Software Development News and Articles

How To Properly Use Code Reviews
Published on: 12/4/2017 - 4 min read
How To Properly Use Code Reviews
Code reviews can be either a fantastic tool to maintain a stronger codebase that is freer of bugs and issues, or it can be a stressful and ...
First Impressions of Microsoft SQL Operations Studio
Microsoft recently unveiled their new Microsoft SQL Operations Studio (in preview) application for Windows, Linux, and Mac. SQL Operations...
A Quick Guide To JavaScript Touch Events
Published on: 11/28/2017 - 4 min read
A Quick Guide To JavaScript Touch Events
The JavaScript specification now supports touch event handling for interactions with mobile devices and tablets....
6 Startup Mistakes To Watch Out For
Published on: 11/28/2017 - 6 min read
6 Startup Mistakes To Watch Out For
If you're looking to start, or are currently in, a startup, then mistakes are part of the game. In fact, they're the biggest part of the ga...
Why I Quit My Job For A Startup
Published on: 11/21/2017 - 6 min read
Why I Quit My Job For A Startup
I get asked this question a lot, as I left my job 2 years ago to work full-time on our startup Renly.co. And it's a tough question to answe...
How To Build Disruptive Technology
Published on: 11/18/2017 - 6 min read
How To Build Disruptive Technology
What is disruptive technology? Disruptive technology is any new technology that essentially changes the way that the current societal model...
When Is The Right Time To Start Your Business
Published on: 11/17/2017 - 5 min read
When Is The Right Time To Start Your Business
Sometimes it's difficult to notice because of our usual day to day rush, but somebody owns every single business establishment that you wal...
How We Can Code A Better Sociey
Published on: 11/14/2017 - 7 min read
How We Can Code A Better Sociey
It's hard to see it, but our society is quickly becoming what authors decades ago wrote about when they pictured the future. A future where...
My Most Difficult Programming Task To Date
Published on: 11/11/2017 - 7 min read
My Most Difficult Programming Task To Date
YouTube ads and Instagram posts make coding seem like a fun sticker filled evening with excellent cups of coffee and gorgeous scenery's of ...
Interviewing a senior software engineer
Published on: 11/9/2017 - 3 min read
Interviewing a senior software engineer
Ibrahim D. Inglewood, CA www.idiallo.com A 300 word blurb about yourself My name is Ibrahim Diallo, I am software ...
Programmer Spotlight 01: ThatSoftwareDude
Published on: 11/2/2017 - 4 min read
Programmer Spotlight 01: ThatSoftwareDude
This will be the first in the hopefully long series of Developer Interviews that we conduct for the blog. The idea is to get a few passiona...
How I Run A Whole Company On The Surface 3
Published on: 11/1/2017 - 5 min read
How I Run A Whole Company On The Surface 3
Some years ago I purchased Microsoft's Surface 3 laptop as a convenient on the go amendment to my full sized laptop at home. Obviously some...
How To Be A Better Programmer
Published on: 10/30/2017 - 5 min read
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...
This Is Why You Should Be Learning PHP
Published on: 10/24/2017 - 4 min read
This Is Why You Should Be Learning PHP
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 ...
Implementing Google's Invisible ReCaptcha In .NET
If keeping bots away is your thing, then using Google's reCAPTCHA is a must. And while it can be tedious to click on 20 images of cars in...
A Quick Roadmap To Learning To Program
Published on: 10/4/2017 - 5 min read
A Quick Roadmap To Learning To Program
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...
Building Tetris In JavaScript Part 2
Published on: 9/27/2017 - 11 min read
Building Tetris In JavaScript Part 2
Welcome to part 2 in this building Tetris tutorial. If you missed part 1, feel free to check it out here. In this second part, we'll be fin...
How to Code a Tetris clone In JavaScript
Published on: 9/19/2017 - 9 min read
How to Code a Tetris clone In JavaScript
Tetris is one of the first games that many of us played growing up. It's fun and challenging and playing a single level can take you from a...
The Next Generation Of Programmers
Published on: 9/12/2017 - 4 min read
The Next Generation Of Programmers
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...
Learning Every Programming Language
Published on: 9/10/2017 - 4 min read
Learning Every Programming Language
In my early programming years, I had this strange pull towards every new programming language that was hitting the scene. I would begin to ...