As a full-time student in Flatiron School’s Software Engineering Program, I was required to create an app that makes full use of a Ruby on Rails backend. At my last job, I co-led the continued development of proprietary reservation and booking software using Ruby on Rails. …

Yesterday I finished my first full stack app as part of Flatiron School’s Software Engineering Program. In this phase, we learned about Ruby and SQL. Like my previous projects, I wanted to make something that is simple and fun to use. …

I just finished Phase 2 of Flatiron School’s software engineering program. In this phase, we learned React with a chapter on client-side routing and a lesson on hooks (which was awesome). After wracking my brain for a week or so trying to come up with an app to showcase my…

Today marks the end of my first ‘project week’ in Flatiron School’s full time software engineering program. Over the last seven days, my cohort and I created our first web apps to show off our nascent front-end development skills and begin building portfolios. A major component of this project was…

About 12 years ago, I took a year-long online marketing course. In the years since, I’ve used that knowledge to help many small businesses set up their blog, providing SEO and industry-specific best practices. However, I never actually wrote a blog myself. …