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Is The Surface 3 A Good Developer Laptop?
Published on: 5/15/2015 - 4 min read
Is The Surface 3 A Good Developer Laptop?
When I originally picked up the Surface 3, it was mainly because of it's lower price point and smaller size. It's not targeted towards deve...
Image and Text SlideShow In JavaScript
Published on: 5/14/2015 - 4 min read
Image and Text SlideShow In JavaScript
Last time I made a quick tic tac toe clone and today, at the request of a friend, I will make an image/text slideshow widget. We see them a...
How to Code Tic Tac Toe in JavaScript
Published on: 5/13/2015 - 19 min read
How to Code Tic Tac Toe in JavaScript
In this post we will be building the ever popular Tic Tac Toe game in JavaScript. It's a relatively simple implementation and the most comp...
Life As A Code Monkey
Published on: 5/12/2015 - 6 min read
Life As A Code Monkey
Code Monkey get up, get coffee, code monkey go to job... Before I start with my story, I just want to say that software development is a...
Helpful Resources For Web Developers
Published on: 5/8/2015 - 4 min read
Helpful Resources For Web Developers
Making a website can get complex. And I mean, a full website, not a blog or a site with static content. I mean more a website with a busine...
Android Development Beginners Guide
Published on: 5/5/2015 - 2 min read
Android Development Beginners Guide
A while back I decided to make an Android app, and take the world by storm and make millions and be carried off by the townspeople. And I d...
How Fast Can You Read?
Published on: 5/3/2015 - 4 min read
How Fast Can You Read?
Greetings there. Before you continue with the post, please hit the start button down below, read the passage and then hit the stop button w...
What It's Really Like To Make A Website
Published on: 5/1/2015 - 5 min read
What It's Really Like To Make A Website
When you think of a website, you think of WordPress nowadays. And why wouldn't you, WordPress runs 23% of all websites. With so many online...
Microsoft's HoloLens Has Some Competition
Published on: 4/30/2015 - 4 min read
Microsoft's HoloLens Has Some Competition
Microsoft today revealed a bit more info on one of their more secretive projects, the HoloLens, at Microsoft Build 2015. For those that mis...
Even Tesla And Elon Musk Are Not Immune To Getting Hacked
There I was looking through some Twitter feeds when I noticed that Tesla Motors was giving away Teslas if you called a phone number. "Amazi...
It's Time To Make Your Sites Mobile Friendly
Published on: 4/24/2015 - 4 min read
It's Time To Make Your Sites Mobile Friendly
Google just released a brand new algorithm update that should hopefully give a tiny bit more credibility to websites that follow proper mob...
Why Do So Many Websites Get Hacked
Published on: 4/15/2015 - 6 min read
Why Do So Many Websites Get Hacked
Just recently researchers published a study showing that over 29 million American health records were compromised between 2010 and 2013. Ma...
What's New With Windows 10 Technical Preview
Published on: 4/11/2015 - 5 min read
What's New With Windows 10 Technical Preview
Windows 10 is soon approaching its release day and I've been keeping up to date with it so far in the technical preview. I'm not running it...
Getting Started With Windows Powershell
Published on: 4/8/2015 - 5 min read
Getting Started With Windows Powershell
If you like Windows scripting, then you're in for a treat. If you hate scripting, then maybe Windows Powershell can help change your mind. ...
Preventing SQL Injections With Parameterized Queries
In my previous post I wrote about a few steps that you can take to better secure your website. One of those steps, probably the most import...
5 Steps To Making Your Website More Secure
Published on: 3/20/2015 - 6 min read
5 Steps To Making Your Website More Secure
Security is one of those things that are normally saved for last or ignored completely when working on a website nowadays. As most people h...
Getting Started With Node.JS On Windows
Published on: 3/17/2015 - 4 min read
Getting Started With Node.JS On Windows
For a .NET developer I do sure spend alot of time working with JavaScript. And that's alright, variety is the spice of life. And so this we...
'Secrets Of The Javascript Ninja' Review
Published on: 3/6/2015 - 6 min read
'Secrets Of The Javascript Ninja' Review
I "know" JavaScript, the way that a new college graduate "knows" every programming language ever made. When I first graduated from college ...
Game Development And Prototyping In JavaScript
In my previous post I talked about why JavaScript is such a great language for newcomers to the programming world due to it's ability to ge...
Are Deadlines Destroying The Quality of Your Work
We've all been at the barrel end of that dreaded word we call a deadline. Many of us first encountered it during our school days. "This ass...