GETTING SWIFT-Y
Hey all! First, I'm going to preface this post by saying thank you to everyone who has supported me so far, or read my posts -- I won the...
TO INFINITY, AND BEYOND
As I sit in my comfy desk chair, the one which I've basically been glued to for the past 16 weeks or so, it has suddenly become...
TODAY, WE GRADUATE.
We just had our last official morning standup. To say it was bittersweet would be an understatement. For the first time in a while, I...
THE WOES OF A MAGIKARP
You learn a lot about yourself when you're a Makers student. How can you not, when you spend between 9 and 15 hours a day (including...
IT'S A MAKERTHON, NOT A SPRINT.
Hello readers, it's been a while since my last confession, err I mean post. Everything has been ridiculously hectic lately. I can't...
AND NOW WE "REST"
This morning during standup, our coach asked if anyone had ideas about how Rails encourages the building of RESTful applications, and I...
AJAX (more than a football team from Amsterdam?)
AJAX, as we have discovered today, stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. What in the bloody hell? So since then, I've gone around...
JAVASCRIPT IS A BRO AT HEART ("Bro, do you even hoist?")
Even though it was designed in 10 days by Brendan Eich (we imagine in the depths of his basement), JavaScript is really a bro at heart....
IT'S JAVASCRIPT, NOT JAVA
So apparently, if you say "Java" when you really mean "Javascript" people will instantaneously know you're a noob. Fortunately, I...
WEEK 4 DATABASES AND DRAMA
Hello, world! You might not believe me when I say this, but it is so much more complex than I would have thought to get those simple...
