Software Engineering

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Silos and How They Impede Productivity

Have you ever started a new job and there were tickets waiting for you? I'm talking eight month old issues in the backlog that have multiple comments that increase in frustration, and then end with, "On hold until we hire a SME (Subject Matter Expert) to figure this stupid shit out."

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Where to Find Remote Jobs

Edit: This (unfortunately) turned out to be topical. Remote Job SitesAngelListAuthentic JobsFlexJobsHackerXIndeed.ca & Indeed.comLarajobs (Laravel job board)NODESKRemote4meRemote.coRemotiveWeWorkRemotelyWorking NomadsRemote Jobs in tech startupBrowse 1,000s of hand-picked remote startup jobs, updated daily. Remotive (est. 2014) helps tech professionals land remote jobs.

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Using Boxstarter and Chocolately for Repeatable Windows 10 Installations

Local development environments have come a long way on Windows machines over the past decade. We have the ease and use of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). You can get your favourite Linux distribution up and running fast with no need for VirtualBox or

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Separation of Concerns & User Experience

If you were a student of Computer Science, you have no doubt heard of ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability). ACID properties are amazing. They can ensure that bad transactions (failures, duplicates, etc.) never make it into your database, and that when something does fail,

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Why Choose a Design Degree?

Whenever I am asked this question, other professional designers display ire at my answer.

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Optimizing Raster Images for Web

A raster image is a grid of pixels. Each pixel contains colour and transparency information. Image compression is a type of data compression is a type of data compression that is applied to digital images. Compression helps make file sizes smaller for both storage

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