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Week 6 was project week. I had to come up with my own idea and whilst I think its a valid one that isn't met by the market, expectation vs. reality was hard hitting this time. The idea was called R...

Weeks 4 and 5 consisted of Ruby and Ruby on Rails. It also was the introduction of OOP (Object Oriented Programming). This was initially a very obscure framework and programming language. There see...

Week 3 was our first project week. The task for each student was to develop their own tic-tac-toe game. It needed to have HTML, CSS and JS with jQuery. There was bonus points for developing a simpl...

Week 2 was all about HTML and CSS with a demonstrative amount of Javascript as well. The mantra was 'HTML is the content, CSS determines how it will look and Javascript controls its behaviour'. At ...

The first official week was all about vanilla Javascript featuring: loops, arrays, functions and objects. It was a steep climb, not only learning all of this but in the practice of immediately appl...

This was the start of my software engineering journey at General Assembly. The first day consisted of explaining what to expect and a rough account of the languages and frameworks that we would be ...

In addition to the article, I am currently balancing the job seeking phase whilst working on some passion projects. You can follow along here and on my Polywork account for progress. Balancing both...

The day of publishing was the year anniversary of quitting my previous job. As much as I wrote this book to help people go through change in the face of challenge, it helped me go through change. F...

Things were starting to look good. Although the book was half the size of its original form, it was solid. The pacing felt right, as did the imagers, which needed very slight tweaks. The feedback w...

Time for editing Around September, things were tough. Although I had written the majority of what I thought the book would be, with 4 topics, 315 pages, I felt that this was worth sharing with peop...

It all changed when I received my rejection letter about the writer role. I had written an article for them as part of the application phase and although I felt it was quite good, I had failed. I f...

After two days of almost non-stop writing, I felt I had a lot more to say. I was at approximately 7,000 words and the words kept coming. By days end it was 8,500 and I knew there was something ther...

This is the timeline for deciding to write a book On this day I got into the final round as a core writer and researcher with Peter Diamandis's company. Peter is one of my biggest career influences...

Currently researching for my next article. It's about the bias towards the recruiter and the hirer, rather than the candidate in the majority of recruitment software and online platforms. I want to...