Software Development News and Articles

Published on: 5/25/2020 - 6 min read

College degree vs coding bootcamp and which is right for you?

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...

Web Development

Published on: 5/21/2020 - 5 min read

How to avoid enormous network payloads

Performance on the web is important in order to provide a fast and smooth overall web surfing experience to your site visitors....

Published on: 5/19/2020 - 5 min read

My web design process

Web design is one of those things that is both personal but yet also needs to be very functional. At least, it should be aiming to be those ...

Published on: 5/19/2020 - 5 min read

How to use the developer console like a pro

The console window in a browsers developer tools is more than just a long list of red strings letting you know that something has gone wrong...

HTML

Published on: 5/9/2020 - 2 min read

Working with the 'template' tag in HTML5

Templates are reusable chunks of HTML that are ignored by the HTML rendering engine in the browser, so they will not appear in your web page...

Published on: 5/4/2020 - 4 min read

What freelancing in 2020 might look like

Tens of thousands of businesses around the world have been forced to shut their doors due to recent events. Many of those will not be able t...

Published on: 5/2/2020 - 6 min read

Why is everyone suddenly talking about COBOL

If you have been following the news lately then you might have heard that the current strain on our government websites has caused a massive...

Published on: 4/30/2020 - 6 min read

A look at VPN's and why you probably need one

VPN's or Virtual Private Networks are not new by any means, but they are gaining more attention from the general public, particularly with t...

Javascript

Published on: 4/30/2020 - 2 min read

Working with default function parameters in JavaScript

Default function parameters are a great addition to the JavaScript specification as of ES2015 that allows us to give a default starting value to named parameters in a function....

Published on: 3/17/2020 - 5 min read

How to go about starting your freelancing career

Maybe you've considered the possibility of branching out on your own and starting your own business to break free from the office grind. But...

Published on: 3/10/2020 - 7 min read

Are we wasting too much CSS?

Most of my coding life is spent in the web development world, and as such, I get to generate a substantial amount of CSS on a daily basis. T...

Published on: 3/6/2020 - 5 min read

3 quick hacks for better coding comments

I have read many comments in my days. Some were very much helpful and made my workday a breeze. While others were cryptic messages from the ...

Published on: 3/2/2020 - 3 min read

What is my current tech stack?

Your tech stack is your primary toolkit when it comes to writing code and creating software. It is typically the very first one that you sta...

Javascript

Published on: 2/25/2020 - 3 min read

Working with Maps in ECMAScript 6

In my last post I went over the Set() data structure that was introduced with ECMAScript 6. Today I will be going over t...

Javascript

Published on: 2/18/2020 - 3 min read

Working with Sets in JavaScript

ECMAScript 6 introduced the new Set type into its toolset. What are Set's? Essentially they are an ordered list of values that hav...

Career

Published on: 1/25/2020 - 5 min read

3 things to avoid at your next coding interview

I have interviewed a fair number of potential programmers during my years and have turned many of them down for various reasons. There are q...

Programming

Published on: 1/21/2020 - 4 min read

Are programmer's becoming obsolete?

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...

Published on: 1/13/2020 - 4 min read

HTTP cookies are getting a bad rep

The internet for the most part is a stateless system of information getting transferred through a medium to countless nodes. Once you leave ...

Programming

Published on: 1/1/2020 - 4 min read

3 things to do to get better at coding

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...

Published on: 12/24/2019 - 4 min read

Regretting my Computer Science degree?

These days you hear every tech startup founder and billion dollar company CEO state that college degrees are so last decade and tech skills...

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