Launching a career in Software Development can often feel alienating. As a recent Bootcamp graduate with no prior history in tech, I personally understand the whole experience can feel like a leap of faith into the great unknown. While strengthening your ability to compose cold outreach emails and personalize cover…

Last week I was approved for graduation from the Flatiron School Software Engineering Program by my cohort lead. Coming off the high of completing the program, I decided that I would hit the ground running and immediately commit myself to my Career Prep work. The Career Prep program was made…

I wanted to preface this post by sharing something that I learned about myself recently that I always knew to be true; I have always had a knack for teaching. I spent a year as an English teacher in my native country of Honduras as part of a community initiative…

In my previous post, I took you on a crash course into Active Record Validations. I explained its importance in regard to MVC development, and how to properly set up and implement your own validations. …

While building MVC applications with Ruby on Rails, you may have heard of or even worked with ActiveRecord Validations. For those of you that haven’t, you can read more about them and their application when building a back-end here. Why are Validations Important to Development? Validations are a useful tool for developers because it allows us…

When developing a React/Rails application, it is important to always consider the perspective of the users who will be using your app, as well as the developers who will be working on the app. Let’s say you are creating an application and you’ve got your entire app planned out as…

Yes, actually. The end of phase 3 of the Flatiron School Software Engineering course marks the end of the most challenging chapter that I have experienced thus far (with two phases left until graduation, my fingers are crossed). As I sit here and write my project blog post and reminisce…

I’ve had a great time learning how to create and build applications in React, but as exciting as it was to watch my App render the correct information in the browser for the first time, it came with its share of challenges. Being introduced to React came with so many…

I wanted to write a blog post about the personal journey involved with learning a new (programming) language with zero prior knowledge about the subject, but I feel like I could probably accomplish that by writing about my application and explaining what I’m most proud of about the Javascript. I…