware and unaware of Pi. And I took it for granted really. 3.14. That's all that was known from

Advice For New Computer Science Grads

Graduation season is upon us and with that, many fresh grads are leaving the warm shelter of A+ tests to the colder realms of "Yes, I have

Welcome To My Tech Blog

I have been writing software for over a decade now, and it has led me to this blog. I have spent years going to lunch with co-workers spend

Why you should give up multitasking

Multitasking has been my enemy for as long as I can remember, I just didn't know it at the time. The concept of multitasking is fantastic.

Ok Google On Desktop Is A Start

Google just released their newest "OK Google" feature on the Chrome Browser for all to revel in and enjoy and it is..ok. Personally, I've

5 Steps To Making Your Website More Secure

Security is one of those things that are normally saved for last or ignored completely when working on a website nowadays. As most people h

It's Time To Make Your Sites Mobile Friendly

Google just released a brand new algorithm update that should hopefully give a tiny bit more credibility to websites that follow proper mob

Top 5 Coding Blunders

No matter how many people learn it, and how many online schools open up for it, working on software is hard. Whether it's a mobile app, or

Why Comments Are Hard

Comments are in every corner of the interwebs. Sometimes they're wise, sometimes they incite good heated conversation and sometimes they li

Working As A Full Stack Developer

I've been a 'full-stack' developer for the better part of 6 years now, and it's been an amazing time. In comparison to when I was just that

Revisiting My Bug Ridden Code And Found All This

Every couple of months I like to go back to an old project and show it some love and attention. And every few months I'm surprised at how o

Software Development: Why We're Doing It Wrong

A long time ago, great men walked the Earth. Now too, just not so many. Back then these men read books from age 2 and onward and they were

Setting Up Workspaces In Chrome Developer Tools

How many times do you load up Google Dev Tools in order to make styling changes on the fly? If you're like me, then that's the first place