Last Saturday, I gave yet another talk on getting started with AngularJS and with good success. I found myself wondering though, along the way, why is it that we keep needing these “getting started” talks with Angular? What makes it so complicated? Why do we need endless “basic” tutorials? I think the answer lies in […]
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Every programming paradigm has a peak point, the point of no return that I call the “A-ha!” moment. It’s the moment where you get “it” and “it” is no longer confusing. You may not understand all the facets of the paradigm but you know enough to exponentially move forward, using professional tutorials and literature as […]
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Please, for the love of God(s)*(esses)*, consider what happens when your post takes off when it’s on HN, or Reddit, or hell, even Twitter. It may happen to anyone. And it’s absolutely horrendous to see the “Error could not connect” page or just an infinite loading time. And worse yet, the top comment will probably […]
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In the past //build/ conference, Microsoft did something that it hasn’t done in a long time, it got people excited about developing on their platform. Talk after talk, they introduced new features and new technology welcomed by any C#, ASP, or .NET geek and many of those that have long strayed from that path. The […]
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I originally wanted to write this neat piece on how solving the “get a number from the fibonacci sequence” problem can teach YOU a lot but over the past year, I’ve realized that programming is such a personal experience that I believe I’d do you injustice by preaching and schooling you. Instead, I’d like to […]
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Algorithms are a pretty interesting aspect of coding. Of course, they’re not solely part of coding, as the definition states: Algorithm: a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor. But as a developer, I see algorithms as they pertain to developing systems […]
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NodeJS is a lightweight technology that no one has yet conquered and shackled in the prison of “Best Practices”. When coding a new app, there’s no list of frameworks to use, no service containers to worry about, no definitions, no injections or ejections or what have you. When you start a new app, there’s app.js […]
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With new tools allowing us to version more parts of our application, it’s time to truly version everything, and treat our applications as dependencies
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If you’re still plagued by having to use Ruby 1.9.3 and you may be using, idk, Vagrant or any other type of testing environment, or just your own machine, you may have encountered the following error when installing either “debugger-ruby_core_source” or the “debugger-linecache” package. This can particularly happen if you’re using RVM or other ruby […]
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Anchor CMS is the designer’s dream content management system. Learn how to effectively and quickly skin it with some PHP, and Bootstrap 3. Example is available for preview AND download.
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