Software Development News and Articles

5 Simple Ways To Monetize Your Blog
Published on: 2/7/2017 - 4 min read
5 Simple Ways To Monetize Your Blog
If you're a blogger, then most likely you began writing because you enjoyed it, and not because you'll be making 6 figures while sipping te...
How To Code Blackjack Using JavaScript
Published on: 2/2/2017 - 10 min read
How To Code Blackjack Using JavaScript
Today I will be building a small BlackJack game in pure JavaScript in the hopes that you out there reading this can use it as a frame to ...
Thank You StackOverflow
Published on: 2/1/2017 - 4 min read
Thank You StackOverflow
For a while I believed that just maybe StackOverflow was a crutch for many programmers. That maybe it was causing us to forgot how to code ...
How To Create A Rain Effect Using Crafty.js
Published on: 1/24/2017 - 6 min read
How To Create A Rain Effect Using Crafty.js
In this post I will cover how to create a rain effect using the JavaScript game engine, Crafty.js, for a 2D side-scroller type of game. If ...
Play My Classic Snake Game
Published on: 1/20/2017 - 1 min read
Play My Classic Snake Game
On this rainy day in Los Angeles, stay home, drink too much coffee and enjoy a classic game from our teen years (maybe). I coded this sna...
Spending The Day With Opera Neon
Published on: 1/19/2017 - 3 min read
Spending The Day With Opera Neon
While not dominant in the world of web browsing, Opera hasn't given up hope just yet. It is still around and it looks like they are trying ...
Learning To Fail Gracefully
Published on: 1/16/2017 - 4 min read
Learning To Fail Gracefully
A while back I wrote about the beauty in failing. It's almost like an art really. And it's unavoidable. Things will fail regardless of how ...
Treat Your Code Like Tetris
Published on: 1/14/2017 - 4 min read
Treat Your Code Like Tetris
One of the things that many college professors will preach and that many programmers will ignore, at least in my case, is that you should m...
Societal Programming
Published on: 1/12/2017 - 3 min read
Societal Programming
And not in a creepy mind control way. At least I hope not. But in a world changing everyone is in on it way. So if that sounds like a world...
Stepping Out of the Office
Published on: 1/11/2017 - 5 min read
Stepping Out of the Office
If you're a programmer, then you have a very unique work ability that many people do not possess. But many times this goes unnoticed in our...
I Used A Standing Desk For 6 Months
Published on: 1/10/2017 - 5 min read
I Used A Standing Desk For 6 Months
Like many office workers, I had a long history of being a paper weight for office chairs. And I've tried all the chairs in life, believe me...
Drag And Drop Image Upload In JavaScript
Published on: 1/9/2017 - 12 min read
Drag And Drop Image Upload In JavaScript
File Uploads have yet to really catch up with the times and with technology. Many reasons for this. Security being a major one. It's an ope...
How To Be A Healthy Programmer In 2017
Published on: 1/8/2017 - 5 min read
How To Be A Healthy Programmer In 2017
This is the year that you shed a few pounds, quit that stressful job or take that long awaited vacation in some remote island where your bo...
2 Years With The Microsoft Surface 3
Published on: 1/7/2017 - 4 min read
2 Years With The Microsoft Surface 3
When I first purchased the Microsoft Surface 3, it was in May of 2015. It was a birthday present for myself, as I like to create reasons fo...
Why I struggle to be a game developer
Published on: 1/6/2017 - 4 min read
Why I struggle to be a game developer
Every year i tell myself the same thing. I'm going to make a game and it's going to be amazing. It's going to take you, the player, to anot...
Coding A Calendar In JavaScript
Published on: 1/5/2017 - 8 min read
Coding A Calendar In JavaScript
In this tutorial I will cover rendering a calendar onto a webpage with a few lines of JavaScript....
Building Your Programming Portfolio in 5 Steps
Published on: 1/4/2017 - 4 min read
Building Your Programming Portfolio in 5 Steps
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. ...
Modal Windows With Pure JavaScript
Published on: 1/3/2017 - 4 min read
Modal Windows With Pure JavaScript
If you're reading this post, then you are familiar with the concept of modal windows. But just in case you aren't here's a quick recap. Mod...
Localizing This Blog In Spanish
Published on: 12/28/2016 - 4 min read
Localizing This Blog In Spanish
It recently dawned on me that I speak the Spanish language. Not in a "I got my PhD in Spanish" from some far off university way, but in a m...
Sharing Is Caring, Your Code
Published on: 12/22/2016 - 4 min read
Sharing Is Caring, Your Code
To many programmers, their code is like their legacy on this earth. Or like their children. You pick the metaphor. Their legacy/child that ...