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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I just picked up the ASUS 15.6 Inch Flip 2 in 1 from Amazon because I needed to replace a slightly outdated Asus machine that I picked up a...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...
Beginning Android Development Part 1 (SDK, ADT and AVD)
I've recently decided to begin my adventures in Android development after years and years of doodling down ideas that I thought would make ...
Creating An XML Document in ASP.NET
Published on: 8/14/2014 - 6 min read
Creating An XML Document in ASP.NET
There are various different approaches to XML document creation in .NET. There is no right or wrong way really, it just depends on the situ...
Dragonball Z: Battle of Gods Review
Published on: 8/9/2014 - 4 min read
Dragonball Z: Battle of Gods Review
After 17 long years Akira Toriyama graces us once again with a brand new original DBZ feature film. Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods pits our ...
How To Write A Good Technical Resume For a Programmer
I've read tons of articles and how to's on how to write the "perfect resume". And I've followed many of those standards and rules throughou...
How To Watermark Images In C#
Published on: 7/27/2014 - 4 min read
How To Watermark Images In C#
As a developer, I hate using 3rd party software to accomplish things that would take a few minutes or hours of work. For example, watermark...
Loot Crate July 2014 Unboxing - Villains
Published on: 7/22/2014 - 3 min read
Loot Crate July 2014 Unboxing - Villains
I could get used to this. This months LootCrate just hit my mailbox and the theme this time around is "Villains". And I'd say the pack wa...