Writing A Review That “Pays-It-Forward”

She wrote this post to help bootcamp students and graduates write more informative reviews to help out future students.  When you started your bootcamp research, chances are you began by comparing programs online. Maybe you read through reviews on a site like SwitchUp, browsed posts on Medium, or even reached out to alumni through social media.…

Mary Bergeron

How I Tricked My Boss Into Hiring Me As A Developer

Shortly after college, I interviewed for my first position as a web developer.  I had a bit of experience writing desktop applications, but virtually no experience in web development. At the time I had a fascination with learning Ruby on Rails, so I started learning it for fun. This was around 2008 before Ruby on Rails was…

Ken Mazaika

12 Reasons Why ES6 is the future of JavaScript and Web Development

JavaScript is a pretty strange programming language. But it’s also pretty cool. Back in 2007, Jeff Atwood (founder of StackOverflow), made a case that JavaScript would become a bigger part of web development. Atwood coined the term “Atwood’s Law,” which states: Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. It’s…

Ken Mazaika