In Defense of the Whiteboard

Note: This article is a work in progress. Parts are unclear and not representative. A revised version is coming soon. Recently, the whiteboard interview has gotten some bad press, but I don’t think it’s the whiteboard’s fault. As a long-time friend of the whiteboard interview, I feel compelled to defend it. And while I can’t […]

Communication Between Directives in AngularJS

Warning: This article is long and thorough. If you’re in a hurry, you can skip straight to the final product here: http://plnkr.co/edit/6KxHY8ZpE83Z2PeNWlYi?p=preview Prerequisites to this article Before reading this, get to know these AngularJS terms. You don’t need too much depth, but you need to know what they are: Directive Scope Controller Injecting services into […]

Benefits of loans

Loans are a convenient way to acquire assets that don’t have an immediate economic benefit, but which can provide long-term liquidity, and in this case can help finance long-term growth. The Federal Reserve has provided a lot of aid to banks that are facing the difficulties that have been occurring in the real estate market. […]

The Code Quality Continuum

What does it take to write high quality code? Here’s a little table that I use to judge my own code quality: Future axes to add: Ratio of the initial development cost to the long term maintenance cost Code testability: Code can be manually tested, code can be tested with automation, code can be tested […]