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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 ...
Starting Out With ASP.NET MVC Part 3
Published on: 6/20/2016 - 5 min read
Starting Out With ASP.NET MVC Part 3
Welcome to part 3 of my starting off with MVC tutorial. In this post I will be mainly going over Data Annotations. You can check out part 1...
Taking The
Studying Computer Science in college is unusually difficult. I say unusual, because 80% of all that science concepts taught will probably o...
Simulations Are A Powerful Thing
Published on: 6/9/2016 - 4 min read
Simulations Are A Powerful Thing
One of the most beneficial (as in to humanity I guess) aspects about becoming a programmer is learning to control data, no matter what that...
Taking A Look At Security In Shared Hosting
Published on: 6/3/2016 - 4 min read
Taking A Look At Security In Shared Hosting
I've always been a proponent of having just the most secure site that you can possibly make. And as such, I always take precautions to make...
The Web Isn't Valid Anymore, And That's Not Ok
The language of the internet is and always will be HTML. And this HTML is standardized by the W3C, or the World Wide Web Consortium. The W3...
The Grim Yet Important Role Of Postmortems
Published on: 5/17/2016 - 4 min read
The Grim Yet Important Role Of Postmortems
So you finished that big project for a client and now you and your team are reveling in that feeling of completion. There were ups and down...
Setting Up Git Remotely on BitBucket and Visual Studio
When working with a team on a programming task, source control becomes a necessity and Git is the dominating force in this area. So today I...
Becoming Too Dependent On Code
Published on: 4/28/2016 - 4 min read
Becoming Too Dependent On Code
Code dependency is a topic that rarely gets talked about in programming circles. Mainly because it's something that everyone does and doesn...
Designing Web Pages With The Google Web Designer
It's fair to say that Google is pretty good at this whole website thing. Which is why I was surprised at their latest non-web application, ...
The Arduous Journey To A Faster Website
Published on: 4/9/2016 - 4 min read
The Arduous Journey To A Faster Website
Every now and then I'll run a page audit on one of my websites and then immediately become depressed when I see the results. It's hard to k...
The Pros And Cons Of Working Remotely
Published on: 3/22/2016 - 6 min read
The Pros And Cons Of Working Remotely
Most jobs nowadays, still require you to get up early and get ready and to then spend a percentage of your life sitting inside of a vehicle...
Are We Due For The 6 Hour Work Day
Published on: 3/9/2016 - 7 min read
Are We Due For The 6 Hour Work Day
If you know me, you know that I'm not a fan of the standard 8 hour workday. And alot of that has to do with my outside of work activities, ...
A Beginners Guide To JavaScript
Published on: 3/6/2016 - 7 min read
A Beginners Guide To JavaScript
JavaScript is a great language for anyone just starting to code for a variety of reasons. It's lightweight, runs fast and most importantly ...
I For One, Welcome Our Robot Overlords
Published on: 2/29/2016 - 7 min read
I For One, Welcome Our Robot Overlords
Kind of... Lately, there's been alot of talk on the internet about robots and "AI" taking away 200% of the jobs in the country in the ne...