23 Mar 2017

Meteor, a Web Design Journey

First Impressions I think I made it perfectly clear when i began working with meteor that I thought it was complete garbage. I recognized it to be perfectly managable, but in a world where hundreds of frameworks exist it’s hard...

Software Engineering
Personal
Programming

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09 Mar 2017

Meteor Gotchas

Preface Anyone who has used a framework to build a website knows exactly how easy it is, anyone who has ever used two frameworks to build two seperate websites knows how difficult it is. Frameworks are essential in our web...

Software Engineering
Meteor

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21 Feb 2017

UI Frameworks. Is less more?

Preface Anyone who has sat down to develop a website from scratch (pure HTML or CSS) has probably had a bit of success. Maybe not much, just a tiny nugget of success. Perhaps, rather, they had a huge mound of...

Frameworks
Web Development
Semantic UI

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09 Feb 2017

Why coding standards are important, and your preferences are bad.

Preface Every programmer knows the struggle of deciding between tabs and spaces despite it not mattering for most languages at a compiler level. However it seems like almost everyone’s opinions on the matter are fairly strong. Is it worth it?...

Standards
Organization
Programming

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30 Jan 2017

Configuration Managment, A long journey.

The Evolution The first group project I ever worked on was between me and a few of my friends. The code was mostly done in a similar space and was traded around using emails and jump drives. The project inevitably...

Software Engineering
Personal
Programming

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16 Feb 2016

How Bad Questions Ruin Good Programmmers

Preface Communication is the basis for human society and somewhere along the lines that trickled down to software engineering as well. While code can be interpreted by looking at it or by careful trial and error most people find themselves...

Stack Overflow
Questions
Programming

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16 Feb 2016

First Impressions - Javascript

Preface While this isn’t the first time I have used Javascript, this is the first time I’ve used it in a traditional programming manner. I have a personal bias against interpretted languages from a speed perspective but I do concede...

Software Engineering
Programming
Javascript

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16 Feb 2016

Computers, Programming, and How It Changed My Life.

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” -- Nelson Mandela The first time I designed anything on a computer was on the first day of a...

Software Engineering
Personal
Programming

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