Software Engineer
Having conducted several graduate and junior developer mentoring experiences now, I thought I'd take a moment to review them, share my approach, and share the advice I've picked up along the way for anyone else who may be starting their journey as a ...
Building software is something I know well at this point, but I wanted to explore the modern necessities which accompany an application and enable it to be perceived and marketed as product, rather than just an application. In effect, forming a brand...
Having built up a design for the application, and mocked up the UI, it was time to write some code to bring those elements to life. Here's a brief high-level overview of this. https://github.com/cognophile/Worrybook Architecture As my first foray in...
Having recently migrated from a Linux/macOS based workplace to a Windows-based one, I found one thing to be lacking - a lightweight Git prompt for all that terminal-based Git goodness, in a terminal that supports tabs. Journey to the prompt Having ...
Last time , we covered the basics of the ever-popular distributed version control system, Git - enough to get started using it alone, locally. This time round, we’ll be looking into how we use Git to collaborate with others remotely and manage our re...
Version control isn't a new concept to most coders - heck, certainly not the industry. In general, it has long been the backbone of many aspects of development, engineering, and particularly now DevOps - and yet, fundamentally, the tools providing th...
You may know that in my previous post, I shared some prototype UI designs which highlighted the most essential features of the first version of the application and guided the development. This was a really useful exercise - firstly, I got intimately ...
This past year has been challenging, exhausting, trying, and every other negative-implying adjective you can think of, for everyone. But mostly, it's been relentlessly tough. A worldwide public health nightmare became reality, plunging countless othe...
Internships and Placements are invaluable for getting a foot in the door and advancing your knowledge and skillset in a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment. But the cherry on the cake is mentorship. In this post, I detail 8 things I learnt fr...
