After ten years or so of working in technology, I thought it was time to put together some thoughts. There's a lot of things that matter as a technologist, but writing code is only one of many.
It’s no secret that I absolutely love JavaScript and Node.js. For those that don’t know Node.js is a framework that is built…
For the last 10+ years or so, I’ve been programming professionally. Even with ten years of practice, I still am unable to…
As a software developer, it’s really important to take time and improve your programming skills by learning new technologies and techniques. By…
As many Salesforce Apex programmers know, in Salesforce it’s pretty much an unchallenged best practice that all code should be able to…
Practical Salesforce.com Development Without Code written by Phil Weinmeister has been recently released. I think the book really targets those new to…
Computers have interested me virtually my entire life. I don’t remember when I got my 1st computer, I remember my dad and…
It’s no secret that I work as a freelance software/web developer and often jump around between languages. I, continually, run into projects…
jQuery in Action, First Edition is written by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz and is probably the simplest and easiest to understand…
Error messages should be clear and include what the error is, why it was caused and how to resolve it.
I have been trolling Craigslist and Kijiji lately in hopes of finding some additional freelance work to add to my portfolio before…
For the last couple of weeks, I have began playing around with Drupal because I'm so sick of fighting proprietary CMS. The proprietary CMS suffers from the vendor updating only updating the CMS when convenient for them and this ends up holding the purchaser hostage. Overall, I know that drupal has enough of the functionality that I need in modules and the core to significantly improve the efficiency of my programming and possibly offer a large learning opportunity on software architecture.
The easiest method of checking whether Skype is installed is actually to check for a Registry Key. We, of course, can’t check…
Have you ever wanted to have the ability for the colour of a row to change when your user moves the mouse…
RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and is an XML specification published by the W3C. RSS became a standardized specification…