Software Development News and Articles

Starting The Year Off Wrong
Published on: 1/4/2016 - 4 min read
Starting The Year Off Wrong
2016 has arrived, and all resolutions have already been shattered into a thousand disappointing pieces. The excuses have already arrived an...
JavaScript Doesn't Get Enough Credit
Published on: 12/10/2015 - 4 min read
JavaScript Doesn't Get Enough Credit
I've worked as a programmer for many many years and in my corporate travels I've noticed that usually there's this idea, this stigma if you...
How to Get Started With TypeScript<br>
Published on: 12/6/2015 - 6 min read
How to Get Started With TypeScript
TypeScript is a free and open source superset of JavaScript and was created and is maintained by Microsoft. It offers many OOP patterns tha...
Taking Visual Studio Code For A Spin
Published on: 11/23/2015 - 4 min read
Taking Visual Studio Code For A Spin
If there's one thing that's for certain about Microsoft, it is that their IDE's are some of the best in the industry. And for any developer...
New Online 8-bit Pixel Editor
Published on: 10/24/2015 - 3 min read
New Online 8-bit Pixel Editor
I'm a huge fan of old school video games. I grew up in the 8 bit era, spending hundreds of hours playing every Nintendo game known to man, ...
Web Hosting Provider Arvixe.com Review
Published on: 10/20/2015 - 4 min read
Web Hosting Provider Arvixe.com Review
If you are thinking of starting your own website, then the first step you should take is picking a good and reliable hosting provider. And ...
Reviewing The Lumo Lift Fitness Tracker
Published on: 10/18/2015 - 5 min read
Reviewing The Lumo Lift Fitness Tracker
Being a software developer is less strenuous than many other jobs. And if not, then you're doing it wrong. Sitting on a chair for 8-10 ho...
Reviewing The Moto 360 2nd Generation
Published on: 10/4/2015 - 5 min read
Reviewing The Moto 360 2nd Generation
Motorola's first 360 watch was one of the most talked about wearable devices when it first came out this time last year, and for good reaso...
Setting Up Your Development Environment
Published on: 9/28/2015 - 4 min read
Setting Up Your Development Environment
There is alot that goes into being a software developer nowadays. When I was in college we used a text editor and we typed some commands. B...
Setting Up Workspaces In Chrome Developer Tools
Published on: 9/23/2015 - 3 min read
Setting Up Workspaces In Chrome Developer Tools
How many times do you load up Google Dev Tools in order to make styling changes on the fly? If you're like me, then that's the first place ...
Building A Side Scroller With Crafty.JS
Published on: 9/14/2015 - 13 min read
Building A Side Scroller With Crafty.JS
It's time to take what I've learned about Crafty.js in the past couple of weeks and to put it to use and build a side scroller game. Also, ...
Software Development: Why We're Doing It Wrong
A long time ago, great men walked the Earth. Now too, just not so many. Back then these men read books from age 2 and onward and they were ...
A Closer Look At How And Why Websites Track You
It is no surprise that websites nowadays track your every move. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, etc etc. The list goes on and on and for t...
The Pitfalls Of Using A CMS
Published on: 8/30/2015 - 6 min read
The Pitfalls Of Using A CMS
If you've ever held an office them, then you've seen them. And you probably hate them. I know I do. I've used everything from Drupal to Wor...
How To: Make A Game With Crafty JS Part 3
Published on: 8/23/2015 - 10 min read
How To: Make A Game With Crafty JS Part 3
This is a follow up to my last two Crafty.js posts which you can find in part 1 and part 2 in those links, which covered the basics of gett...
How Important Is College For A Successful Career
Published on: 8/12/2015 - 5 min read
How Important Is College For A Successful Career
This is a question that I've asked myself plenty of times during the past ten years, as I'm sure many people ask themselves at some point. ...
Implementing Google's No Captcha reCaptcha In ASP.NET
Captchas and reCaptchas are great inventions. They help keep spam out and help to verify that humans are on the interwebs and not mischievo...
Starting Out With ASP.NET MVC Part 2
Published on: 8/6/2015 - 5 min read
Starting Out With ASP.NET MVC Part 2
Last time I left off with ASP.NET MVC, I covered how to create a new MVC project in Visual Studio and how to add new Controllers and Views....
Checking Out The Microsoft Edge Developer Tools
I just download my fresh copy of Windows 10, which if you haven't you can either wait for it to install automatically if you qualify for th...
Windows 10 May Be My New Favorite OS
Published on: 7/31/2015 - 4 min read
Windows 10 May Be My New Favorite OS
Windows 10 is finally here and after reading reviews on pretty much every single technology blog known to man, I was anxious to get mine. A...