Software Development News and Articles

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 ...
Click to enlarge is a common feature on many sites nowadays. And while it may seem like a trivial feature to add to your website, just try ...
Add Pagination To Any Table In JavaScript
Published on: 12/9/2016 - 4 min read
Add Pagination To Any Table In JavaScript
Pagination is one of those things that everyone hates implementing on their websites, and that we avoid doing until the data size calls for it....
Why You Should Be Deleting Your Code
Published on: 12/2/2016 - 4 min read
Why You Should Be Deleting Your Code
Programming is a very dynamic field for the most part. Hundreds of languages, hundreds of frameworks, millions of people. But essentially, ...
Looking Beyond Computers In Computer Science
Published on: 11/23/2016 - 5 min read
Looking Beyond Computers In Computer Science
The definition of Computer Scientist has changed many times during the past century. Even more so now with the popularization and novelty o...
Can Programs Write Other Programs
Published on: 11/17/2016 - 6 min read
Can Programs Write Other Programs
We always hear about this "doomsday" scenario in the near future. Where programs will learn to write other programs. Where for loops will e...