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Robert Rice

Robert Rice

Robert Rice is a software developer with 11+ years of experience with Java technologies. Long-time consultant working with the creation, enhancement, and maintenance of a complete insurance management system. Other interests include health, fitness, and winning the 2015 Keyhole Software Halloween Costume Contest.

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Fun With jQuery: Create A Puzzle

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Attention: The following article was published over 7 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across …

XML Manipulation With XML Copy Editor

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Attention: The following article was published over 8 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.The XML document format, created in 1996, is still widely used to facilitate communication between disparate systems (though for certain implementations is somewhat being replaced by JSON). As a Java developer, I …

A Few Thoughts About Method Implementation

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Attention: The following article was published over 9 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.In chapter 17 of “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin, the author describes the idea of “code smells,” practices in development that, while they don’t explicitly violate any standards (whether unwritten or …

What They Didn’t Teach Me In College

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Attention: The following article was published over 10 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.I attained my IT degree (B. S. in Computer Science) 12+ years ago at a traditional midwestern college, so the education was fairly well rounded. Looking back more than a decade later …