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You might have heard this metaphor before in some form: “Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants.” It means that a person making something new can benefit from work that already exists, leveraging and understanding the labor of people who have done it before them. I found out that this saying is old, almost a thousand years old—Isaac Newton popularized it. So when I hear clients say they don’t want to use open platforms because of reasons such as: They’re inferior to paid software They’re insecure because they’re open There’s no good support for these products I often wonder why they can’t see the seemingly apparent reasons for using open platforms.

When it comes to expanding per-project revenue, service businesses are at an immediate disadvantage. As our “product” is essentially our time, increasing income on a per-project basis almost always comes with extra work and an increased time commitment. Office hours increase, personal time slips away, and before we know it, the “extra” $300 weekly income has turned into little more than lost time.

MooTools is one of the most flexible, modular, and well written JavaScript frameworks available.

Each year, the battle for television ratings begins. Networks unveil their latest creations, jockeying for position in the ratings race, doing everything and anything within their means to gain and keep as many viewers as possible.

QUnit , developed by the jQuery team, is a great framework for unit testing your JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce what QUnit specifically is, and why you should care about rigorously testing your code

Picking up where Lesson two left off, this new installment of ASP.NET From Scratch covers more C# programming fundamentals – namely class inheritance and interfaces. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use inheritance to save time and code. You’ll also learn about the concept of interfaces, and how they can make your applications and [...]

A project is always more fun when you’ve got friends working with you, but how can do it when working on a coding project? I’ll keep my keyboard to myself, thanks. Enter GitHub