Knee Deep

It has been a while since I have posted— due to being knee, dare I say, neck deep in two MEAN Stack apps for my midterm Capstone and a group Capstone at NSS, Nashville Software School.


It began with a shiny idea and a very hopeful newbie.


See the rest of this awesome Cartoon HERE, by Grant Snider.


Three-quarters of the way later…

I learned to let go of some wild ideas due to time constraints, after all I am just one person.

I learned that it is definitely going to have bugs.

I learned that sometimes you have to forgo the TDD, test driven development, for a more quickly tossed together app— that you can surely test later.

I learned that things don’t often go to plan.

I learned that it is ridiculously hard to do an image upload in Angular. Seriously. Why?

Check this article out HERE.

I realized the importance of my good friend git and the git flow branching model; let’s not forget the super-helper git reset —hard.

I Learned Three Words:

Minimum Viable Product

But, I’m still working on that.

-Kayla