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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...
Starting Out With ASP.NET MVC Part 1
Published on: 7/28/2015 - 5 min read
Starting Out With ASP.NET MVC Part 1
One of my weaknesses in programming is actively using MVC in my projects. Particularly ASP.NET MVC, since I am a .NET Developer. Most of th...
Revisiting My Bug Ridden Code And Found All This
Every couple of months I like to go back to an old project and show it some love and attention. And every few months I'm surprised at how o...
What Is A Senior Developer?
Published on: 7/21/2015 - 4 min read
What Is A Senior Developer?
After years of programming, I'm still not quite sure yet myself. Many times you'll see those keywords in job descriptions and then stop f...
Working With Generics In C#
Published on: 7/18/2015 - 5 min read
Working With Generics In C#
In this post I will talk about another nifty feature that C# has offered for a while now, Generics. You probably won't run into Generics on...
The Importance Of A Great Work Environment
Published on: 7/17/2015 - 4 min read
The Importance Of A Great Work Environment
I've worked in several different companies throughout the years, and at home for a part of that time, and I've been comfortable and I've be...
Working With Delegates In C# For Beginners
Published on: 7/16/2015 - 3 min read
Working With Delegates In C# For Beginners
I don't normally run into delegates in my day to day coding, but at some point you will run into them and you'll want to know what they are...
Trying Out: Google's Material Design Lite
Published on: 7/10/2015 - 4 min read
Trying Out: Google's Material Design Lite
Google just unveiled Material Design Lite out into the wild for all to use, and so I'm going to be trying it out on a few of my websites th...