For the client I’m currently doing some consulting for, I recommended that they switch to Git as a version control system as they are currently using Apache Subversion and have regular problems with it. I won’t go into a history of Git or Subversion, but I normally recommend Git or Mercurial over a centralized system [...]

As mentioned in my earlier article, Technical Debt, refactoring your code is very important.  It’s the primary method of managing/reducing technical debt, and helps to constantly improve your codebase. However, knowing what to refactor, what to refactor first, and how to refactor code isn’t always obvious. What Is Refactoring? Refactoring is the act of modifying [...]

Technical debt is an issue that all programmers have to deal with at some point in their careers, and more often than not, it’s an ongoing issue. What is technical debt, you ask? When you do something the quick & dirty way, such as patching up a bug without fixing the underlying issue, or prototyping [...]

If you’re in the web development world, you’ve probably been hearing about Twitter Bootstrap, a new HTML/CSS framework that takes some of the tedium out of setting up a web application. Instead of worrying about creating basic styles for forms, layouts, tables, etc., you can just jump in and start coding your application. For me, [...]

FizzBuzz is a very popular “test” used when interviewing programmers. It’s mostly used to filter out people who can’t actually program. Now you may wonder why such a test would be necessary, after all, why would somebody who can’t program apply for a programming job? The unfortunate truth is, many people believe they can program [...]