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Ten IT Concepts That Non-IT People Don’t Get

Often IT workers get the same question over and over again. This is a somewhat humourous and serious look at the top ten concepts that non-IT people often get confused with. Read More…

Pros and Cons of Flash-based Sites

Some few years ago flash sites were the greatest thing since sliced bread, since then we’ve smartened up and found weaknesses with this next big thing, but the importance of Flash on websites still remains strong. this list looks at some pros and cons of flash based web sites. Read More…

9 Ways to Make Your Writing More Compelling

As a newer blog writer, I found this list compelling and helpful in regards to making me a better writer. Can you tell the improvement? Probably not. Read More…

10 code snippets to interact with Twitter

Twitter is an interesting and annoying tool. I have a different site set to automatically post a “tweet” when new content comes in, which I think is really cool as another avenue to promote my site. However I do find I get a lot of spammer accounts signing up to follow my account so, is it really worth it? Nonetheless, here are some cool snippets to help you interact with the Twitter API. Read More…

CSS techniques web developer should use

Web Developers should always be looking at improving their CSS skills, especially with the coming of CSS3. What doesn’t kill you makes you a stronger developer, right? Read more…

That’s it for the weekly link roundup this week!

To keep this site relevant with its web address, I’d like to discuss some questions that we as developers should/could ask prospective employers during the interview process. While doing research on the company through means of Search Engines and the company website, one often can struggle to come up with questions for employers. A company website isn’t always a full indicator of the type of company you might work for and as a developer sometimes there are other things on our minds and we should consider asking them, to make sure the job is a fit for our comfort zone. Read more »

OOP is a style of programming that allows you to define or manipulate your data as objects with attributes and methods applied to those objects. These objects can include features such as polymorphism, inheritance, encapsulation, modularity and more. If you’ve never used object-oriented-programming(oop), this post does assume some knowledge of OOP methodologies, hopefully you can follow along.

Object-Oriented JavaScript is an interesting topic, since Javascript can be easily written and run in procedural form. OOP is intended to help maintain software quality and making use of reusable attributes and methods. JavaScript isn’t really an Object-Oriented language by default, but it is object based so we can utilize enough of the concepts to make our scripts work.
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