Failing Forward Fast

When a reporter asked, “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” “Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.” Failing fast is … Continue Reading

The Death of My Java Blanky

When something is done a particular way over a period and it yields desired results, it must be a good way of doing things, right? Why change, there’s no reason to fix what’s not broken. Why switch to renewable energy, dial-up to fibre, or Java to Kotlin?

But stop for a moment and consider the type of world we’d be living in today had there been no change.

UI/UX Libraries that will take your Android project to the next level in 2021

Wondering which libraries to explore to grow your app’s audience? Here is a collection of my favourite libraries to enhance any Android app experience.

Xcode Tips and Tricks

In this post, I will show you some pretty neat and efficient tricks I’ve learned using the Xcode IDE which can help speed up your daily iOS development.

4 Essential things to kick start your Software Development career

There is a multitude of different languages and applications that can be built in this day and age. You could be starting off as a web developer, or creating mobile apps for Android or iOS. Regardless of what coding adventure you are embarking on, these 4 essentials are going to help you become a better software developer.

Transitioning from Android to Swift & iOS Development

When joining the Head Start internship programme, I started working with Android as this was the only experience that I had. Since then I have been granted the opportunity to learn iOS app development, which is where I find myself at the point of writing this blog post.

The Summer Festival of Learning heats up!

After the first month of our seventh Summer School season, we’ve received some encouraging feedback about our iterated programme, the Summer Festival of Learning. 

Annual skills development programme expands to offer more inclusive technology skills

In its seventh year, Summer School will offer participants the opportunity to learn Cloud-related technologies and approaches, as well as additional business-focused streams open to students of Commerce, Journalism and Media Studies.

Accessing Azure VMs over RDP and SSH on Private IPs with Azure Bastion Preview

Securely connecting from the outside world to workloads and virtual machines on private networks can be challenging. Here’s how Azure Bastion can help!

Innovators connect on new cloud app

GirlCode to host 3 hackathons for 2018

Sign up for Open Night: Design for developers

Join us on Thursday, 30 March for user interface design tips presented for developers, by developers.