You’ll always have to deal with memory issues, no matter the programming language. Even with the Java programming language, if the right precautions are not taken, you will have some sort of memory leaks, memory issue, out of memory exception, or heap size problem. I’ve seen two common types of memory issues in every application [...]
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I love me a good burrito, and although Chipotle is not my favorite burrito joint, they do have an online order system that makes ordering lunch for a team of hungry, and picky, developers simple. But while scheduling a pick up order for the entire team I felt more like a tester than a customer. [...]
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Every production application I have been involved with has made use of a database. As a programmer, you don’t have to be a DBA, but just as with software development you need to adhere to a core set of database best practices. Below are a few of the best practices I try to follow. Use [...]
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Even thought I am a Windows user, I am no where near a Microsoft lackey but recently I learned that Microsoft is giving away a ton of professional grade software to students. Through the Microsoft DreamSpark program, students can get access to Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft Expression Studio, XNA [...]
Here is a list of great programming quotes from my readings over the last year. It is interesting to note that most of my reading material this year has been from blogs. There are just a great amount of programmer bloggers writing a lot of informative tutorials on every programming language, paradigm shift, and framework [...]
If you are familiar with web application development you may already be familiar with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. The MVC pattern aims to separate your server side business logic from your presentation code from your data model. The by-product of web applications are the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript pages generated and delivered to the [...]