Category: Technology
Parsing Strings into Different Data Types
There are two fundamental things to understand about parsing strings. Unless another program is making the string that you’re parsing, things can always go awry (and a program may not always make it correctly...
Should we teach Unit Testing Along with Programming?
Why are we still teaching programming without teaching unit testing? Do we ever want quality code?
Getting Orders Into the System
For this first step, I describe a system that I’m using to get orders into my system.
Building an Inventory Management Application
When you have a problem to solve and you can write your own applications, you have to start by choosing whether to buy or build. For me, it’s time to build.
Teamwork At Home
COVID-19 has allowed my whole team to connect for meetings separately, which gives everyone an equal voice– something interesting and unique about this time. I think I may see if we can make this a permanent change.
The First Thing To Do With Your New WordPress Site
So you are about to kick of your brand new website and you’ve chosen WordPress for the Content Management System (CMS) for that site. What’s the first thing that you should do? Sure, you’ve...
Let’s Start with SELECT
I must type “SELECT * FROM …..” hundreds of times a day. Would it be more efficient to specify the columns or save the SQL so that I don’t have to keep typing it...
Four Basic Commands
I think I’ve been brainwashed by movies to think that imparting knowledge to the next generation can take place during a 5 minute montage where they go from knowing nothing about coding to being...
Teaching Kids SQL
Teaching kids how to program should be similar to teaching them English or a different language. I stress should. As any programmer knows, while what we do could be boiled down to a few concepts...
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