On Writing Software Wrong: Ruby on Rails
To scope or not to scope......
Latest articles
A lawyers' guide to understanding "module.exports" and "require" in nodejs.
Many times we in our day-to-day use of nodejs, we rely on requiring or importing some functionality to our current file. Requiring of a file and its importation is made possible with the "require()" function which reads, executes, and then returns th...
Object-Oriented Programming explained using a Pizza Hut customer-care agent. Yeah, you read that right.
Me: Hello? Hello? oh hi, I am Anthony and I am calling in to know if you have some pepperoni pizza? This is XYZ pizza store right? Agent: Yes Mr. Anthony, can you give me a second. Oh sorry sir, we do not have pepperoni pizza. The dialogue above i...
Understanding Big O notation With The "Fried Plantain" Algorithm...Yeah you read that right
Nothing caused me so much pain in the head like wrapping my head around what Big O notation is. I am a disciple of the Famous Feynmann Technique: "if you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it". My goal in this piece is to simply explain ...
OOP and its four pillars(a pharmacological approach to understanding it).
Object-oriented programming can be a hard pill to swallow and when it comes to understanding it at its core, its 4 pillars must be well understood. Just like you, I had a tough time understanding this concept. So to make your head hurt less than mine...
Events and Delegates in C# How the hell do they work?
On my quest into learning C#, events, and delegates really got my head spinning. I reckon it may have been because I wondered why an event would be used when a delegate can be defined by the "publisher class" and then have "subscriber classes or obj...
Fields: when to use "private" or "readonly" in c# ?
Most times we want to protect some fields in our program and as with all things, the situation determines the approach. Encapsulation has always been one of the cornerstones of object-oriented programming (OOP). The ability to choose which state or d...
Short read: enums in place of const in c#
I promise this is short read lol. An enumeration is a distinct value type, housing a set of named constants (known as the enumerator list). So, let's say you what to create a class called chemistry and you need to deal with certain constant temperatu...
A lawyers Guide to Understanding Collections in C sharp: Part 1.
Often times we find ourselves needing to store and organize data. Luckily for us, C sharp provides us with namespaces that can provide us with these awesome tools. We will be looking at three of the namespaces provided by c# : 1. System.Collections....
