2014

• Balancing Confidence, Arrogance, Ignorance, and Humility

  Something I've picked up in my first professional job is that nobody appreciates humility. While being humble is a virtue, it's not one that's usually appreciated in the workplace.

• Regular Expressions

  Regular expressions are hard. There's a lot to them that vary between different regular expression engines. They're often considered to be an afterthought when it comes to a programmer's tools due to the relative infrequency at which they're used.

• Problems: Binary Tree Designs

  So I've been brushing up and working with binary trees recently and I was pleasantly reminded how binary trees can flex and change while still maintaining the same data. It was fun testing self balancing trees when they would keep changing up on me.

• Unit Testing Random Behavior With Mock Objects

  What happens when you're trying to write some unit tests and suddenly you need to test a method with non-deterministic properties. In other words how do you test a method whose expected behavior is random behavior? The answer is with mock objects.

• Problems: Halloween Edition

  You're a kid, and tonight's the greatest night a kid could have next to Christmas. Halloween night is coming soon and you're prepping your bags for the trick or treating. The problem is, is that your parents are tired and are only willing to walk a certain number of feet before they call it a night.

• Framework Frustration

  Let me preface this by saying that I understand why frameworks exists. They solve repeatable problems in application development in a team environment by maintaining consistent development standards with tried and tested techniques that stood the test of time against thousands of projects and developer input that's supposed to ultimately save the developer time.

• Javascript, Pass by Value or Pass by Reference?

  This is something you don't have to question until you need to pass the contents of an object around or pass the same exact reference around. For me this knowledge became important during the development of Angular and Node applications where objects and primitives are passed around like a hot potato.

• Blog Inauguration

  Hi, my name's Jason and all these other programming blogs told me that I should start writing. I've been reading alot about how programmers that write assist in the thinking and solidifying process.