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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 ...
The Programmer
Published on: 9/9/2017 - 4 min read
The Programmer
No language is better than any other. Those are strange thoughts that certain people with affinities for their own programming languages t...
The 5 Minute Rule To Get Things Done
Published on: 8/28/2017 - 4 min read
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...
Perks Of Being A Programmer
Published on: 8/15/2017 - 4 min read
Perks Of Being A Programmer
Aside from the ever increasing job market in the technology sector that sees no end in sight, there are quite a few perks to being a softwa...
Compilation Time Is Eating My Soul Slowly
Published on: 8/7/2017 - 4 min read
Compilation Time Is Eating My Soul Slowly
One of the main reasons that I'm a huge fan of JavaScript is because of it's ease of use. You open up notepad, you type, you save and you'...
How To Not Burnout As A Programmer
Published on: 8/1/2017 - 6 min read
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...
My Biggest Problem As A Programmer
Published on: 7/30/2017 - 3 min read
My Biggest Problem As A Programmer
Every single programmer that I know has this issue. It's both a curse and a blessing, like most things in life usually. And that is having ...
Should Coffee Shops Get Rid of WiFi
Published on: 7/24/2017 - 5 min read
Should Coffee Shops Get Rid of WiFi
It's hard to picture a coffee shop these days that doesn't offer WiFi to its customers with the purchase of a drink. It's become common pra...
Picking Your First Programming Language
Published on: 7/18/2017 - 5 min read
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...
Why Programmer's Don't Make Great Designers
If you're a programmer, then at some point you've had to design and style something on a website. And truth be told, you probably thought t...