Developers on all sides of the coding table run into walls on a rather regular basis, particularly entry-level developers. We tend to frequently need help but because the workloads never cease, we have to very quickly learn how to handle our problems alone. Of course, that’s not to say that 100% of issues should be…
MySQL statements can be complicated, and writing them can sometimes be quite tedious. Today I want to talk about a simple technique to help improve readability and cut down modifications for MySQL statements in PHP, such as, INSERT and UPDATE. This method requires some knowledge of PHP and MySQL. We will be using an array of data…
From small town Russia to small town Georgia (the state, not the country), our backend web developer Gene has had quite the life journey, picking up a multitude of useful skills along the way. He moved from Yoshkar-Ola, Russia to the states when he was 13, residing in Thomaston, GA ever since. Directed to us from Gordon…
Update 2016/11/13: The git repository that goes along this article has been updated for the latest post-release version of Angular, which is 2.1.1. The original article used 2.0.0-rc1, and that version can be found at the corresponding tag. AngularJS is a popular javascript framework that can help to mitigate complexity on the front-end of your…
Jesse Smith. Full-stack developer. Cross-dimensional watcher. Creator of cardboard armies. A little over 3 years ago, this budding CS student had the misfortune of having a certain Mr. Garrett Massey as his instructor for a few classes. After displaying an almost natural gift for the art of web development, Garrett decided to take this little duckling…
As developers we’ve all been there, banging our head on the table thinking, “Why is this not working?”, staring deeply into our code asking why. Knowing that we’ve gone through the right process to make this work, and for whatever reason, it’s not. Occasionally, there may be something strange going on to cause this, however,…
In his four years of experience as a frontend developer, service manager, and online security viking for Eyesore, Zach Dodd (hereby referred to as Zohgg, as well) has gathered mountains of knowledge that the merest of mortals can only dream of. The man, the myth, the legend, Zohgg. In all seriousness, Zohgg has developed and maintained a few…
When we talk to our clients, often times we’ll throw out the terms “frontend” or “backend” and they don’t know what the heck we’re talking about. We use this office jargon daily and almost forget that it’s nerd-talk and not normal-people-talk. So we thought, wouldn’t it be a great idea to explain a little on the situation?…
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of speaking with any of us at Eyesore, Inc and asked us some complicated questions, you may have heard this one from us, “Let me talk to Trey about that”. Trey is our most senior developer and server guy, making him the one we run to with all of…