Medicine.js

I recently interviewed at a fin-tech startup for a Software Engineer role (mainly front end React). I really liked the CTO and could see their product being a success. I was feeling good. Then came the technical questions. I fumbled the answers to Object Oriented Programming, Functional Programming, and Core JavaScript questions. Dazed, the pair […]

2017 Goals

The goals laid down for this year are ambitious. I don’t know how I’m going to achieve them all, yet, but i’m taking a leaf out of Tony Robbin’s book and setting, what are in many instances, 10x what would be realistic. This type of chasm is necessary to stay excited about the future and […]

Mid 2016 Update

It’s been several months since I wrote my last post. Since then I’ve moved back to London and hunkered down developing grraft, the mentorship platform for professionals. This post will wrap around grraft and lifestyle in general. Let’s start with a couple of stories. Story 1: Speed Mentoring On my birthday I went to a […]

I started my first company. It’s called grraft

Today is a big day for me, I started my first company. It’s called grraft. But that’s not where the story begins. See, I wanted to become a software engineer. Jim Rohn said “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with” but I didn’t know any software engineers. I […]

LevelUp – lessons learned and monetisation

Technical lessons learned Let’s start with a technical review of the project LevelUp. You can think of this as part 3 with part 1: OAuth 2 and part 2: Building a MEAN foundation. Things I learned Angular Filters Controllers Services and Factories – reusable interface with backend Directives – creating usable HTML components Dependency Injection Integrating Angular components […]

LevelUp is live

I’ve been working on an app called LevelUp over the past couple of months. I’m pleased to announce that it’s available to the public over at https://levelupapp.herokuapp.com LevelUp ties goal to action, ambition to accountability, progress to measurement, and the person you want to be to the person you are. It’s free and anyone can use it. First 5 minutes […]

Building a MEAN foundation

I spent some time developing an app with Angular at its heart. The app’s called MEANT, which stands for Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node Template – the idea of the template app was to develop a foundation, or a skeleton app, which I could use to bootstrap apps developed in the future. Some of the features […]

OAuth 2: the gatekeeper

I was looking for a way of handling user authentication in Node. Passport.Js looked to be the forerunner via local login strategies. Social sign in caught my eye, I personally like the user experience and use of it often so I decided to explore it. Taking a look under the hood, social sign in relies on OAuth, this is […]

Groundhog day

I watched Groundhog day for the first time this afternoon. I’d like to bring out the lessons Phil Conners, the antagonist turned protagonist, learns during his time reliving the same day for 30 plus years. Phil, a weather presenter with a cup half empty outlook, wakes up at 6am everyday to find it’s always the same day. […]

On becoming a software engineer

My mission over the next couple of years is to become a software engineer focused on developing modern full stack JavaScript web applications. What follows are my reasons and a roadmap to getting there. Why become a software engineer? Over the past few years I’ve had a chance to build software that people use day to day to make […]