I decided to give myself a challenge recently, so I could do a bit of coding in my spare time. Seeing as I am writing blog posts almost every week (bar the odd long gap), I thought it would be great to create my own website where I can host my blog. At the moment … Continue reading Creating My Own Blogging Website
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Day 57 at Makers Academy
Graduation Day Today was our final day at Makers Academy! The final step in our 12 week bootcamp was to present our final project to a crowd of Makers, employers, friends and family. Morning Prep We got into the office early this morning so we would have time to practice our presentation together. We ran … Continue reading Day 57 at Makers Academy
Day 28 at Makers Academy
Security and More Bookmark Manager Password Security I mentioned yesterday that we were using 'bcrypt' to securely store our passwords, and I wanted to show how that looked and roughly how it works. When you enter your password in the form, it is run through bcrypt, which then returns back to you a seemingly random … Continue reading Day 28 at Makers Academy
Day 12 at Makers Academy
More Boris Biking Today I pretty much just worked on the Boris Bike project I talked about yesterday. I had managed to get quite far yesterday but hit a stumbling block. This morning I decided that I wanted to start again from the beginning to cement my understanding of the work we had done. This … Continue reading Day 12 at Makers Academy
