- Brief Introduction to REST
Perhaps you've seen the term REST being thrown around lately and have been a little curious what it's all about. If that's the case, or you know a little about it but never used it, this article is for you. Today I'm going to give a small overview of what REST services are, and why it's awesome.
8 min read - May 21, 2015 - How to Blink an LED on a Raspberry Pi
The blinking LED is the hello world of the maker community, and today I'll show you how easy it is to do with the Raspberry Pi 2 (or Model B)!
4 min read - Mar 17, 2015 - How to Write Better Unit Tests
In working with some unit testing fairly extensively lately, I've gathered some guidelines I've tried to stick with over the years for writing better tests.
3 min read - Aug 24, 2014 - Common C# Interview Questions
I was reading a post about some common C# interview questions, and thought I'd share some of mine. These are questions that I asked in interviews, or was asked in past interviews. Try them out and see you how you do!
3 min read - Aug 3, 2014 - Properties vs Fields in C#
One of the areas that causes a lot of confusion for new C# developers is the idea of properties and fields. It's an easy thing to mess up and there aren't really any solid rules on it, but here are some general guidelines to help you decide how to use these members in your project.
4 min read - May 4, 2014 - Smell It Before You Eat It
Whether you're developing for a personal project, small business or Fortune 100, you should take the time to make sure your changes aren't going to break things. In times past this usually meant spending lots of money. These days the only thing you'll need to spend for quality is time, and not much of it.
6 min read - Apr 29, 2014 - Just How Fast Are GitHub Pages?
Recently GitHub rolled out some improvements to their GitHub Pages static page hosting services. I decided to do a comparison and put them to the test.
5 min read - Feb 7, 2014 - Hazardous Attitudes in Software Development
With software projects it's rare that a failure can be pointed a single cause, or a certain person. Usually it's a culmination of many smaller mistakes. With technology and formal project management, best practices are usually well documented and available, but one thing that isn't talked about as much is attitude. The attitude of persons in your group or your group as a whole is one of the biggest factors of your success.
5 min read - Dec 7, 2013 - Top Free Image Optimization Tools
Making your images load faster is extremely important for page load performance on your site. Here are some free tools to help you shave down your image size while retaining quality
4 min read - Sep 17, 2013 - Why Linux Mint is Awesome
Linux Mint is one of the most under-rated Linux distribution out there, yet it really does provide a lot of value, even for seasoned Linux hackers. If you haven't tried it out yet, you're missing out.
4 min read - Sep 10, 2013
