You’ve likely seen a Big-O chart that looks something like the one below. There are plenty of other sites that will give you a technical breakdown of how to calculate Big-O time and space complexities. (Big-O Cheat Sheet or VisuAlgo)… Read More ›
In my 15+ years of teaching, I have discovered that the students who seem to learn the fastest and get the most out of a week of training are those who have previous exposure to the thing being taught. So… Read More ›
A Short History For the past 15 years or so I have not had to keep my certifications up to date. My jobs simply have not required it. But that was not always the case. When I started my career… Read More ›
So Many Languages So you want to learn to write code. You may love computers, you might love gaming, maybe you just watched a movie about hacking and you got excited. So you did a little research to figure out… Read More ›
When developing you will inevitably try to start a new process only to find that the port is already in use. You have a few options on how to resolve this issue. Option 1: Use the npm kill-port package… Read More ›
Scripts to Update Database Values Executing scripts to update incorrect values in a database should be done with care. If a script dynamically updates a value based on a calculation it is possible that each subsequent execution of the script… Read More ›
This is part 1 of a 4 part series related to the concept of idempotency as it relates to computer science and software engineering. Idempotence: a term used in mathematics and computer science to describe a function that can be executed… Read More ›
Back in 2015 when Angular made the jump from AngularJS to Angular2 (now just Angular) there were a lot of naysayers claiming that this would be the death of Angular, and that React would win out. At that time I… Read More ›
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I’ve been a software engineer for almost 2 decades now, and I love it. I spent much of that time teaching others how to program, and it amazes me how much I love watching others get as excited about… Read More ›
One of my pet peeves with SharePoint has been that whenever I navigate to a SharePoint site on my local domain, it still prompts me for my login credentials. I have to provide the credentials with which I am already… Read More ›
I often find myself restoring databases from backup so that I can move a database from one server to another. The problem is that the backup has users that have permissions associated with them, but those users don’t link to… Read More ›
Dynamically added controls disappear on postback At first glance it appears that adding a control to a form dynamically is quite simple. In fact, adding a control to a form is simple. The problem is when you need to perform… Read More ›
What are the STACK and the HEAP? To fully understand how memory is managed in the .NET Framework you need to understand the difference between the Stack and the Heap. This lesson introduces you to those differences and how it… Read More ›