ZEIT ONLINE (ZON) has been relaunched a week ago. Over at zeit.de you will find a beautiful news site – no matter if you are browsing on your phone, tablet or desktop. A responsive news site relying on ad revenue is technically interesting. But there are journalistic innovations as well, that I have been longing… ZEIT ONLINE has been relaunched weiterlesen
Build passed: Graduated from Makers Academy
Some photos I have taken over the past six weeks at the Academy and around the corner… I have had a soundtrack as well.
Time to have Dinnr
I’m in my last of 12 weeks Makers Academy. It’s hard to believe and at the same time I’m okay with it. Maybe I’m spoiled by our smooth and rewarding final project but I feel ready for the market. I want to build apps that are actually used. But before I tell you about my plans… Time to have Dinnr weiterlesen
Ready for the finals
Today I’m going to start my final project at Makers Academy. Kate Beavis, Chris Ward and Sean Haughton and I will build a social network for people who like to cook together. My friend Patrick Abele came up with the idea some time ago and responded to my call for pitches two weeks ago. There have been several… Ready for the finals weiterlesen
Pitch uns dein Projekt und gewinne 450 Webentwickler-Stunden gratis
Ich werde mit vier weiteren Makers-Academy-Studenten zwei Wochen lang alles geben, um ein überzeugendes Abschlussprojekt zu programmieren. Aktuelle Technik: Ob Angular, Node, Backbone oder Rails – wir wählen das beste Tool für den Job. Test driven: Wir liefern keinen Code aus, der nicht durch und durch getestet ist. Wir legen Wert auf sauberen, objektorientierten und gut lesbaren… Pitch uns dein Projekt und gewinne 450 Webentwickler-Stunden gratis weiterlesen
Clandestine chat, personal calendar and spotify-magic
I am a senior now. I guess the next six weeks will be the only time within the upcoming years in which I will be considered to be a senior web developer. But it’s true. The „old“ seniors have finished their course, a funny bunch of new juniors has just finished the Marshmallow-Spaghetti-Challenge and my… Clandestine chat, personal calendar and spotify-magic weiterlesen
Week5: JavaScript and APIs
A bit more than five weeks ago I tried to read a programming book. It was recommended as one of the best books to learn Ruby with. I had a feeling that „The Well Grounded Rubyist“ was a really good book. But I didn’t understand it. The author David A. Black writes about hashes, arrays, variables and… Week5: JavaScript and APIs weiterlesen
Welcome to Chitter
True. It’s not the most user-friendly web app ever made. And it’s not particularly beautiful either, but I am very happy to present you… the new Twitter: „Chitter“. Chitter was last weekend’s challenge. You can read messages in a public stream, you can sign up to write messages yourself. That’s what we call the Skateboard at… Welcome to Chitter weiterlesen
An entrepreneur enabling startup: The story of Makers Academy
There is more to a startup than a brick-walled office space, bean bags and a ping pong table. A startup needs a product and a story. Last week Evgeny Shadchev, CEO and co-founder of Makers Academy, told us how much pain it was, to find the beautiful office in which I’ve been learning how to code… An entrepreneur enabling startup: The story of Makers Academy weiterlesen
The Kindergarten-state-of-mind
„Don’t worry about feeling stupid.“ They keep telling you this at Makers Academy. „You will get used to not knowing how things work,“ is another piece of advice I have heard several times. But I do worry that I’m too stupid to get my head around this. I thought I knew how to make my… The Kindergarten-state-of-mind weiterlesen
RSpec: How to stub a random variable (make the weather as you need it to be)
In our last challenge there was an airport that gave or declined landing permission for planes based on the weather. There was no real weather forecast, I just generated a random weather: def generate_weather [:sunny, :sunny, :sunny, :stormy].shuffle.first end The Ruby-method .shuffle randomly mixes the values within the array and .first than takes the first value… RSpec: How to stub a random variable (make the weather as you need it to be) weiterlesen
Syntactic sugar, cold rooms – I’m getting used to it (week 1/12)
My first week at Makers is over. And if I keep learning new things at that pace I might actually be a Maker in the end. We have started with Test-driven development and the attempt to program a bike rental service. Yesterday I was sitting in a cafe in Kentish Town writing code for this weekend’s challenge.… Syntactic sugar, cold rooms – I’m getting used to it (week 1/12) weiterlesen
TDD – My first major obstacle
For someone like me, new to development, it sounds really strange to write a test before having a function or product ready. But anybody at Makers Academy is a 100% convinced that the so called technique of “Test Driven Development” (TDD) is absolutely essential for writing good, maintainable code. What it is and how it… TDD – My first major obstacle weiterlesen
Why we came…
„You have paid a whole lot of money, firstly to learn how to learn, and secondly, to learn how to code“ – Ruben Kostucki (@rubenkostucki), placement officer at Makers Academy. After his and some other introducing talks, we started with what I came for: coding. I am sure that learning how to code will be hard.… Why we came… weiterlesen
Solid foundation: Spaghetti-Marshmallow-Challenge
Let’s go!
It’s 8.15 am. Within 15 minutes I will start a 12-week-programming-bootcamp at Makers Academy in London. I’ve come quite a long way. I’ve resigned from my job as an editor for Oberhessische Presse. I’ve left my dear colleagues and my beloved flat in Marburg. But I’m sure it’s worth it. Within the upcoming eight month… Let’s go! weiterlesen