🐒 the story of two semesters of student hackery
Launch Pad is a student-run software engineering club where students form team to develop a project from ideation to (hopefully) completion over the course of several semesters. 🤖
When working on projects like this, it’s easy to forget how far you’ve come. Unlike a hackathon, where you spend 24 to…
We rebuilt our website from the ground up with a fresh coat of paint (in 8 days!)
We’re happy to announce that we’ve finally decided to get to work and churn out a brand new, from-the-ground-up refresh of our 4-year-old website to showcase our new branding and this semester’s projects!
🎉 The New Website
We’re launching our new website today on ubclaunchpad.com! The revamped website features:
- 🚀 a completely refreshed design
- …
No thanks I don’t want to fork your repository. 😶
I’m currently working with RTrade Technologies, Ltd. and a documentation website was recently set up for one of our APIs. I thought it looked great, and slick, and super nice.
I was told the documentation was generated using a project called Slate, and after taking a look I knew I…
Reducing Inertia’s continuous integration build time by over 75% using build stages, caching, and job concurrency
Travis CI is the continuous integration tool most of the teams at UBC Launch Pad — UBC’s student-run software engineering club — use to handle their projects’ CI needs. We currently have 14 Travis-enabled projects, 8 of which have been active in the last month.
From zero to… zero?
A little over a year ago, in the far-away days of 2017, I fell gracefully off my skateboard in an incident that ended with my face intimately embracing the warm tarmac near UBC’s bus loop. I broke two teeth and decorated my hands, knees, and face with an assortment of…
an introduction to sleuthing the web with Scrapy
A while back, I worked in a two-man team with Bruno Bachmann on Sleuth, a UBC Launch Pad project to build a domain-specific search engine. This project included building everything from the website and server to a scraper that would handle populating our database with websites to search. The goal…
How a team of students designed and created a flexible, Docker-based Heroku alternative
Here at UBC Launch Pad, many of our teams’ projects are web applications. A pretty awesome step in any web application’s development process is when you deploy it for everyone to try out.
Unfortunately, deployment can be a frustrating task, especially for students with little to no experience setting up…
