Kevins Tech Blog

With the rapid proliferation of new technologies a common question I find myself asking is what to learn. Its not just that there are thousands of programming languages and even more thousands of libraries, extensions and frameworks but also that very often these tools and frameworks are used in different combinations with each other. Today… Continue reading To learn deep or to learn wide?

https://www.maxpixel.net/Rocket-Ship-Space-Shuttle-Spaceship-Launch-26556 The other day I updated my Linkedin for the first time in several months. After working professionally as software developer now for several months and gaining some new skills through my capstone project it was long overdue to add a few more lines to my professional profile. Almost like clockwork I started getting messages… Continue reading The Allure of Startups

We all know that working with a team brings many benefits to a project. Collaboration, new ideas, and conflict. Yes, as strange as it sounds conflict can be a benefit to a project. For one, conflict forces us to clearly articulate the benefit and thereby reconsider our current position. Conflict also can expose us to… Continue reading Healthy conflict

Javascript or Python? React or Angular? MongoDb or Postgres? AWS or Heroku? These were some of the questions we started wrestling with this week as we met our groups and kicked the start of our capstone project. Since our particular project did not have a specified tech stack we were given the freedom to decide… Continue reading Its all about the stack

This week we were assigned the task of selecting a project to work on for the rest of the term. We were given a link to a website that had a link to 20-30 different project ideas and instructed to select 5 submit as our preferred project. The instructor will then assign both the project… Continue reading Picking the project: To go new or to go deep?

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