Tag: Programming
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So, You Want to Learn to Program?
An old friend of mine got in touch with me today and asked: Hey man… Best idea for beginning to learn programming? I was actually very excited when my friend reached out because, in my opinion, learning to program is something that can only enhance one’s possibility of advancement in many careers. But, Before You…
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Users Do the Damnedest Things
QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a sfdeljknesv. — Bill Sempf (@sempf) September 23, 2014 I had a good laugh over this tweet yesterday when I read -1 beers. After all, who the hell orders negative beers? But as…
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#21 – In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
I found this amusing since recursion is definitely one of the computer science subjects that I struggled with the most in university. I remember having to manually draw stacks on paper to keep track of values and how deep in recursion I was. I might have to see how much it costs to print this…
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Basic Authentication in WordPress
About a month ago, I worked on a plugin to help retrieve a lawyer’s reviews from the AVVO API. One of the key aspects of connecting with the AVVO API was using basic authentication, which was a new method of connecting to an API for me. What is Basic Authentication? Basic authentication requires that an…