It seems slightly crazy to be talking about ‘the new mobile’. It seems like mobile only recently became the new mobile and I can’t even remember what it was before that. Such is the speed of change in this digital world of ours that simply by…
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…
Red Badger believes delivering an effective pitch to clients means showing them results, not talking about…
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…
As I mentioned briefly in my blog post discussing the launch of the Badger Academy, I went to a retreat back in January to take some thinking time away from work. I was cut off from the outside world. There was no internet. Mobile phones were not…
Back in January this year I went away for a 10 day retreat. The initial intention was to get away from work completely. No phone. No internet. No work. However, unexpectedly it ended up being incredibly conducive to coming up with a whole plethora…
This is the second part of our series on how to create an agile customer driven business