Software Development News and Articles

How To Become A Full Stack Developer
Published on: 9/21/2016 - 5 min read
How To Become A Full Stack Developer
Full stack developers are hard to come by nowadays, just ask any hiring manager at most companies. Even myself, working for a startup, I pe...
Should You Share Your Genius Ideas
Published on: 9/15/2016 - 5 min read
Should You Share Your Genius Ideas
This is a question that has run through the minds of many many programmers in their coding career at some point or another, including mysel...
Is Innovation On The Web Slowing Down
Published on: 9/13/2016 - 6 min read
Is Innovation On The Web Slowing Down
Just recently I wrote about the web turning 25, and about how that was a big milestone in the tech world. And for sure, it is. In that time...
How To Fix AutoCorrect
Published on: 8/30/2016 - 4 min read
How To Fix AutoCorrect
I have auto-correct turned on all the time on my phone, but I hate it. Can't stand it. And for the life of me, I can't understand why I......
Never Be The Smartest Guy In The Room
Published on: 8/25/2016 - 5 min read
Never Be The Smartest Guy In The Room
Have you ever been around a group of friends and that existential dread, that looms over everyone, hits and you start to think about life c...
The benefits of coding in Vanilla JavaScript
Anyone that knows me knows that I'm a huge fan of coding everything by hand. Using plugins or 3rd party libraries is always last on my list...
I Don't Know How To Make A Video Game
Published on: 8/15/2016 - 6 min read
I Don't Know How To Make A Video Game
When I first chose to make programming my career choice in life it was mainly because I spent the first half of my life playing video games...
Getting Started With Xamarin And Visual Studio 2015 Part 1
Write once, run everywhere is the ultimate goal when writing software. As well it should be. The more code you have to maintain, the more e...
Taking A Look At 25 Years Of The Web
Published on: 8/10/2016 - 4 min read
Taking A Look At 25 Years Of The Web
A few days ago, the 25th anniversary of the first ever webpage going live occurred and it got me thinking, in a non-existential way. While ...
Taking A Look At the Battery API In JavaScript
Does your browser know your battery status? You bet it does. Let's talk about that. HTML5 keeps adding more and more features to its lin...
Choosing The Right Web Server
Published on: 8/1/2016 - 4 min read
Choosing The Right Web Server
With so many different hosting options today, it can be confusing and time-consuming finding the right one. Mainly because it's going to co...
Remembering Programming 10 Years Ago
Published on: 7/19/2016 - 4 min read
Remembering Programming 10 Years Ago
I started programming in High School after I received my first computer. And today my watch has more RAM than that machine. But it was a fu...
Increase Security With Two Factor Authentication And U2F
Security is getting more difficult to attain nowadays on the old interwebs, and for good reason. It's not about hackers getting more clever...
Taking A Look At ASP.NET Core
Published on: 7/11/2016 - 4 min read
Taking A Look At ASP.NET Core
One of the biggest things to come from Microsoft recently, for developers, is .NET core, which is a lightweight, multi-platform framework f...
Why We Should All Be Failing More
Published on: 7/6/2016 - 4 min read
Why We Should All Be Failing More
Remember that time you took a super hard exam in elementary school, and you skipped question #1 because you were going to circle back to it...
Starting The Freelance Journey
Published on: 7/5/2016 - 6 min read
Starting The Freelance Journey
Just recently I left my, what I assume to be, last desk job ever. After 10 long years and 30lbs of weight fluctuation between jobs, I've de...
4 Web Technologies To Learn This Year
Published on: 7/2/2016 - 4 min read
4 Web Technologies To Learn This Year
Because one is never truly done learning. Here is a list of some important technologies that web developers should pick up this year. Some ...
Taking A Look At JavaScript's WebGL
Published on: 6/30/2016 - 4 min read
Taking A Look At JavaScript's WebGL
Just recently a friend of mine showed me a game running on a web browser and it was an amazing experience. The game wasn't particularly ama...
Creating Credit Card Charges With Stripe And .NET
In this post I'll be going over the Stripe API and more specifically, using it in a .NET environment. I'll say right now that Stripe and th...
What Do You Do, And How Do You Do It
Published on: 6/22/2016 - 5 min read
What Do You Do, And How Do You Do It
Anyone that saw the film The Pursuit of Happiness with Will Smith will remember that iconic scene, where Chris Gardner is walking down the ...