Programming

The concept of black-box modeling isn't anything new in the software developer world. It essentially comes down to hiding the comp...Read more

If you're programming on a Windows machine, then chances are you probably haven't dabbled much in PHP. So today let's take PHP for a spin u...Read more

Sure, the reds, blues, and purples on the IDE look like a ton of fun, but there comes a time when stying a nav bar for 2 hours just isn't a...Read more

Anyone that knows me knows that I'm a huge fan of coding everything by hand. Using plugins or 3rd party libraries is always last on my list...Read more

Pagination is a vital UI/UX element that is usually overlooked by many developers. It makes navigating through data easier, but it comes at ...Read more

Just as an author sometimes requires a quick brainstorm in order to get his/her thoughts in order, so do programmers require something simi...Read more

You just got your first programming job and you are both excited and terrified at the same time. And rightly so as software engineering p...Read more

There are a million and one ways to learn to code nowadays. Everything from a formal college education, to books, to free online classes to...Read more

On a recent blog post I wrote about notepad being one of my most used developer tools. And that was mainly due to its ease of use, its pe...Read more

Just recently I spent a few hours attempting to make an overly complex SQL query into a reality. From the beginning, it didn't really feel ...Read more

I first began "programming" in 2002 during my senior year in High School. I chose Python as the language of choice, mainly because it was th...Read more

Most programmer's will encounter an infinite loop or two at some point in their careers. Whether it is intentional or not is entirely.....Read more

There are main 2 ways that you'll be working in an office environment if you're a programmer. And that's either in a cubicle, which we've s...Read more

A programmer's main job in their career is to write 'code'. To create variables, functions and looping mechanisms to accomplish some form of...Read more

Recently the President proposed a 4 billion dollar plan that would enable public schools to teach computer science courses to everyone from...Read more

A while back I wrote about the beauty in failing. It's almost like an art really. And it's unavoidable. Things will fail regardless of how ...Read more

Many of you have been trying to learn to code for weeks, months or even years and as soon as you feel like you are getting somewhere and thi...Read more

For the most part, programming is usually a one man/woman job. You get your task, and you fire up your IDE and you get to work. You miss a ...Read more

If there's one benefit to working for any tech company, it is that most allow you (the programmers) the freedom to drown out your entire su...Read more

Technology is rapidly changing these days as the number of developers and companies increases at a surprising rate. It definitely makes sen...Read more

No doubt you have seen the ads online for the latest "no-code" web development tools, such as WebFlow, and wondered if programmer's were bec...Read more

Just recently I was in the process of writing a new blog post on Progressive Web Applications. In the post, I was going to document my conv...Read more

Many people will have you believe that language A is better than B, is better than C. And if you're new to programming, you might be inclin...Read more

There is alot that goes into being a software developer nowadays. When I was in college we used a text editor and we typed some commands. B...Read more

You may never notice it, as you shortcut your way across your keyboard with Winkey + R => "notepad", but you use it more than anything else...Read more

Full stack developers are hard to come by nowadays, just ask any hiring manager at most companies. Even myself, working for a startup, I pe...Read more

The definition of Computer Scientist has changed many times during the past century. Even more so now with the popularization and novelty o...Read more

If you remember your first day in high school, or any school, it's alot like that. You don't know anyone or where anything is. There's alot ...Read more

To those new individuals entering the programming job world currently, thoughts and ideas of high paying salaries, high tech sounding titles...Read more

Ideally, you should be familiar with mathematics in whatever field you find yourself in life. At least to the extent that it makes sense to ...Read more

Studying Computer Science in college is unusually difficult. I say unusual, because 80% of all that science concepts taught will probably o...Read more

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...Read more

YouTube ads and Instagram posts make coding seem like a fun sticker filled evening with excellent cups of coffee and gorgeous scenery's of ...Read more

This is one the most popular question that I get asked from people looking to get into web development.Should I go to college for 5% of my h...Read more

I'm a huge fan of the idea that I can take my code and go anywhere with it. On a plane, on a train, and even in the rain. Except that for n...Read more

Try googling the same query and I bet you’ll see dozens of answers to it! “Should I read every answer?” Do you have enough time? What’s gre...Read more

This is the year that you shed a few pounds, quit that stressful job or take that long awaited vacation in some remote island where your bo...Read more

Aside from the ever increasing job market in the technology sector that sees no end in sight, there are quite a few perks to being a softwa...Read more

Being a programmer can a fun and rewarding career. Particularly in the later stages when your experience has grown and you have more freed...Read more

As a .NET developer for the past decade it is a bit odd that I would go out of my way to talk up PHP and to try to create a case for using ...Read more

This question will have a completely different answer depending on who you ask. If you ask a front-end developer, then programming will rel...Read more

Coding bootcamps are quickly growing in popularity among younger people not interested in the 4-5 year college route and in older people wh...Read more

The early stages of learning anything are one of two things. They are either exciting, as you are constantly learning new things and being b...Read more

I've read one or two programming books in my day. Around 20 I would estimate, both in college and after. And I can't remember what's in mos...Read more

Code dependency is a topic that rarely gets talked about in programming circles. Mainly because it's something that everyone does and doesn...Read more

We have more resources today in terms of documentation, guides, video tutorials, and how to's than at any other time in human history. We ar...Read more

In 2008, when I first began my professional programming career, I was tasked with working on a relatively high traffic website performing v...Read more

I started programming in High School after I received my first computer. And today my watch has more RAM than that machine. But it was a fu...Read more

We always hear about this "doomsday" scenario in the near future. Where programs will learn to write other programs. Where for loops will e...Read more

If you're a programmer, then at some point you've had to design and style something on a website. And truth be told, you probably thought t...Read more

The technical definition of code obfuscation is to transform a working piece of code into a difficult to read and decipher logical equivalen...Read more

Online coding classes are all the rage this year. In lieu of attending a university for 4 years to earn a degree in order to become a softw...Read more

Many people are getting into programming nowadays, for various reasons. Some fear that the machines will one day gain control and so they a...Read more

And not in a creepy mind control way. At least I hope not. But in a world changing everyone is in on it way. So if that sounds like a world...Read more

One of the most beneficial (as in to humanity I guess) aspects about becoming a programmer is learning to control data, no matter what that...Read more

To many programmers, their code is like their legacy on this earth. Or like their children. You pick the metaphor. Their legacy/child that ...Read more

The programming world is relatively split on whether more focus should be placed on code readability versus code complexity. As someone who...Read more

Whether you just finished college finally after 4 years of hard work, or maybe you just completed a 6 month coding bootcamp, or even ma...Read more

Every year i tell myself the same thing. I'm going to make a game and it's going to be amazing. It's going to take you, the player, to anot...Read more

If there is one thing that programmer's love to do, it's to code new and exciting things. They love designing them, implementing them, test...Read more

Your eyes are typically under constant barrage and stress on a day to day basis. Everything from direct sunlight to poor lighting conditions...Read more

The new year is here once again, which means you will begin to do things that you didn't feel like doing last year. But at least you will a...Read more

Learning anything in life is challenging. Whether it's skateboarding, writing, painting or coding. You don't know what you don't know and be...Read more

Another decade in the books and as we close out the year, we are all hopefully looking for ways to improve our skills in the year to come.If...Read more

No language is better than any other. Those are strange thoughts that certain people with affinities for their own programming languages t...Read more

Coding for the most part is a one person job. Many lines of code, many modules, but you can only work on one module at at time by yourself. ...Read more

And not in a midlife crisis kind of way, in which you leave your family to take on Silicon Valley. That's for another post. But in a "what ...Read more

If you're a programmer, then you have a very unique work ability that many people do not possess. But many times this goes unnoticed in our...Read more

One of the things that many college professors will preach and that many programmers will ignore, at least in my case, is that you should m...Read more

One of the main reasons that I'm a huge fan of JavaScript is because of it's ease of use. You open up notepad, you type, you save and you'...Read more

One of the most important things that your company can do early on in its timeline, is to create standards and workflows. Workflows can com...Read more

Every single programmer that I know has this issue. It's both a curse and a blessing, like most things in life usually. And that is having ...Read more

Whether you're a computer science student, an aspiring self-taught developer, or a coding boot camp student, mastering the craft of programm...Read more

In my early programming years, I had this strange pull towards every new programming language that was hitting the scene. I would begin to ...Read more

PHP is used virtually everywhere online. In fact, 77.5% of all websites in the world are built using PHP. It’s probably the most popular pro...Read more

A while ago, (a long while ago) I myself was a junior software engineer looking to climb the ladder as quickly as I could. After many interv...Read more

Performance and optimization are important for generating a good user experience on any website. Aside from ensuring that you have properly ...Read more

Personal finance apps, which can also be referred to as money management or budgeting apps, are: Primarily mobile apps that connect ...Read more

Learning to code professionally is in general not the easiest task that you can take on. In the past it might have been a simpler time. You ...Read more

The answer to this is always an unpopular one, both because it's the obvious answer and because it's difficult to follow through on. But sim...Read more