Personal Blog

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...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

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...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

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

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

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

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

I get asked very frequently about the best route to take when looking to land that next big programming job, particularly when starting...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

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

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

You received that email, welcoming you through the doors of a prestigious (or not so prestigious) software company in order for you too show...Read more

I get this question frequently from many people, mainly those just starting out on their programming careers, and having both been a job-see...Read more

Whenever you hear about programmers and coding, you eventually end up hearing about working remotely from your bed in your pajamas while a f...Read more

If you have been curious about coding/programming/web developing but haven't found the fortitude to begin the journey, or to take a free onl...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

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

For the past week, I've gone ahead and actively and almost religiously lived through the Pomodoro time-management Technique. And this m...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...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

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. ...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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...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

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...Read more

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 ...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

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. ...Read more

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...Read more

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...Read more

More is usually better, right? More cookies, is noticeably better than less cookies. Unless those cookies are bad. In which case, nobody wan...Read more

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...Read more

This week was a historic week for computer programming, as our President became the first in history to "write" a computer program. He sat ...Read more

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...Read more

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...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

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...Read more

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