Don’t Lose the Forest for the Binary Search Trees
14 May 2021
Admittingly, I thought of software engineering purely as a coding endeavour. A practice that taught you how to write cool code - and that was all there is to it. However as I have experienced: software engineering practices, or rather...
Agile Project Management
Ethics in Software Engineering
Software Engineering
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If Claude Monet Used IntelliJ
29 Apr 2021
The artist Claude Monet, creator of various masterpieces, painted pieces of art out of a single element: a dot. Monet was famous for creating ‘impressionism’ art, a way of painting in a local, seemingly isolated spot of a canvas and...
Design Patterns
Pblication-subscription Pattern
Observer Data Pattern
Advice
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How to Get By With SemanticUI!
25 Feb 2021
When I was first introduced to the SemanticUI framework I was extremely intimidated - nothing made sense! The various elements and seemingly endless customization options were overwhelming and suffocating. To put this into perspective, reading the SemanticUI documentation is the...
SemanticUI
Learning
UI Design
UI Frameworks
Advice
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Touché, IntelliJ
11 Feb 2021
I remember the first time I wrote a Microsoft Word essay back in middle school, the page was literally littered with red and green squiggly lines reminding me (taunting me, rather) of my spelling and grammar mistakes. As irritating as...
Coding Standards
Learning
IntelliJ
ESLint
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Good Intentions, Bad Questions
28 Jan 2021
The point of a question is to receive an answer, right? Notice the irony as I ask a rhetorical question. I’ve sent previous professors and teaching assistants long winded questions, completely over exhausting their patience and tolerance. I would then...
Question asking
Learning
Advice
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I've Got 99 Problems, But Worrying About a Return Type Isn't One
20 Jan 2021
JavaScript, so far, rocks. This is coming from someone whose first language was C. Don’t get me wrong, C is amazing. But JavaScript feels like a mirage: too good to be true. As you can tell from the title, the...
Software Engineering
Learning
JavaScript
WOD
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Maybe no Medical School for Me
20 Jan 2021
Total disclaimer: I was supposed to go to medical school, (sorry mom and dad). Don’t get me wrong, medicine is amazing, and you probably don’t need me to tell you that. We’re in an age where a surgeon can literally...
Software Engineering
Learning
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