Updated with more suggestions! Christmas is literally around the corner! So if you haven’t got any idea of what buy your software developer/programmer friends then perhaps this post is going to help you a lot. Buying gifts isn’t always easy as we don’t always know what the other person likes,... View Article
Today we talk about the best cross-platform text editors for coders. I have spent some time working with each of them and now I’d like to share it with you. These are the text editors that works on all major operating systems, namely Linux, OSX and Windows. Brackets This one... View Article
I have been implementing Ember data for one of my projects and one of the most interesting handy features that ember data has is polymorphic models. As the name suggests, this is ember data’s implementation of polymorphism. The first time I use ember data however, requires me spending a lot of... View Article
I have an older Dell Mini 1012 sitting in my so called “museum”. It was just there doing nothing and I’ve been wondering what can I use that machine for. I already have the 13 inch Macbook Pro which is pretty portable anyway by today’s standard and I already have... View Article
This happens to me during one of my projects and I caught it pretty late. It really caused some serious headache. The scenario is this, I was building a web application which has a lot of elements. Basically the screen displays tabular data with lots of prices information being displayed.... View Article
It is a common experience for all software developers to browse around and search for the perfect IDE for their software development needs. This can be tricky as it all depends on the budget, development hardware platforms and programming language needs. So I have decided to share my top 3... View Article
Building a new website is always exciting, especially if its your own. First you design in your favourite graphic design software such as Illustrator, Inkscape, Photoshop or GIMP. Then you start applying the design into your website. The problem is that sometimes we get carried away with our CSS. We... View Article
Visitor pattern is one of my favourite software engineering design pattern. This technique enables us to extend the functionality of an object without having to modify its class codes. In a nutshell, this patten involves one main object and many visitors objects. The main object will have the ability to... View Article
This is a first post of our series “back to basic”. We understand that there are always people starting out to be developers such as first year university students or just experienced developers wanting to revisit the basic. The aim of this series is exactly that, revisiting programming concepts using... View Article
Before we look at the code snippets, yes there is no such thing as associative array in JavaScript, they are all objects. But really, a lot of people search for “how do we get JavaScript associative array length?” so I might as well publish this short post. So say we have an... View Article