Ramm Reflections

  • Thoughts on React Native and Expo

    I’m a mobile dev beginner so building a mobile app was always going to involve learning new skills. My team (also fledgling mobile developers) and I decided to build a cross platform mobile app for our project and we all have some React experience developing web apps, so using the ubiquitous React Native SDK was…

  • Project Progress: Part 1

    We have liftoff! We’ve got a fully fleshed out project plan with a flowchart, a wire framed UI model and database ERD, a weekly meeting schedule, and a GitHub repository full of code. This project almost seems like it’s going to build itself, all thanks to the completion of my least favorite step and one…

  • End/Beginning

    Is it happening? Is this state of limbo finally over? Am I REALLY about to finish this massive transition from self-employed professional trombone player in New Orleans, LA to full-time software developer in Madison, WI?!?!? From what I can tell, based on my limited understanding of the universe and the nature of my reality, the…