Software Engineering – Page 5

Comparing Node.js and Python on the Raspberry PI

By chad August 25, 2014Key Concepts, Programming, Raspberry Pi, Software Engineering8 Comments

Programming on the Raspberry Pi Python seems to be the more popular language for writing programs on the Raspberry Pi. However, it is far from the only language: Python, C, C++, Java, and Ruby are some that are automatically supported out of the box. As it turns out Node.js is…

Everyone's A Coder

By chad August 24, 2014Software EngineeringNo Comments

Question: Are we headed to an era where everyone should know how to write at least some rudimentary code? Learn to Code Today, there are many sites on the internet offering to "teach you to code." Two of which are KhanAcademy and CodeAcademy. These sites offer a selection of…

Project Excelsior – Technology Update

By chad August 18, 2014Diversions, Programming, Software Engineering, TechnologyNo Comments

For the past month or so I've been working on a little side project that I've dubbed "Project Excelsior." I've not had an abundance of time to spend on it over the past few week, so I'm just now wringing out some of the technology stack. I've almost decided completely…

No Comments – A Failure Twice

By chad August 17, 2014Doing Things Better, Programming, Software Engineering, TipsNo Comments

Everyone that writes code has encountered or written their fair share of undocumented code. A failure twice? I was encouraged to write this article because of something I read about the pinball game that once was included with windows. According to the article on MSDN, the pinball game was removed…

Node.js vs Python vs PyPy – A Simple Performance Comparison

By chad August 2, 2014Programming, Software Engineering, Technology28 Comments

IMPORTANT NOTE: The NodeJS algorithm had a slight discrepancy in it. See this article for a correction to the performance comparison section of this article. The Algorithm Yesterday, I decided to try translate my algorithm for calculating N-Queens to JavaScript. I've implemented the same single-thread, brute force, recursive algorithm in…

Knowing When You've Wrote Crappy Code

By chad July 26, 2014Doing Things Better, Key Concepts, Programming, Software Engineering5 Comments

Note: This article was kicked off by one I read over at LosTechies. We write lots of code, statistically speaking some of it is what we'd deem as "crappy." If you're doing things right and progressing in your career and your understanding; your definition of "crappy code" should change over…

Isolate, Understand, Implement

By chad July 18, 2014Doing Things Better, Key Concepts, Programming, Software EngineeringNo Comments

Isolate, understand, implement: three very important things to remember when adding, modifying or replacing features on a project. The first step is to isolate the feature. Hopefully, your project is designed in such a way that once the code is isolated it is in a single place. The next step…

Generating JSON Documents From SQLite Databases In Python

By chad June 22, 2014Programming, Tips3 Comments

Special Note This article assumes that you do not wish to use a more sophisticated ORM tool such as SQLAlchemy. Some Setup Let's start with a Q&D sqlite database given the following sql. create table sample(column1 INTEGER, column2 TEXT, column3 TEXT, column4 REAL); insert into sample(column2, column2, column3, column4) values(1,…

First Impressions of Rust

By chad April 7, 2014Programming1 Comment

Today I finished my first program written in Rust 0.10. As with my article on Dart earlier this weekend I'm going to rely on Wikipedia for short intro for what Rust is. The goal of Rust is to be a good language for the creation of large client and server…

First Impressions of Dart

By chad April 5, 2014Programming1 Comment

Today I finished my first Dart tutorial. For those that don't know what Dart is, Wikipedia has a nice synopsis that I've included here. Dart is an open-source Webprogramming language developed by Google. It was unveiled at the GOTO conference in Aarhus, October 10–12, 2011.[4] The goal of Dart is…