Jekyll Embed Video Without Plugin

22 Jul 2017

Embed videos in Jekyll webpages without a plugin. If you are hosting your webpage using Github pages, you can’t use third party plugins. Here is a method to use ‘includes’ instead of plugins. This plugin works for both Youtube and...

Jekyll

Video

Embed Video in Github README.md

03 Jul 2017

Sometimes you may want to embed a youtube video into your repository’s README.md file. There are several methods such as using youtube’s auto-generated picture, a video screenshot, or an animated gif. Use youtube’s preview picture We can use youtube’s auto-generated...

Github

Video

Reset Changes Using Git

24 Jun 2017

Git is a version control system that can be extremely useful due to its ability to serve as a backup when something breaks. This concept is not new and has been applied to essentially every video game ever made. Analogous...

Software Engineering

Git

Magic

Mirror Git Repository With History

23 Jun 2017

Objective: Replicate state of an origin repository and mirror all history including branches to a new repository. Sometimes you may want to copy files from one repository to another and at the same time, preserve the history, branches, and all...

Software Engineering

Git

Magic

Privacy Breaches In Code

28 Apr 2017

Engineering ethics is the set of rules and guidelines that engineers adhere to as a moral obligation to their profession and to the world. When ethics are not followed, disaster often occurs which not only includes large monetary costs and...

Software Engineering

Privacy

Meteor Magic

17 Mar 2017

Application architectures serve as tools to enable streamlined, organized, and efficient platforms for developing web applications. One such framework is Meteor which is a modern, internet-based, client-server platform which allows developers to focus more on implementing features and designing user...

Software Engineering

Meteor

“Meteor Gotchas”

09 Mar 2017

Software developers usually encounter tasks ranging from firmware development to web development as there are many tools available to make application development more streamlined, efficient, and generally painless. Specifically, when designing web applications, there are two methods: coding from scratch...

Software Engineering

Meteor

Magic Works With Frameworks

23 Feb 2016

Although there is a learning curve associated with UI frameworks such as Bootstrap and Semantic UI, the initial time investment is worth it in the end. The gained ability to create professional, clean, and aesthetically pleasing webpages in significantly less...

Software Engineering

Semantic UI

Guidelines of Good Programming

06 Feb 2016

Although placement of white spaces and curly braces may seem insignificant, proper code formatting has helped me immensely by making my code more readable and organized. In addition, by having well-formatted code, it has had a significant impact on productivity...

ESLint

Coding Standards

Git Good At GitHub

28 Jan 2016

For software developers, version control systems and configuration management tools such as Git and GitHub are essential assets at all levels of software development. By having a secure repository to store code with the assurance of an incorruptible “master” version,...

Software Engineering

Learning

Version Control

Smart Questions

22 Jan 2016

Programming is never a secluded practice as there is always a link to the open source community, especially when we are stuck in a perplexed state. Luckily, we are not alone as others may have gone through the same problems...

Software Engineering

Learning

StackOverflow

Adventures with JavaScript

17 Jan 2016

In order to dive into the world of website design and web development, I realized I needed to pick up JavaScript. Although at the time, I had no experience with the JavaScript programming language. However, I had worked with various...

Software Engineering

Learning

JavaScript

A Programmer’s Dream

16 Jan 2016

In a sense, programmer’s block is similar to writer’s block where “A writer may run out of inspiration, or be distracted by other events”. In contrast to writer’s block, however, programmer’s block occurs when a developer or engineer has too...

Software Engineering

Learning

Goals