An intro to APIs – why do people keep talking about APIs?

Introduction In the past years, it seems like more and more people have been talking about APIs and yet a lot of  people don’t seem to really know what an API is.  An API in short is defined as an Application Programming Interface, doesn’t sound so special does it?   Well to a developer it’s [...more]

Hardcoding and Spreadsheets – the perfect analogy for business folk

Ever since I’ve been developing software, I have found that explaining what programmers do to non technical people has been as challenging as developing itself.  You may ask why this is even important?  Well, there are many reasons actually.  Here are a few I can think of: They will understand Why the time estimate is [...more]

Welcome to my new blog

Welcome visitors, today is the launch of my new personal blog! I have been meaning for quite some time to update my wordpress blog to reflect my experience and to work with the latest wordpress 3.0. The timing of wordpress 3.0 couldn’t have been better as I finished this site design right when wordpress 3 [...more]