In the wake of the recent news of Google buying another app company (Waze), for a ridiculous amount of money I got to thinking about all those people who contribute their time and efforts in such crowdsourcing apps. In such a buy out situation the crowd doesn't usually get much but perhaps new ads and degraded support in an app / service that was working perfectly fine before the buy ...
If you have ever tried your hand at building an HTML email you may have quickly discovered that a lot of the techniques you use for the desktop/mobile web simply don't work. Designing HTML formatted emails these days, and have them work on the plethora of email clients out there flawlessly, is quite a chore. It makes you feel like you are designing with one arm tied behind your back ...
It is hard to believe that in a few more short years I will be approaching my 20th anniversary as a programmer. During my career I have tried the best I can to stay on top of the trends, see what others are doing, work for companies who are perhaps a bit lost in the legacy realm and push those companies into the current waves of innovation. One thing I ...
PHP 5 in Practice is a PHP recipe book from Elliott White III and Jonathan D. Eisenhamer. Its most recent printing was in 2007 and is part of the "Developer's Library" series from Sams Publishing. At 456 pages in length, this book is a bit shorter than some of the other books I have reviewed over the past several months. I have become a big fan of the Developer's Library ...
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 ...
