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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...
A 5 Minute Guide To CSS Animations
Published on: 11/14/2016 - 6 min read
A 5 Minute Guide To CSS Animations
If you are looking to add a splash of design to your existing websites, then CSS animations are a simple and quick way to do so, and they h...
A 5 Minute Guide To CSS Transitions
Published on: 11/9/2016 - 6 min read
A 5 Minute Guide To CSS Transitions
CSS transitions have been out for a bit now, but many websites still don't make full use of them, unfortunately. And they should, as they p...
The Programming Zone
Published on: 11/8/2016 - 4 min read
The Programming Zone
There's this place that a programmer goes to at times. Sometimes for a few hours and sometimes for a few days. It's a good place. A place o...
Stop Asking People What They Think
Published on: 11/4/2016 - 4 min read
Stop Asking People What They Think
What do you think of this? You do it, I do it, alot and lately I started to wonder why I bother. You know the moment. You just designed a w...
How To Make Responsive HTML Tables
Published on: 11/3/2016 - 4 min read
How To Make Responsive HTML Tables
The beloved HTML table is one of the oldest elements on the web and one of the most used elements. It's incredibly important, for a number ...
Working with the loading icon
Published on: 11/2/2016 - 4 min read
Working with the loading icon
The little guy that helps us decide whether we should click again, or wait it out for another 2 minutes. It's a love hate relationship with...
Can Your Learn To Program From A Book
Published on: 11/1/2016 - 5 min read
Can Your Learn To Program From A Book
I've read one or two programming books in my day. Around 20 I would estimate, both in college and after. And I can't remember what's in mos...
Battle of the Bots
Published on: 10/30/2016 - 5 min read
Battle of the Bots
And not at all in a cool way unfortunately. But in a more "that's kind of annoying..." way. For the most part, bots roam the interwebs hour...
The Good And The Bad At Windows Live Event This Year
Microsoft's Windows Live Event went down today, and it was a fun time. 3D took the major focus, and we got some new hardware debuted. First...
Soundtrack To Your Code
Published on: 10/25/2016 - 5 min read
Soundtrack To Your Code
If there's one benefit to working for any tech company, it is that most allow you (the programmers) the freedom to drown out your entire su...