Software Development News and Articles

A Recap of Comikaze 2014
Published on: 11/4/2014 - 3 min read
A Recap of Comikaze 2014
This is my 4th time attending Stan Lee's Comikaze and it's never a dull moment. It's normally held in the Los Angeles Convention Center,...
Microsoft Band Unboxing And First Impression
Published on: 11/3/2014 - 8 min read
Microsoft Band Unboxing And First Impression
This is probably the most I've been excited for a new gadget in quite some time and Microsoft did a fantastic job at keeping the entire thi...
Bing Torque And OK Google Comparison
Published on: 11/1/2014 - 5 min read
Bing Torque And OK Google Comparison
Microsoft just released their "OK Google" competitor for Android Wear, Bing Torque. Torque is a Bing powered voice search application for A...
Loot Crate October 2014 Unboxing
Published on: 10/27/2014 - 3 min read
Loot Crate October 2014 Unboxing
This is probably my favorite LootCrate so far. And not just because of the awesome Cat/Skull shirt. But of course that helped. This months ...
More Interview Questions To Share
Published on: 10/22/2014 - 6 min read
More Interview Questions To Share
Another interview and another set of questions to answer. Personally, I enjoy most interviews. You get to test yourself out and work on you...
How To Run Windows 10 Technical Preview On A Virtual Machine
Windows 10 is currently out and it is buggy as heck. As it should be, as it is still in it's Technical Preview phase. But it is quickly gro...
A Look At Windows 10 Technical Preview
Published on: 10/12/2014 - 6 min read
A Look At Windows 10 Technical Preview
The Windows 10 Technical Preview is currently out and making its round through the interwebs. Since it's in technical preview it's still bu...
Database Normalization Is Good And Bad
Published on: 10/8/2014 - 5 min read
Database Normalization Is Good And Bad
Every developer does it subconsciously nowadays. We create a database schema and we normalize it without thinking about it. At least I hope...
Loot Crate September 2014 Unboxing
Published on: 10/2/2014 - 3 min read
Loot Crate September 2014 Unboxing
Another month and more stuff to add to the old desk. This months LootCrate had some really cool items in it. The theme was Galactic and g...
Humble Bundle PC And Android 11
Published on: 9/30/2014 - 6 min read
Humble Bundle PC And Android 11
The Humble Bundle PC and Android 11 has just hit the interwebs, and I am surprisingly excited. If you read the previous post about the Humb...
Implementing Amazon's Product Advertising API In C#
If you have an Amazon Affiliate account then at some point in your life you're probably going to be tired of managing products manually and...
Humble Indie Bundle 12
Published on: 9/16/2014 - 5 min read
Humble Indie Bundle 12
I've been hearing alot about Humble Indie Bundle from friends for a while so I decided to check it out. I'm not a huge fan of Indie games i...
Working With CSS3 FlexBox
Published on: 9/12/2014 - 4 min read
Working With CSS3 FlexBox
FlexBox, or Flexible Box, is a CCS3 layout mode that arranges the elements in a way that they behave predictably when the page changes to a...
ASUS Flip 15.6 Inch Review
Published on: 9/10/2014 - 5 min read
ASUS Flip 15.6 Inch Review
I just picked up the ASUS 15.6 Inch Flip 2 in 1 from Amazon because I needed to replace a slightly outdated Asus machine that I picked up a...
Beginning Android Development Part 7 - File Saving
File Saving In the previous post we learned how to save data to the SharedPreferences files in Android, which is great for small bits of da...
Beginning Android Development Part 6 - Saving Data
It's hard nowadays to find a website or Windows application that doesn't make use of a database in some way. Android apps are no exception....
Beginning Android Development Part 5 (Fragments)
User Controls, Modules, Fragments, call them what you will but they all do the same job. Reusable snippets of code with their own state and...
Beginning Android Development Part 4 (Life Cycle)
Every Android app goes through a series of steps in order to get where it's going in a user friendly fashion. Normally, you get a splash...
Beginning Android Development Part 3 (Action Bar)
The action bar that is. A very important part of almost any Android application, the Action Bar lives at the top of most applications and...
Beginning Android Development Part 2 - Controls
Published on: 8/22/2014 - 6 min read
Beginning Android Development Part 2 - Controls
So Day 2 of Android development is about to commence. I went through the SDK installation and AVD creation in the previous post, and this t...