Long before I started coding, Microsoft implemented Interfaces into the .Net framework. This was a significant improvement for object oriented programming, improving on the core principles of inheritance and abstraction while overcoming large obstacles. Inheritance and abstraction are 2 of the 4 principle pillars of object oriented programming (OOP). The 4 pillars of object oriented…
I have spent the better part of the last hour trying and testing methods for handling the many inconsistent formats of date and times received from the my Gmail vault API. I finally have a single solution to share with you. The various forms of datetime from Google Before I go into my solution, which…
There are times when we need to kickoff another console application within our program. Recently, I found I needed to kickoff a few little jobs on a remote server. I considered putting them on a scheduler but that didn’t make sense. The programs I am dealing with are needed once or twice a month and…
Like most of Google’s services, Gmail comes with bountiful APIs to help us build out software for meeting our growing demands. To learn the full details of the Gmail API, check out the very informative guide to Google’s Gmail API here. For this tutorial we are not going to focus on getting your service account,…
This is how I got really good at JavaScript… About 5 years ago I started learning to code. At the time I didn’t know what I wanted to code. I just knew I wanted to be a programmer, sick of the daily political non-sense of the finance industry. I happened to receive an Arduino as…
Angular 5 is the newest release of the Angular Framework. In this article, we will be looking at how to build a simple service using the angular command line interface, or CLI. In the Angular ecosystem, services refer to the piece that is commonly used for storing data and making HTTP calls. We will not…
Ionic is an open source framework for building websites and mobile apps in one. With Ionic it is possible to code once and deploy to all. Go is the best language I have ever used. Go compares to C++ in speed and Java in readability. Go is cleaner, more precise, builds in seconds, seems to excel…
Today I am going to show you how to make the simplest Go web server. This particular instance will only return a string of text. I don’t think you can really get more basic than that. Purpose This article is meant to introduce you to the Go language and useful Go libraries. Prerequisites You will…
Let’s Make Your First Go Application “Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.” – Go Team Getting Our Environment Setup Choosing the right IDE I would highly recommend Visual Studio Code (VSCode). This IDE is powerful, fast, offers an infinite sea of plugins and…
In JavaScript, we have three ways of describing or using functions. 1. Constructors Constructors are used to set up a class with a base set of properties, values, methods, or dependencies. In this simple example for a class Greeting, the constructor is being used to provide an initial value for the variable ‘name’ and takes…
