This weekend, I participated in my first mass coding event ever. Even though I’ve been coding since middle school, I’d never gone to an event purely focused on coding and web design. The event was Seattle GiveCamp, held at the beautiful Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. Over Friday night and into the weekend, GiveCamp volunteers helped over 20 non-profit organizations …
Let’s say your mouse fails all of a sudden and the nearest batteries are at a convenience store a mile from your house. Well now you’re screwed right? No, if you know some handy keyboard shortcuts. Most applications like your web browser will have a menu bar of some sort. It may not be a bar so to speak, but …
Use the Command Prompt a lot? You don’t have to settle for Light-grey on black. In fact, you can color up your Command Prompt screen, like this! Or how about this? Fortunately this is very easy to do. In fact, there are two ways of doing so.
This article originally appeard on Mahdi Yusuf’s blog. It was originally titled Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes. 7th September, 2011 I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. …
Even though the telephone is slowly succumbing to the forces of email, texting, and Instagram, calling still has its uses. Customer support is one of those major uses, and it comes with a lot of time spent waiting for a prompter to recite the menu. “For billing information, press 1. To see your current balance, press 2. For more options, …