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

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...

Computer Science

Published on: 12/16/2019 - 7 min read

How I got started with Computer Science

As corny as it sounds, it all began when I was 5 years old. I'd like to think that this is true for everyone. And that thos...

Javascript

Published on: 12/5/2019 - 5 min read

What exactly is the JAM Stack?

If you are fan of JavaScript then you no doubt have encountered the term JAMStack at some point in your career. In this post I'm going to br...

Published on: 12/2/2019 - 5 min read

I built a website in exchange for cookies

Anybody that really knows me, knows that I have a taste for baked goods. These days as I age (age well), they tend to be of the glute...

Published on: 11/18/2019 - 4 min read

How to create your own code framework

Code re-usability was something that was highly emphasized upon in college. In fact, if there's one thing I remember (and only one thing) it...

Published on: 11/12/2019 - 7 min read

A quick look at my day to day freelance life

It's kind of like Han Solo's mercenary life, but with more sitting and typing. You take on jobs, meet interesting characters, not get paid (...

Javascript

Published on: 11/8/2019 - 3 min read

Checking if users are offline with navigator.onLine

"Must be online to continue". "You have been disconnected". "Error: Status code: YSLFJLFJSKDFJS"We have all seen that message appear at some...

Published on: 11/6/2019 - 5 min read

The confusing search to find out who makes web standards - part 1

Just before beginning to write this post, I had an entirely different post in mind. I was going to write about the W3C (The World Wide Web C...

Javascript

Published on: 11/4/2019 - 5 min read

The simplest way to create dynamic modal pop-ups in JavaScript

Modal windows are an important UI/UX tool when it comes to pretty much any type of application, whether web, mobile or even your local ATM m...

Published on: 11/1/2019 - 5 min read

Programming the perfect dashboard

I've coded things of all shapes in sizes throughout my years. Everything from small landing pages to email templates to fully custom pa...

Published on: 10/30/2019 - 5 min read

Why "mobile-first" might not make sense in the long run

There are probably more smartphones in existence today than there are people, if you were to add up the ones that are so last year and ended...

Published on: 10/28/2019 - 5 min read

Why programmers struggle to make good startup founders

Find a programmer with a few years of experience under their belt and you'll find a million and one ideas ready to take over the world and b...

Javascript

Published on: 10/27/2019 - 4 min read

JavaScript Bubble Sort Algorithm Explained: A Beginner’s Guide

Sorting is a common task that is required of programmers many a time. You need to sort things such as search result sets to standard lists o...

Published on: 10/25/2019 - 4 min read

How I really got good at writing code

After much reflection on this question, I was finally able to trace back through my history and find a more concrete answer than my usual "Y...

Programming

Published on: 10/24/2019 - 4 min read

Why pair programming works

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. ...

Javascript

Published on: 10/23/2019 - 6 min read

How to create a calculator in JavaScript

You may think you know what a calculator is. But it's not until you begin to code something that you get to see just how complex it can be. ...

Published on: 10/21/2019 - 4 min read

Should you stop adding the 'type' attribute in your script tags?

The year is almost 2020 as of this writing, and the HTML5 specification officially became a stable W3C Recommendation in 2014. Is it now tim...

Javascript

Published on: 10/17/2019 - 3 min read

How JavaScript optimizes tail calls

A commonly seen useful shorthand when writing code is the ability to call a function as a return statement....

Javascript

Published on: 10/16/2019 - 4 min read

Custom JavaScript pagination of objects

This is a follow up to my post How To Paginate Through A Collection In Javascript article. In this updated version I wi...

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