Java 9: Whats New, Highlights, Features, and Tools
Java 9 Whats New expands on our previous JavaOne 2017 review, going into a more in-depth coverage of some of the more major features in Java 9. Read more
An Introduction to the Business-Focused Episodes
Becoming a better developer requires us to understand the business side of our solutions. Therefore, this series of topics is highly valuable. They also help our goal of becoming a better entrepreneur. This first episode provides an overview of what to expect from the business-focused category. Why Business-Focused? One of the big complaints about developers is a lack of building solutions for the “real world.” Thus, we want to spend time looking at how to tie our latest technical advances back to well-grounded business needs. In the long run, this will help us avoid building solutions in an ivory tower. This approach also helps us build solutions that sell. Therefore, adding to our bottom line rather than purely an academic exercise.... Read more
Product Catalog: Building a WordPress Plugin for our Product Catalog
This next lesson expands our interaction with the data in our database by converting our MVC web application into a WordPress Plugin. Read more
Great Developer Tools To Be Thankful For
As I write this, it is a season of being thankful. In this spirit, it is worth looking at developer tools for which we should be grateful. The young amongst us may not know how much more productive development has become over the last fifty years. Time to appreciate what we have. Integrated Development Environments Depending on your age, you may have heard about or even coded with card decks. These decks are not an old version of Pokemon. It was a process where holes were punched in cards to write code. I don’t want to revisit that. However, now we have systems and tools that write your code. Code completion, easily save and test your code? That never happened until... Read more
An Introduction To the Developer Focused Episodes
We will start the tech track of episodes with an overview of what topics to expect. This discussion also helps tie our past blog post articles into these upcoming podcast episodes. We want to set a suitable destination as we embark on this journey. Thus, this too looks at what we think makes for a better developer. Be A Better Developer We start from ground zero. However, it will not hurt to try out our Launching an Internet Business series of tutorials. The tutorials ask for only a few minutes a day and are a great tool for building a habit. They also help you see where we are coming from. All of this as well as some of the areas we... Read more
Patterns of Software Design
Every challenge we face has solutions patterns. These are approaches to a problem that solves it consistently. Some software patterns provide the fastest solution, some the cheapest, and others the most aesthetically pleasing. Popular and Useful Software Patterns Object-oriented design is more about the design than the objects. We try to keep our focus on simple solutions that use objects instead of utilizing all that OOD offers us in building a solution. Although OOD offers a lot of great ways to organize tight and efficient code, it can be overdone. As part of the presentation, we look at finding a balance between reality and the academic side of OOD. This episode can be viewed as the next step in our building... Read more