I traveled to the UK earlier this month and was greeted by an error screen a day for the first three days of my trip. Day 1: London Subway Station Nothing like a 5-foot-tall boot screen to make you feel at home in a foreign country. Day 2: Cardiff Train Station Found a Windows BSOD [...]

For today’s post we’re going to delve into one of the least talked about but extremely common tasks a software developer works with, input validation, or error checking as its more commonly referred to as. Input validation is defined as taking what a user enters on screen, verifying it meets certain requirements, and returning a [...]