Pivot

Two and half weeks after graduating from Makers Academy I was offered a full time job as a software engineer at Pivotal Labs. As I prepare for my first day at work tomorrow, I took some time to think back …

Three months ago I couldn’t imagine building websites…

Twitter, Instagram, and Yelp all have hundreds of millions of users. Chitter, Captioner, and Dish don’t have any users at all. But I sometimes find them more interesting to use than the former three. I wouldn’t tell you to check …

Meet Team Pinch

In my post about my Makers Academy graduation, I mentioned how my team had produced a short silent film and a screencast for our presentation. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Team Pinch:

MA Graduate

I remember coming to the end of my first week at Makers Academy and thinking that I still had such a long way to go. Since then, each week has passed by more quickly than the previous one, as I’ve …

Penultimate

This last week was very different to all of the previous ones. The structured teaching phase is  over at Makers Academy. Now we are in the final project phase. As I write this post, I can’t believe that there are …

Talks Night II – Silent cinema, motivational speakers, and ecomba’s accidents™

You might remember me writing about a talks night that we had at Makers Academy at the beginning of last month. It was so good that Enrique realised that we would all be missing out if he didn’t make these a regular …

API – Awesome, Powerful, Interesting

Week 10 at Makers Academy – our last week of structured teaching, before we go into doing our final projects. Alex had some good news for us – as a cohort we were ahead of schedule and so we could …

Which dish would you like?

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 …

Building a billion dollar app

Earlier this week, Natalie and I had a chat with Rob and Enrique about when the low points of positivity tended to be for students at Makers Academy. Week 8 and 9, they told us. This was funny for me, …

Magic Rails, Magic Week

For any person learning to code, your first experience with Rails makes you wonder whether there really is some real magic involved in coding. Rails is an open source web application framework which is written in Ruby and used to develop …