Ethics and Enforcement in Software Engineering
02 May 2017
What is ethics in software engineering? When trying to define ethics in software engineering, the immediate idea that comes to mind is to not create software that intentionally harms people. This definition obviously covers malware and any malicious code which...
Software Engineering
Ethics
Online Harassment
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Getting to Grips with Meteor
23 Mar 2017
Meteor Ups and Downs In my previous essay, I talked about how I’ve been learning Meteor, which is a Javascript web framework that combines both the front-end and back-end. Coding itself is very difficult, and having to code around a...
Software Engineering
Meteor
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Meteor Gotchas
09 Mar 2017
Meteor Over the past few weeks I’ve been learning how to use Meteor in one of my Computer Science classes. For those that don’t know, Meteor is a Javascript framework that combines both the front-end (part of web app that...
Software Engineering
Meteor
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The Beauty of UI Frameworks
23 Feb 2017
My History With Creating Websites UI frameworks are awesome. While some would disagree with this statement, as someone who isn’t much of a visual designer and isn’t that passionate about front-end development they are a godsend. When I first started...
UI Frameworks
Semantic UI
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Coding Standards and Why they Matter
09 Feb 2017
Coding Standards The next time you read a book or paper, try to take note of its style. When I refer to style, I’m talking about aspects that range from what perspective it is being written in to the criteria...
Coding Standards
ESLint
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Configuration Management Reflection
31 Jan 2017
Configuration Management Thoughts I think that configuration management is an incredibly important and vital skill for every programmer. It allows you to accomplish many things, from having a history of your code that you can revert back to to easily...
Github
Configuration Management
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Asking Smart Questions
26 Jan 2017
Smart Questions This may surprise people who have never programmed, but quite a large percentage of a programmer’s time is spent googling, searching, reading, and even asking for answers. Any person that has spent some chunk of time programming, however,...
Smart Questions
Stack Overflow
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Software Engineering and Me
20 Jan 2017
My Story When I started college I was lost and adrift. The previous sentence certainly rings a bell to a large portion of college students today, but it rang painfully loudly for me. I had just finished high school and...
Software Engineering
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Early Javascript Thoughts
19 Jan 2017
Javascript After over a week of being introduced to the basic syntax of Javascript and solving some small problems with it, the first word that comes to mind about it is ‘interesting’. Now, I realize that the word interesting can...
Javascript
Athletic Programming
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