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May 4

Component, component, component — Makers Day 53

Today started the same as all days in group projects: with a standup. We went through the usual breakdown of what had been achieved, what we planned to achieve and any blockers we may be facing. I spent the evening yesterday going through all of our MUI code for the…

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May 3

Maximum Viable Product — Makers Day 52

We’ve had two weeks of working from home, and even though I’m astonished by how quickly this course has flown by, it feels like an age has passed since we last went into the office. …

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May 2

Please, no, not tonsilitis — Makers Day 51

It truly feels like an eternity since I’ve sat down to write a blog post. In reality, it’s only been a mere week and a half, it just feels a lot longer because I’ve had to sit at home licking my wounds. In the last 3 days of our previous…

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Apr 19

Error: re-routing — Makers Day 42

Today started off in a very similar place to where I left off yesterday, working on the front end of the profile page of our site. I needed to populate the page with a list of friends in the CSS grid so that users would be able to get a…

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Apr 19

I will love you until the very (front) end — Makers Day 41

In my last blog post I covered a few days of work due to my broken laptop keyboard, I left off on Friday, but I did work all of the following Saturday on the project, so I will start by covering what I did there. There were only a few…

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Apr 18

RIP to my keyboard, you served me well — Makers Days 38–40

You may have noticed from the title that I’ve had to roll 3 days of blogs into one. Sadly the keyboard on my MacBook gave up, not great for a developer and definitely not great for writing blog posts. The keyboard has had some persistent issues for some time now…

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Apr 12

The six P’s — Makers Day 37

I was spoiled by the sun once more as I woke up this morning, along with the warmest morning of the year so far, I felt luck was on my side for our second day of the Acebook challenge. Chris from the team stayed with me last night, he has…

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Apr 11

CodeBaddiez Vol. I — Makers Day 36

The sun was shining once more as I awoke this morning. A good omen for a day that I spent the weekend feeling quite nervous about. Today marks the day that we start our Acebook challenge, a clone of Facebook. For the time being (more on that later), we’ll be…

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Apr 8

Please leave us a review — Makers Day 34

The sun graced us with its presence this morning, so at long last I did not make my way to the station in the rain. Following our peer group, we went straight into a workshop. …

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Apr 6

Wait, timeout — Makers Day 33

Okay, London, you teased us with the good weather a couple of weeks ago, it’s time to bring that back, please. The more intense this course has become, the more I understand why Makers decided to schedule specific times for our peer groups. I was not in the best of…

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