As a developer marketing is probably the last topic you think about. But the reality is the best jobs go to the people who are well connected. If you want to work for the best companies on projects using the latest technologies for a salary you deserve then you need to market yourself. John Sonmez is the expert on teaching developers how to market themselves and has quite a remarkable career. He’s the founder of Simple Programmer, he published over 50 courses on Pluralsight, he hosts the Get Up and CODE podcast and he’s a life coach for software developers….
It’s never too late to start over. In this interview, Duncan Hunter, a FireBootCamp alumnus tells us a little bit more about his experience at FireBootCamp and how he changed careers only a few months ago. Changing careers could be the best decision you ever make, watch this inspiring story and learn more about Duncan and FireBootCamp. Who is Duncan Hunter? I am a Software Architect at SSW who loves working in passionate teams to make awesome software. Making software that people love and solves real world issues is what makes me tick. I made a dramatic career change in…
This presentation is a walk through of the code, benefits and how to get started using John Papa’s Hot Towel Angular. Hot Towel Angular creates a great starting point for building a Single Page Application (SPA). Out of the box it provides a modular structure for your code, view navigation, data binding, separation of services, and simple but elegant styling. Hot Towel provides everything you need to build a SPA, so you can focus on your app, not the plumbing.
In this interview Marlon Marescia from FireBootCamp interviews Jonathan Lau from SwitchUp.org on: Jonathan’s experience attending a coding bootcamp How to choose the right boot camp to attend The pros and cons of coding boot camps Which platform to learn when starting to code
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Robert Beerworth walks us through the software development process to see what it is like for designers
It has been an amazing, intense 9 weeks, and while I’m sad that it is over, I couldn’t be more proud of the guys and what they’ve achieved. They’ve all improved in different ways: Some of them arrived with a lot of experience… now they are awesome. Some were juniors straight out of uni… they’re still juniors but now with great experience. They surely know the right way to do things. These guys could spot a smell if you wanted to architect a dodgy solution that was untestable. Some are recently arrived from India with many years of experience but…
If you’re on the web, you’re a target. Hacktivists, career criminals and nation states are all pounding on the proverbial door of websites as soon as they go online and it’s frequently the same set of risks being exploited over and over again. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has created the Top 10 Web Application Security Risks as a means of describing and prioritizing these risks and most importantly, demonstrating how your applications can defend against them. This presentation walks through the Top 10 risks and explains what they are, shows how they’re exploited then most importantly, demonstrates…
TJ Gokcen presents an evocative and interactive talk about how to manage and account for every step of the Software Development Process, using Vizualization and Kanban boards (and how they can be worked into the scrum process).
In this presentation Craig Bailey gives an introduction to search engine optimisation (SEO) and provides guidance on the best tools to use for improving & measuring the impact of your SEO activities. Although pitched at a beginner level, the session follows an interactive format and spends considerable time answering detailed questions from developers about analytics, privacy rules, advertising best practices, remarketing and much more. The session is broken into two parts. Part 1 – Introduction to SEO A general introduction to SEO and where it fits in overall web marketing The importance of understanding the business goals of a web…