Eddie PrislacinThe SitRepWhy does ‘5’ + 0 equal 50?Common JS noob mistakes with type coercion, and how to avoid themJun 8, 2019Jun 8, 2019
Eddie PrislacinThe SitRepAdaptive Best PracticesDogmatic adherence to a certain way of thinking may not be in your best interests…Mar 14, 2019Mar 14, 2019
Eddie PrislacinThe SitRepA career without a mentor, and why I wish I’d had one.Why be a mentor? Alternatively, why do you need one? I didn’t have one, and here’s how it went for me…Mar 6, 20191Mar 6, 20191
Eddie PrislacinQuick CodeHow to Skin a Cat: FizzBuzz in Five LanguagesRead this article, or the cat gets it.Feb 22, 20197Feb 22, 20197
Eddie PrislacinThe SitRepNeatness counts: A beginner’s guide to why style matters in programmingConfused as to why code-style matters? Here’s a beginner’s primer to clue you in…Feb 15, 2019Feb 15, 2019
Eddie PrislacinThe SitRepKeep calm and BOHICA: Military acronyms applied to software developmentFNG, SNAFU, SOP and more, demystified for POGs and given context within a software development project.Feb 6, 2019Feb 6, 2019
Eddie PrislacinThe SitRepMercy Is For The Weak: A guide to proper peer reviewsEveryone hates to be criticized; this is human nature, and it goes double for developers. It takes a long time to gather the skill-sets…Jan 30, 2019Jan 30, 2019
Eddie PrislacinThe SitRepGit Branching for beginnersIf you’ve never dealt with a version control system before, the concept of branching may be entirely foreign to you. In Git, you start off…Jan 28, 2019Jan 28, 2019
Eddie PrislacinThe SitRepNot Just for Neck-Beards, or How I learned to stop worrying and love the terminalA highly condensed version of my own career history, illustrating how I came to work almost exclusively in the terminal window.Jan 25, 20191Jan 25, 20191
Eddie PrislacinThe SitRepGithub Templates to make your life easierWhen Github started doing templates, I’d just started pushing to get some sanity and consistency for our Peer Review process at work, so…Jan 24, 2019Jan 24, 2019