This week Joe introduced us to the concept of Agile Retrospectives. This is an opportunity to look back at the project so far and review how everything is going. What do we want to start doing? Continue doing more of? Stop doing?…
Badger Academy endeavours have slowed down slightly, managing my last year of university and working part-time is a becoming a sizeable challenge. Much more so to come once I arrive in the real world!
Last weekend Product Hunt decided to host a global hackathon opening up their API to the community for consumption. Budding developers got together over at YCombinator on-site for a two day hackathon to come up with and deliver a new product idea.…
Red Badger in collaboration with Haller and Pearlfisher designed and built a web based app for the charity Haller. Our primary users for this app are Kenyan based, rural farmers who live a life far removed from the abundance of our comfortable…
In any kind of tech development, knowledge is power. When working on an ecommerce site, knowledge is essential.
Over the past few weeks on Badger Time, we've had a steady workflow for the API where we followed TDD principles of writing feature tests first and code later. It wasn't an issue to set that up in Rails as the various gems already out there for Ruby…
It's week 7 at Badger Academy, and it feels like things are really starting to come together. As the codebase begins to take shape, and more of the blanks are being filled in, I'm finding it easier to contribute as there are now more examples for me…
It’s week 4 of Badger Academy, but for me personally as the 3rd intern to join, it’s the first week. Not only am I a few weeks behind on the Badger Time project, but fresh from the 3 month Web Development Immersive course at General Assembly, I’m…
The third week of Badger Academy has passed, and with it ends the first cycle of seniors helping interns. For this thursday we were paired with Joe Stanton. We ran into a lot of problems during the week, which left us somewhat frustrated but also…
This week in Badger Academy, we were joined by Alexander Savin, a senior engineer of many talents. Under his guidance, he assessed the current state of our DevOps including the decision to use docker. Finalising last week's architecture choices, we…
Last Wednesday marked the beginning of Red Badger's intern training program - Badger Academy. As interns, Eric and I will be the 'prototypes' with a dynamic syllabus covering the fundamentals.
Don’t completely rely on your grades to get you a job after uni. A CS degree will prove you're intelligent and understand the theory, but that will only take you so far during an interview. We have to talk about apps we've built with potential…
When starting Responsive web development, making sure that a website works on the growing number of phones, tablets and phablets out there feels like a daunting task. The granularity of screen sizes is as such that even just getting a solid core of…
When developing a web app of any sort, usually you have a local server on your local machine. The server is running your app, which you can access using your favourite browser. Later on, when the moment is right, the app is deployed to a public…