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Published on: 12/17/2020 - 2 min read

Improve the battery life of your Surface laptop

The Surface laptops are my go to these days for most of my work. The only downside to them is that the battery life isn't as futuristic and ...

Published on: 12/16/2020 - 3 min read

3 Windows 10 hacks to make your life easier

You are either a Windows person or a Mac person these days. I'm a .NET developer, so that puts me in the Windows category for the most part....

Javascript

Published on: 12/15/2020 - 3 min read

How to bind events in JavaScript to dynamic elements

Thanks in part to Ajax and front-end heavy frameworks like React and Angular, much of a website these days is generated in real-time dynamic...

Career

Published on: 12/11/2020 - 4 min read

4 things to avoid in your personal programming portfolio

If you have a portfolio on the web with your own custom URL, then congratulations, that is half the battle when looking for a job. The other...

Computer Science

Published on: 12/10/2020 - 4 min read

3 reasons why you shouldn't get a degree in Computer Science

Before I start, I will say that I do in fact have a degree in Computer Science from a reputable university. Getting the degree fit in line w...

Published on: 12/9/2020 - 4 min read

What's the difference between a text editor and an IDE?

A common question that I often is why do I use Visual Studio 2019 instead of VS Code? Good question. Complex answer. Let's get into it.The t...

Career

Published on: 12/7/2020 - 5 min read

Mistakes I made at my first programming job

Just like in the Matrix, everybody falls their first time. You don't know what you don't know and what you don't know can sometimes cause th...

ASP.NET

Published on: 12/5/2020 - 3 min read

How to bundle resource files in C# and ASP.NET

Many ASP.NET developers don't realize that the .NET framework comes with a built in bundler for all of their many resource files. What is a ...

Published on: 12/2/2020 - 5 min read

How to not over engineer your code

I do it all the time. And it is hard not to sometimes when you get into the flow and you keep thinking of cool new feature after cool new fe...

Programming

Published on: 12/1/2020 - 4 min read

3 tips for the self-taught programmer

Learning anything in life is challenging. Whether it's skateboarding, writing, painting or coding. You don't know what you don't know and be...

Programming

Published on: 11/30/2020 - 6 min read

5 tips to help you land your first programming job

Whether you just finished college finally after 4 years of hard work, or maybe you just completed a 6 month coding bootcamp, or even ma...

Productivity

Published on: 11/27/2020 - 4 min read

3 skills every programmer needs to develop

A programmer is many things. Particularly at a company. Not only do they build the software that other people rely on, but they also act lik...

Coding Bootcamps

Published on: 11/25/2020 - 5 min read

Should you attend an online coding bootcamp in 2021?

Now more than ever, everything is going online. Our shopping is online, our communications are online and our educations are online. And it'...

Computer Science

Published on: 11/24/2020 - 4 min read

3 reasons why you should get a Computer Science degree

Tech CEO's have had a weird impact during the past decade influencing many young folks to avoid college all together and to go out on their ...

Programming

Published on: 11/23/2020 - 5 min read

Your first month at your first programming job

If you remember your first day in high school, or any school, it's alot like that. You don't know anyone or where anything is. There's alot ...

Javascript

Published on: 11/20/2020 - 5 min read

Is it still okay to use jQuery in 2020?

I get this question asked all of the time from my students. And my answer will typically be something like "Why is it wrong to use jQuery?"....

Javascript

Published on: 11/1/2020 - 2 min read

Capitalize the first letter of any string in JavaScript

While there is no direct bulit-in function in JavaScript (yet) to capitalize the first letter of a string, there are various ways that you c...

Published on: 10/30/2020 - 2 min read

Randomize an array in JavaScript

Randomizing arrays can be helpful in various situations such as shuffling a deck of cards or when you just need a unique dataset for testin...

Javascript

Published on: 10/12/2020 - 5 min read

Creating a right-click contextual menu in JavaScript

Right click contextual menu's are a great way to hide menu items that are less commonly used, and that you want to keep out of sight until ...

Gadgets

Published on: 10/8/2020 - 5 min read

Is the Surface Pro X good for developers?

Along with the upcoming release of the Surface Laptop Go, Microsoft is also about to release the follow up to the Surface Pro X model from l...

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