I was perusing through the latest Java news today when I stumbled across an article talking about how Oracle is changing their update / critical patch versioning number scheme to address confusion experienced by industry experts and from within the company itself. Of course the problem is that this change created even more confusion. It got me thinking about how the tech world today seems to be experiencing more and ...
I have read a lot of blog posts talking about answering certain types of interview questions in technical interviews. Being that I have had a few interviews myself during the course of my career, I have become somewhat a pro at them. I have to say that many programmers just don't realize that going for a job, and being in an interview, is just as much about you interviewing the ...
One of the common questions I often run into from new programmers to JavaScript or PHP is how to pass values back and forth between the two. The quagmire is that JavaScript is a client side language (most of the time) and PHP is a server-side language. Once you know how the process works when someone submits some data on the front end, and how it is manipulated and returned ...
I found that there was little in the way of examples using Application-Only OAuth for Twitter using Java. So I thought I would put together the basics for those looking for the same thing. This demo example below shows you how to acquire a bearer token and then using that token to issue requests to Twitter's REST API version 1.1. However, only endpoints that don't need to have a user ...
So you are new to programming and you want some quick and easy tips for making better software. Sure there are ton of sites out there talking about all these subjects on code structure and best practices, but which ones can give you some immediate bang for your buck? Which ones should you follow right out of the gate to get off to a great start? We have compiled 6 ...
Move over actors, step aside jocks, there is a new type of athlete coming through and if you wish to speak with them you need to contact their agent! I caught an article from Businessweek awhile ago that talked about how some Silicon Valley developers are starting to get their own agents to handle negotiating their rates and setup the classic "pay to play" scenario. Many people don't realize that ...
