Expert insights from senior developers and recent juniors — In software development, a ‘junior’ is someone who does not have sufficient skill or confidence to handle professional tasks in full independence or with teams. As a junior, it can feel daunting to know how to contribute as much as possible to a task while learning as much possible from…

I admit, being a developer, I have not been to a conference or event centred on design. When I found out TELUS digital was sponsoring the December 14 DesignX Toronto event, I took the time. …

August 25, 2017 at TELUS digital, Toronto — TechMasters hosted their first conference focused on Functions as a Service (also known as “FaaS” or “serverless”). It was co-planned with Full Stack Toronto, DevTO, Toronto JS, and Functional TO. The speakers and their talks complemented the FaaS topic perfectly by covering concerns such as open standards, security, adoption, and…

For code, open source software, tools, and more — Have you ever heard the phrase, “Read The Finely-written Manual?” The manual, being the ultimate source of truth and value for that tool or framework you’re learning; at least, so it should. Like many of you developers, members of TechMasters have some pain points and words of wisdom to share…

It’s time to start a new project, from scratch. Where do you begin? Many times it starts with sketches on paper, or a conversation with other types of developers. During a weekly discussion, the #TechMasters community shared their insights on how to properly plan a new project, and how to…

Graduating with a degree or training certificate last year comes with a certain level of obsolescence in your knowledge capital this year. Being a developer, you must stay current with the technologies of today and those of your workplace. That could mean knowing the latest vulnerabilities in a stack, the…

The tech community that keeps on giving — I’m not always the go-getter type. Luckily for me, several opportunities managed to find me instead; one was a double internship in Hong Kong at which I learned the LAMP stack from scratch to co-produce a video-recording system, and several years later I’m now finding myself making headway into my…