If I remembered correctly during my university years there were very little reasoning provided for adhering to code standards apart from the occasional fear that we might lose mark. This is not the right attitude to be taught to budding programmers, it lacks the long term reasoning of software maintenance.... View Article
The Danger of Interruptions The worst problem is of course the fact that according to a research, interruptions drop a person’s IQ up to 10 points which is 4 points more than smoking marijuana 1, concerning indeed. The paper also further explained that in order to return to the fully... View Article
A few days ago I had a request to build a word counter for a website. One of the condition is that the words included in the count have to be unique. I couldn’t find any software or browser plugins that can do this straight away, so I decided to... View Article
Keyboard and mouse the two most ubiquitous computing equipment that we always take for granted. Lately I’ve been paying attention at them again, courtesy of some conversation with my colleagues. I think the last time I really choose the type and brands of my keyboard and mouse was during my... View Article
One of the more common mistakes that web developers made is the scoping of “this”. This would be one of the criteria of understanding that most testers would look at when hiring new developers. This short post will show a simple code snippet showing how to keep the scoping of... View Article