I started this blog as I was about to embark on the Makers Academy course in September 2013. I had recently graduated from university and had diverted from a career in banking. I was doing something totally unexpected but which … Continue reading
A few weeks ago, I received this message from a friend: “I see you have put the idea of being an entrepreneur on the back burner to become a coder…” ..and from some conversations with a few other people I … Continue reading
This weekend we were back to long tests. The task was to create a Rails app, similar to Yelp, which listed restaurants and reviews. I wanted to give the challenge a little twist given an app idea I’d had earlier … Continue reading
Another challenging week over! Not only have we had to rely on all of the knowledge that we’ve built up over the last five weeks in order to deploy a Sudoku app online, we’ve been exposed to a wealth of … Continue reading
The team at Makers have begun a tradition of ‘fireside chats’, where they speak on topics outside of purely technical material that might be important to us as future web developers. This all takes place by the fireside, or rather, … Continue reading
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of speaking at an event called ‘Demystifying Opportunities in Tech’, alongside Alice Bentinck, Co-Founder of Entrepreneur First, and Chloe Donegan, Co-Founder of Weave. The aim of the event was to get more women interested … Continue reading
