For whatever reason, I’ve been thinking about businesses-to-customer and business-to-business relationship. I came to the realization ultimately, even if two industries are not competing in the same market, they are still competing against each other. They simply might not have realized it yet. Am I saying that if you work in the restaurant business, you’re …
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HostGator vs DowntownHost (DTH) Review
For various reasons, I recently came across the need to evaluate existing hosts in the market. While I’m still hosted on DowntownHost (DTH), and I am still a proud patron of DTH. I initially signed up for unlimited bandwidth and disk space, and unfortunately, there has been a recent change in policy in that aspect. …
Increasing Youtube View Counts
It has become increasingly popular for artists to be ranked by their YouTube view counts. This article is written to help my readers best utilize their loyal fan-base. Understanding the System YouTube is no new kid on the block when it comes to “spammers”. They’ve had to combat a lot of “artificial views” brought on …
Reducing Learning Curve Overhead with OOP
A lot of people don’t understand why object-oriented programming (OOP) practices are getting so much hype. While I can’t explain all the benefits of using OOP in this article, I will cover one of the compelling cases of using OOP, you save time. Imagine a scenario where a new recruit has just joined your ranks. …
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Code Obsolescence
I believe that code-base no matter how well written are doomed to the fate of eventual obsolescence. No matter how well the code is constructed, there are bound to be unforeseen edge cases that can have a minor or major impact on your code. If your business decides to take the code to a whole different …
Cultural Value of Employees
After watching a few departures from my company, I have come to realize the cultural importance of employees. Each employee contributes in their own way to the company in terms of work ability and cultural value. When an employee works for a company, they’re working for the company because they believe in the company’s product …
Underlying System Flexibility of API Testing Systems
Your testing sandbox can be flexible or immutable. I have a preference for designing testing systems that are flexible. Data that is generated via the testing process, can be modified through the testing process. Everything flows the same as a live system from beginning to end. There are developers who would disagree with this approach, …
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City of Los Angeles Business Tax Online E-File
As of writing this article, the site for filing businesses taxes online at https://latax.lacity.org/laweb is broken. I’ve tested the site across 3 browsers, chrome, firefox, and IE, and none of them will pass the professional activity code validation check. I’m amazed that such a bug could’ve even passed a decent QA process. In fact, when …
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A Compelling Case For the Use of Objects
I think one of the hardest things about being a programmer is working with code that you’re not familiar with. You can spend hours, days, weeks, months, trying to understand the code that someone else wrote. I used to think that if a person who can’t read through my code and fully understand what my …
Introductory Documentation
Well written introductory documentation starts by first understanding the purpose. The purpose of the document is to get the reader to become acquainted with whatever you’re trying to introduce. Not only that, but one should keep in mind what they wish to accomplish by introducing the topic. This would help organize the overall direction of …