I’m jolted awake to the sound of the tones going off in my room. I knew that I hadn’t been asleep long because we’d already run a late call and it was still dark outside. Running to the truck, I hear the address come out over the radio for a medical call. It’s the third time this week we’ve been called to the same house. My driving is on autopilot because I know the city streets like the back of my hand. Not only had I worked in the same fire department for the last 6 years, but I’d also grown up in this city. On this and many other times I’d been woken up in the middle of the night, I’m starting to realize that I’m losing my passion for the job I once loved. How I Got Into Firefighting At 19 years old I was working in fast food, and I knew I needed to do something more with my life. I wasn’t really keen on going to college just yet, so I started looking for jobs that only needed vocational school. Knowing that I wouldn’t be a very good police officer, I signed up for fire school. During fire school I found the only way to get a job as a firefighter in Florida was to also be an EMT in order to run medical calls, so I enrolled in there as well. While I was in school, one of the instructors I met told me their department was taking on volunteers. Six years in the field, a year of paramedic school, and many sleepless nights...
I thought about writing about my personal coding journey many times, but never had the courage to do so. I was dismissive and thought: “Why would anyone want to read this?”Developers come from all walks of life. However, I want to talk about learning to code with young children, and the challenges of juggling parenting and studying. My background I’m not a conventional candidate for becoming a web developer. I went down a humanities route and I have no computer science background. I fell into a career in Higher Education and for over a decade I moved up the ranks in administration. I enjoyed my work but wasn’t fulfilled by my career choice.About seven years ago in search for a new career path, I sought advice to get into a more technical role. So I started learning the web fundamentals like HTML and CSS. My first attempt at coding was half-hearted. Fear was the main reason. I feared that the transition would take too long. I also got distracted by my upcoming wedding. 6 years later…one husband, a flat, and two babies under two! I had my first baby in January 2015. In a nutshell, having my son was a shock to the system and completely turned my world upside down. The sleep deprivation felt like torture and I had difficulty with breastfeeding. I was in a zombie state for the first six months.As things started to settle down, I found out that I was pregnant…again. This was during my first week back at work! My daughter was born in September 2016. Now I had two babies under twenty...
If you’re a small business owner, starting a website project or updating your current site can be a daunting task. Finding a new web developer or development company can be as stressful as a first date, with a proposal soon to follow. Thankfully this isn’t ’til death do us part,’ but a healthy business relationship is key to the success of both parties involved. To ensure the start of a great experience, we’ve outlined a research process to find the perfect web developer or digital marketing agency for your business. Research Web Developers & Agencies Finding a web developer often begins on the web. To find a local business we recommend using the following databases: View their Portfolio Once you’ve found a few potentials, you’ll want to view their online portfolio. This will give you an idea as to what level of quality you can expect, as well as their design aesthetic. First and foremost, look at their portfolio from a subjective point of view. If you like their design work and feel that their aesthetic matches the vision you have for your business, then check the credits of each project. Did they design and develop the project? In some cases, developers and agencies may work with a separate designer or hire and work with other freelancers. It’s important to find out exactly what was done on each project so you can gauge their experience and capabilities. If everything checks out, now it’s time to be objective and make sure their work is up to modern standards. There are a few quick tests that can easily be done. Test...
Hi, I’m Andy. I started working with websites in 2008, and I’ve been a full-time professional developer since June 2016. I started my career in the nonprofit field as an office assistant and then program administrator. I had experimented with website building as a bored teenager in the 90’s. I re-discovered an interest in websites in 2008 when I got the opportunity to manage my organization’s website. Since then, I have devoured knowledge on marketing, project management, and web development. I got an MBA in marketing and two project management certifications along the way. In June 2016, I started my own WordPress freelance business and thus my career as a full-time professional developer. I closed up shop after seven months due to financial instability. Since then, I have managed to make a living as a full-time and short-term/long-term contract web developer. I’ve had many ups, downs, and lessons learned in my journey as someone who switched to web development from not having a computer science background. Here’s what I learned: 1. This profession is difficult. Web development is complex, and it’s absolutely impossible to know every single thing. I’ve gone to many, many meetups and conferences where I don’t understand what on earth people are talking about in terms of programming. I’m a front-end guy, so I can only assume that whatever they were talking about was back-end or server stuff. Even though I’m a front-end guy, whenever I go to my local React meetup and they talk about pretty much anything, I still have no idea what’s going on. You’ll experience this too. It’s ok. Things will become...
Making websites takes time. There are a lot of parts you have to think about if you want to create a good, solid website and sometimes it might feel like there just isn’t a way to go through the work faster. Whether you work alone or with a team of designers and back-end developers, there are a lot of way to be more productive. A mistake many people and many companies make is that they set out to standardize their product. They only build based on a single WordPress theme, or all their sites have the same features. If you want to work with bigger clients they almost never want standard work though. They instead want something custom-fit to their needs and requirements. That’s more interesting work, more challenging and pays more. But it also means you you can’t standardize your product. You can’t (and don’t want to) standardize your product, but what you can do is standardize your process. As a lead front-end developer with over 15 years of experience, I spent a lot of time thinking about how to optimally configure this process. If you’re intentional about it you can get some impressive productivity gains in all areas of the process. Here’s 8 ways to do that, from the beginning of the project through to the end: Start from a solid base Agree on design shortcuts Use handoff tools Use a CSS framework Re-use your components Use Emmet Use Polypane Set up automated quality checking Start from a solid base If you start from scratch every single time, you can be sure you’re never going to be...
An app developer in B.C.’s Interior is using his talents and spare time to create mobile ordering apps at no charge for small, locally-run restaurants, to help them keep their businesses running amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though many restaurants have remained open, their business models have changed — takeout and delivery have become king, and third-party delivery services like Skip The Dishes and DoorDash are busier than ever. But when a restaurant signs up for one of those third-party delivery apps, they lose revenue. Kelowna restaurant owner Trevor Jones said it would cost him up to 30 per cent to have a third-party driver deliver food to customers. “It really is a complete ordering experience that kind of cuts out the middleman,” he said. That’s where Jeremy Buhler comes in; his app development business, Eazi-Apps, slowed down, just like many others, when the pandemic hit. He was growing restless and said he couldn’t sit on the couch any longer. He decided to put his skills to use, offering free mobile app development for restaurants. “Mobile apps are highly underappreciated and underutilized technology right now, because historically, this has been, apps are only for the big players,” he said. “[Any restaurant] can have their own mobile app and the mobile app goes directly on their customer’s phone.” On average, app development for a small restaurant would cost between $2,400 and $3,500, Buhler said. There is a maintenance fee of $149 per month to maintain the app and keep it current on Apple and Google. Once an app has been created, which Buhler said takes about a week, it has to be approved by Apple and Google before...
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