There are several perks to studying computer science at university (you know - computers, science and being reminded that we can become the next Elon Musk). Sadly, learning web development isn’t one of them. So, I decided that I…
My second internship at Red Badger - Introducing the Red Badger Mystery Meals scheme.
As is the way for every student in Year 10 at Sydenham School, I had to go out on two weeks of work experience. After research into various businesses and emails to and from several contacts, I eventually decided that Red Badger would be my choice…
Four months into my second internship with Red Badger, I’m here to give you my opinion about what it’s really like to work here. Daily life, social experiences and free holidays. There’s a lot going on at Red Badger.
Here at Red Badger we often talk about being proud of our culture, and a defining part within our culture is the mighty toastie. YES that's right; not that you're surprised of course.
This week Joe introduced us to the concept of Agile Retrospectives. This is an opportunity to look back at the project so far and review how everything is going. What do we want to start doing? Continue doing more of? Stop doing?…
Badger Academy endeavours have slowed down slightly, managing my last year of university and working part-time is a becoming a sizeable challenge. Much more so to come once I arrive in the real world!
Over the past few weeks on Badger Time, we've had a steady workflow for the API where we followed TDD principles of writing feature tests first and code later. It wasn't an issue to set that up in Rails as the various gems already out there for Ruby…
It's week 7 at Badger Academy, and it feels like things are really starting to come together. As the codebase begins to take shape, and more of the blanks are being filled in, I'm finding it easier to contribute as there are now more examples for me…
It’s week 4 of Badger Academy, but for me personally as the 3rd intern to join, it’s the first week. Not only am I a few weeks behind on the Badger Time project, but fresh from the 3 month Web Development Immersive course at General Assembly, I’m…
The third week of Badger Academy has passed, and with it ends the first cycle of seniors helping interns. For this thursday we were paired with Joe Stanton. We ran into a lot of problems during the week, which left us somewhat frustrated but also…
This week in Badger Academy, we were joined by Alexander Savin, a senior engineer of many talents. Under his guidance, he assessed the current state of our DevOps including the decision to use docker. Finalising last week's architecture choices, we…
Last Wednesday marked the beginning of Red Badger's intern training program - Badger Academy. As interns, Eric and I will be the 'prototypes' with a dynamic syllabus covering the fundamentals.
Don’t completely rely on your grades to get you a job after uni. A CS degree will prove you're intelligent and understand the theory, but that will only take you so far during an interview. We have to talk about apps we've built with potential…
Back in January this year I went away for a 10 day retreat. The initial intention was to get away from work completely. No phone. No internet. No work. However, unexpectedly it ended up being incredibly conducive to coming up with a whole plethora…
First things first: my name is Michel, I recently moved to London from the maritime city of Bremen, Germany, and I joined Red Badger as a design intern a couple of weeks ago. I study Interaction & Moving Image at the London College of Communication…
