Mackenly Jones articles - 21 total
The Cumulative Advantage
In the early days of Google, a well-known test occurred dubbed Google's 41 Shade of Blue. This test...
Cool Tools for Google Tag Manager
In this post, I share a few tools I've been using lately for data analytics, tracking, and...
Functional vs. Dysfunctional Conflict in a Project
As developers, we often work on projects with teams of people. Believe it or not, people do not...
Cloudflare Magic Linker: Chrome Extension Project
Beginning as a personal project, over Christmas, I decided to create a Chrome extension to make...
Review of Uptime Kuma Self-hosted Status Monitoring Tool
Monitoring uptime statuses can be a complicated task, and SaaS services typically target enterprise...
Hacktoberfest 2023 👕
Intro Hi, my name is Mackenly and this was my fourth year participating in Hacktoberfest....
The Ethics of Hourly Billing
One of the most obvious but often overlooked ethical conflicts within the workplace is workers who...
How to add users to a Cloudflare account
A break from this site's usual higher-level tech posts, this post walks through the process of adding...
Design Systems
What are design systems? According to UX research firm Neilson Norman, "A design system is...
Social Engineering
What is social engineering? Social engineering is one of the oldest forms of malicious or unethical...
The Wayback Machine
In an ever-evolving digital world, websites come and go, often taking valuable information with them....
Choosing the Right Java Data Types
There are several reasons for Java having different data types. Java has eight primitive data...
Object-Oriented Programming vs. Procedural Languages
Object-oriented and procedural are two common programming language paradigms. Procedural...
Java "new" Keyword and Constructors
The "new" keyword is used to allocate memory and instantiate a reference data type. Primitive data...
Storing Money in Java (and other languages)
I was reading a book about Java and it had this practice question at the end of a chapter: If...
Java Loop Boolean Expressions
Boolean expressions are used to represent conditions required for all loops. It may not be obvious...
Why are there other loops if all loops can be implemented using a while loop in Java?
Java, like most programming languages, provides different types of loops. The most common are...
Algorithms vs. Cake Mixes
Cooking is a great source of example algorithms and serves as a great stand-in for learning how to...
Java Decision Structure Basics
Decision structures are sometimes known as control structures. These keywords control the flow of...
Java ArrayLists: Capacity vs Size
Java's ArrayLists are like smart arrays. You can't change an array's length, but with an ArrayList,...
Is storing elements with different data types in the same array possible with Java?
Kinda. As you can see, if I try to store a floating point number in this int array, my IDE screams...