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Personal Blog

Personal thoughts and takes on programming in general.
54 Articles
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How I Landed My First Programming Job
One of the hardest things that I've had to do in life was to convince a company, a money making institution, that they needed my awesome sk...
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The Pros And Cons Of Working With Recruiters
Recruiters have a tight hold on tech jobs these days, for a few reasons. But mainly that tech jobs are hard to fill and they pay substant...
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Is The Future Written In Code?
This week was a historic week for computer programming, as our President became the first in history to "write" a computer program. He sat ...
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How Much Do I Make As A Web Developer?
A while back the twitter hashtag #talkpay went for a viral spin and people were encouraged to post their job titles and salary in an atte...
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Is The Surface 3 A Good Developer Laptop?
When I originally picked up the Surface 3, it was mainly because of it's lower price point and smaller size. It's not targeted towards deve...
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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...
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Trying Out: Google's Material Design Lite
Google just unveiled Material Design Lite out into the wild for all to use, and so I'm going to be trying it out on a few of my websites th...
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Checking Out The Microsoft Edge Developer Tools
I just download my fresh copy of Windows 10, which if you haven't you can either wait for it to install automatically if you qualify for th...
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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...
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The Pros And Cons Of Working Remotely
Most jobs nowadays, still require you to get up early and get ready and to then spend a percentage of your life sitting inside of a vehicle...
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Why Programming Can Take A Toll On Your Health
If you look at the top 10 healthiest jobs in the world, being a software developer won't be in the top 100. For obvious reasons. Mainly, th...
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Battle of the Bots
And not at all in a cool way unfortunately. But in a more "that's kind of annoying..." way. For the most part, bots roam the interwebs hour...
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Can Your Learn To Program From A Book
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...
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Stop Asking People What They Think
What do you think of this? You do it, I do it, alot and lately I started to wonder why I bother. You know the moment. You just designed a w...
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The Loading Icon
The little guy that helps us decide whether we should click again, or wait it out for another 2 minutes. It's a love hate relationship with...
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The Programming Zone
There's this place that a programmer goes to at times. Sometimes for a few hours and sometimes for a few days. It's a good place. A place o...
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Can Programs Write Other Programs
We always hear about this "doomsday" scenario in the near future. Where programs will learn to write other programs. Where for loops will e...
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Building Your Programming Portfolio in 5 Steps
The year is off to a fresh start, and as such, it is time for many people to make those new year's resolutions and to maybe get a new job. ...
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Notepad Is The Most Useful Programmer's Tool
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...
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Happi Pi Day
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...
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Picking Your First Programming Language
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...
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How To Not Burnout As A Programmer
Programmer burnout is a common occurrence in this day and age. And probably back in the day too. It's hard to imagine that people like Alan...
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The 5 Minute Rule To Get Things Done
Every individual has their own method for getting things done in their life. Whether it's through some online to do list application or thr...
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How To Be A Better Programmer
Being a programmer can a fun and rewarding career. Particularly in the later stages when your experience has grown and you have more freed...
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The most difficult part about programming
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...
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Landing your first programming job
Regardless of the field that you find yourself in, landing your first job is one of the most difficult challenges that you will face in you...
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What does a programmer do exactly?
This question will have a completely different answer depending on who you ask. If you ask a front-end developer, then programming will rel...
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This is why you need side-projects
In 2008, when I first began my professional programming career, I was tasked with working on a relatively high traffic website performing v...
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The challenge of learning something on the web
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...
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Advice for younger programmers looking for work
I get asked very frequently about the best route to take when looking to land that next big programming job, particularly when starting...
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The challenges of working remotely
So you want to sit on the beach with your laptop answering emails, dishing out for loops and making out like a thief while doing it?The funn...
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Learning to code is going to get harder
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...
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This is why programmers are so important
To those new individuals entering the programming job world currently, thoughts and ideas of high paying salaries, high tech sounding titles...
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The best way to prepare for a programming interview
You received that email, welcoming you through the doors of a prestigious (or not so prestigious) software company in order for you too show...
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The truth about teaching yourself to code?
I see this question come up frequently enough with my students, so I decided to give my 2 cents on it. And let me start off by saying that t...
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Should you work at a startup?
I get this question frequently from many people, mainly those just starting out on their programming careers, and having both been a job-see...
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3 mistakes programmers make when learning to code
Learning to code can be a difficult and time-consuming endeavour for many. And while there are plenty of online resources out there today,&n...
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How to quit your job and feel good about it
If you're 23+ years old, odds are that you either currently don't like your job very much, or that you just left a job that you didn't like ...
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This is why you should spend a few years in corporate America
Whenever you hear about programmers and coding, you eventually end up hearing about working remotely from your bed in your pajamas while a f...
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What is "black-box code" and why it's important
The concept of black-box modeling isn't anything new in the software developer world. It essentially comes down to hiding the comp...
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This is why we can't have "clean code"
The idea of clean code has been circulating around the internet for a while now, and as most things in life, the longer they persist and tra...
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How has programming changed during the past 15 years?
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...
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Do you think like a programmer?
A popular thought experiment that I often give my students who are early in their programming careers is the following: There is a basket i...
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4 potential routes to becoming a web developer
This is a popular question that I often get asked from people who are familiar with coding, but not quite skilled enough or confident enough...
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Should you learn to code in 2019?
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Why you don't need more than one programming language
More is usually better, right? More cookies, is noticeably better than less cookies. Unless those cookies are bad. In which case, nobody wan...
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Our code is getting old and outdated and we need to fix it soon
Hear me out. I love StackOverflow and Google. Alot. It has made my job overall much less frustrating and has made for some short work days. ...
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A robot called me last night, and I'm sort of okay with it
Google impressed everyone with it's project Duplex a few months back. We were glued to our screens as we saw a wonderful human-like conver...
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I tried the Pomodoro Technique for a week...and it's pretty effective
For the past week, I've gone ahead and actively and almost religiously lived through the Pomodoro time-management Technique. And this m...
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Do you need to be good at math to be a programmer?
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 ...
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How to not over engineer your code
I do it all the time. And it is hard not to sometimes when you get into the flow and you keep thinking of cool new feature after cool new fe...
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Mistakes I made at my first programming job
Just like in the Matrix, everybody falls their first time. You don't know what you don't know and what you don't know can sometimes cause th...
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What's the difference between a text editor and an IDE?
A common question that I often is why do I use Visual Studio 2019 instead of VS Code? Good question. Complex answer. Let's get into it.The t...
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New design for 2021
Taking everything that I've learned from 2020 about what works and what doesn't work on the blog, I have made adjustments and upgrades to th...
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