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2014 - Reflections

By all measurable impact, 2014 was a great year for me. At the end of 2013, I was unemployed after being laid off from work, a job that I was not passionate about and I honestly did not know what the future held for me.

One of the best decision I ever made was to go to my high school’s 5-year reunion and meet other incredible young people who encourage me in my decision to pursue a career in tech…

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Unemployment, Working at a startup, Meteor.JS

#startuplife #siliconalley

So I was unemployed for 2 months and for most of that time I was going in a listless direction as I did not follow my own advise and do the four things that I was asked to do. Fortunately for me, after I got my act together in the last couple of weeks, I got a job offer and now I am doing this contract-to-hire position as a Software Engineer at Invibox.

I’ve had a hard…

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#JavaScript #meteorjs #nodejs #Startup #unemployment

CASE, first technical interview

So it’s been 2 weeks since the end of Fullstack and the last two weeks have been a flurry of activity. Right after I posted a status on Facebook that I am looking for a web development job, I’ve had more leads on jobs that I can count and it’s been a struggle just to follow all leads and also keep in focus how to improve as a programmer as well.

Therefore, I’ve come up with a method that’s given…

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#CASE #Interview #Jobhunt #todolists

Idiot's check for Debugging

Idiot's Check for debugging

So many times developers run into errors and bugs and more often than not, the bugs we run into are not necessarily conceptual or wrong implementation of a certain code. More or less, they involve what I would call pretty dumb mistakes. With practice, everyone gets better at these problems but I decided it would be cool to have a checklist for these types of things.

Without further ado, here’s…

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My experience at Fullstack Academy of Code

I’ve gotten quite a few e-mails about my experience at Fullstack and or bootcamp setting in general, so I thought I would just provide the answers to some of the most important questions in this post. Keep in mind, this is my experience and it was and can be very different from yours. But for many people attracted to the concept of a programming bootcamp, this post might give you some valuable…

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#FullStack Academy #My Experience

Fullstack Academy ended today but the learning continues. Come to think of it, the amount of things…

Fullstack Academy ended today but the learning continues.

Come to think of it, the amount of things that happened in the last week has been mind blowing.

Since last Saturday, I pulled two all-nighters, launched a website, re-did the design of my individual app, built a screencast, presented in front of 30+ people on demo day, had my…

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Sprint to the Finish Line

Perfectly describes how I feel now…

So there’s only 7 weekdays left of Fullstack Academy and it feels like the 13th mile of the half-marathon I finished. I am tired, I am a little bit discouraged about doing this whole thing and at a certain point I don’t really care about it all. But the allure of the finish line, knowing that I will have done something pretty incredible is what is keeping me…

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Thoughts/Lessons from building first solo app

Over the last weeks, I’ve been working on a Facebook Birthday app. The app lets you sign in using Facebook and then its asks you to give it permission to collect your friends’ birthday data and ability to send others messages.

And in short, it has been hell and back. I started out pretty strong incorporating Facebook Authentication and messaging pretty quickly. However, then I lagged off a bit as…

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Learning by Failing

Before we get started: here’s a mind-bending picture:

HOLY CRAP!

Over the last two days I was trying to get my app to post on to other people’s facebook wall/timeline dynamically.

Unfortunately it seems like all the time I spent was a waste of time. While I’ve figured out that I can do it via the facebook javascript sdk api via their feed method. It seems like that it can’t be done dynamically so…

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We Code Unconferenced, Developer Lifestyle, 3 bugs

On Saturday, I went to this awesome conference called We Code Unconference at Dev Bootcamp, which is literally a block away from Fullstack Academy. It was a great experience for me because it was International Women’s Day and the conference was all about trying to get more women in the tech community.

I was rather late to the party as I got there around 3:30 and it started around 12:30 but I…

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Close to Escape Velocity

From the start of Fullstack Academy, we were told that at some point we could expect to reach a point in the changing of our mental model to the point where the concepts and implementation would not necessarily be difficult but rather just the work behind it.

And this week, although I’ve been struggling with Angular, I think I’ve gotten close to it. It took me about 4 days but I got a basic…

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Ruby, Road To Code, Gaining Superpowers

So last week, we started making our sideways transition from JavaScript to learning Ruby. And truly, it was a sideways transition. I kind of think of learning Ruby after JavaScript as like batting with heavy weights on your bat. JavaScript is more powerful in a way because it is truly a FULLSTACK language, as in it covers both front and backend frameworks within one language. While Ruby is a…

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Details, Learning, and Lifehack

So it’s been 6 weeks already since I started Fullstack. I am half-way done already and that is pretty amazing.

Sometimes I feel like a whole new person when I think of all of the things I learned and all of the things I can do now. It is a little bit like a superpower. Except I am like Clark Kent when he was just discovering his powers in his early teens. I am just discovering my power and I…

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Model-View-Controller

Over the last week we’ve been playing around with Node to build an application called tripplanner where we had to create a screen for users that allowed them to pick hotels, restaurants, and things to do (ttd) during a trip to downtown Manhattan. Here is a sample screenshot of what the app ought to look like.

And you can check out the code for it here.

Anyway, for that application I needed to…

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#Controller #Model #MVC #View

5 weeks in!

Wow, It’s crazy to believe but I am 5 weeks done with Fullstack Academy. It’s amazing how fast the time went by. On the other hand, it’s even crazier how much I’ve learned during that time. Last week was not particularly a happy week for me. After the hackathon, my health deteriorated. And the dumping of snow around the area did not help my life. On Thursday, I woke up and I was so sick. I went…

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Wow, It’s crazy to believe but I am 5 weeks done with Fullstack Academy. It’s amazing… Wow, It's crazy to believe but I am 5 weeks done with Fullstack Academy. It's amazing how fast the time went by.

OAuth, Node.JS, and Passport

If you’ve been browsing the web recently and come across an awesome website or app, you’ve probably…

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