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Acebook day 7 — “How many fingers does my hand have?”

You’d think that a team made of people who forget about the basics would struggle with writing “Hello World” with a crayon. And instead… I’d recommend to check the next few lines to witness the amount of stuff this team managed to…

Day 9

So, the lovely weather is definitely the nemesis to our poor acebook project. Antonio was standing strong all day, while Irfan and I just could not get our heads around coding. At some point in the morning, even the wifi decided to quit for a while… It’s end of week nine and everyone is exhausted. All of us have…

Building acebook in two weeks- a Byte 4 Project

Day 1

Challenge: our team needs to build a social media platform within 10 days using Ruby on Rails (which we have never used before).

Day 3 — Byte 4

Stand up: we decided to do some more research on layout, testing, and travis. As our team was down to three people, each of us focused on one topic. We also set an afternoon goal: finish testing and implementing user authentication and some features of posts.

Day 8

The weekend is coming and Byte 4 is close to the finish line. The biggest challenge today was to sit inside and get things done while London welcomed the first really nice and warm day of 2018…

At our usual stand up, we listed all the things we wanted finish or fix during the day. Travis…

Tomfoolery in RAILS

Ok. New framework on a forgotten language (for me, at least). Our only saviour is the basic foundations of a working app Makers Academy have bestowed upon us. They say Rails is magic; I’d have to agree. Its inner workings a complete mystery to this seasoned beginner. A few basic commands and…

Week 8 — Day 2: Deconstructing the magic behind Rails