I had quite a few days off from work lately, a few weeks at a time even. Things are going slower at work, so I have a lot of time for studying and building all my passion projects. And the best news is that I’m going to quit my construction job in a few months….
Distraction Free Hospital
The last couple of days have been hectic, Thursday I had surgery. They removed a polyp in my intestines. Not that big of a deal really, it happend under full narcosis and I could go home an hour after surgery. The next day I was bleeding very heavily inside my intestines and lost quite a…
Giving Up
This is a direct follow up to the Making Mistakes post and a continuation of my personal story. PHP->end(); So I was indeed making some money off my PHP skills at the age of 16, that probably lasted until the age of 17/18. I made the mistake of getting back into World of Warcraft, the ever lasting…
How to Learn Fast
Learning is the most useful skill you’ll ever posses in the developer world, new frameworks and technologies pop up like weeds, and you will have to learn fast in order to keep up with demand. Learning is something you don’t ‘learn’ in schools, so being self taught is a benefit on this matter. And one other…
Meetup.com
So last Tuesday I went to my first Meetup.com event. It was slightly awkward going on my own, as I don’t know anybody else that’s into development really. There were some talks about React Native which I really wanted to see, as I’m learning React at the moment. React Native looks like a good step forward…
The MERN Stack
So I decided to go for Node.JS as my primary learning path. Not only Node, but specifically the MERN stack. So MongoDb, Express, React and Node. Now I haven’t started with React yet so I’m not sure a 100% about the big React VS Angular option, but I’ll figure it out as I go. That’s…
Making Mistakes
It all started with a healthy bunch of mistakes, those mistakes are the starting point of where I am today. Do I regret these mistakes ? Off course not, I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t make them in the first place, I really don’t see them as mistakes anyway. Everybody makes mistakes, and our…
Getting That Developer Job 