When I was looking for my first software development job, I kept hearing the same thing: “you don’t have enough commercial experience for this role”… I kept persisting and eventually I got a job at a startup, where I worked for two years. When I decided to go freelance I was surprised that, after having […]
VIDEO DEMO I first started learning how to code at age 12 when I taught myself how to make basic Windows batch scripts. It wasn’t long after that when the easy-to-use GUI drawing feature of Visual Basic 6 had me hooked on programming for good. I graduated onto making proper network connected applications shortly thereafter. I was […]
How can you be a more productive developer? That’s the million dollar question. As a professional developer, one of the most difficult challenges you are faced with is being able to stay focused on tedious lines of code for hours at a time. Whether you’re programming professionally or just fun, you probably have goals you […]
Are you currently looking for a software developer job in London? The scene is booming at the moment, but I still encounter people who have trouble when looking for new roles. So I thought it worthwhile to pass on some of the things I’ve learned whilst navigating this exciting job market. Whether you’re looking to move from […]
Now for the third and final part of this three part tutorial: How to build an app. If you missed out on the first two instalments, you can read part one here, and part two here. For our third part, I will explain how to build the app using the Ionic framework.
Welcome to part 2 of 3 of my How to Build an App tutorial. In the first part, I explained how to create the back-end server which we will use to host our app’s back-end (if you didn’t get a chance to read it, you can check it out here). In this second part, I […]
Using Windows? Click here to view the Windows version of this walk-through. After my previous post, Android Development for Beginners: 6 Steps to Building Your First App, I received some requests asking me to explain in more detail how to build an app, step-by-step. If you have any experience buildings apps you will know that it can […]
Using a Mac? Click here to view the Mac OS X version of this walk-through. After my previous post, Android Development for Beginners: 6 Steps to Building Your First App, I received some requests asking me to explain in more detail how to build an app, step-by-step. If you have any experience buildings apps you will know […]
I frequently use Ubuntu or Debian to run my applications. Here is my cheat sheet of how to perform commonly required tasks on these Linux distributions.
If you’ve ever used Git in windows, you may have seen something like this every time you add files to Git: If you want to turn it off, type this: Done.