In any situation, it's a good idea to befriend patterns. We are busy human beings. We have countless things on our agenda and there are simply not enough hours in the day to spend doing tedious work over and over...

One of the biggest difficulties faced with ethics in any situation is the differentiation between right and wrong. In hindsight, it may seem black and white. Right would mean that it's a good thing. Wrong would mean that it's bad....

Within the few weeks that our software engineering class has tackled a beast by the name of Meteor, I've learned a lot, not only about the application structure, but about myself as a programmer. The biggest thing being that dealing...

Coding Standards: A set of guidelines for a specific programming language that recommend programming style, practices, and methods for each aspect of a program written in that language. Definition as per Wikipedia There are two types of people in this...

The topic of this essay becomes a little ironic considering the fact that the majority of students have grown up being told the phrase “there is no such thing as a stupid question”. Granted, its purpose was to encourage students...

I’ve always considered the relationship between code and design to be a strange one. In one case, they are on complete opposite sides of the spectrum. Coding, being the logical side, would generally be black and white where one thing...