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How To Post A Tweet Using C# For Single User
Published on: 2/22/2016 - 13 min read
How To Post A Tweet Using C# For Single User
In this post I'll be showing how to post a Tweet to Twitter using C# and no 3rd party libraries. This is a pure .NET approach, and it's mor...
Fireside Chat With Joel Spolsky
Published on: 2/8/2016 - 5 min read
Fireside Chat With Joel Spolsky
Just recently I had the privilege to attend a talk by Joel Spolsky, co-creator of Stack Overflow and creator of Fog Creek Software, and it ...
Computer Science For All May Not Be The Right Answer
Recently the President proposed a 4 billion dollar plan that would enable public schools to teach computer science courses to everyone from...
Taking The Gear VR For A Test Drive
Published on: 1/28/2016 - 5 min read
Taking The Gear VR For A Test Drive
For the past year, everyone online has been fascinated by VR. Virtual Reality, like the kind that we see in Anime and movies. Nobody I know...
My Experience With Pair Programming
Published on: 1/24/2016 - 5 min read
My Experience With Pair Programming
For the most part, programming is usually a one man/woman job. You get your task, and you fire up your IDE and you get to work. You miss a ...
Why Windows 7 Is Still So Popular
Published on: 1/16/2016 - 4 min read
Why Windows 7 Is Still So Popular
It's been some years since Windows 7 came out, and apparently, I never got over it, as I sit here today on my Windows 7 laptop with about 8...
Getting Started With JavaScript's WebRTC
Published on: 1/7/2016 - 4 min read
Getting Started With JavaScript's WebRTC
WebRTC is a free open sourced technology that allows your everyday browsers to perform Real Time Communication through a set of simple API'...
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...