I recently read an article about CodeEval, a free gamified website for ranking developers, and bringing employers and developers together. Essentially, a developer can sign up, complete coding challenges, and earn badges and a “Hacker Ranking” that will compare his or her skills to others who have signed up on the site. Also, completing some … Read more
It’s a new year, and a new opportunity to update skill sets! So far, my poll indicates that the most popular technologies for the upcoming year (at least for those who answered the poll) will be jQuery and Python. Given the increased number of articles and blog posts about jQuery and also Python’s use in … Read more
One of the hardest things for me to find coherent information on has been how to set up spell checking for multi-line TextBoxes on ASP.NET forms. In my search, I came across Hunspell, an open source spell checker that is widely used in applications such as OpenOffice. To set up Hunspell for use in your … Read more