Making the transition from learning to create an app with Ruby on Rails, to using Javascript to create advanced front-end features and communicate with a database backend, it becomes apparent that the strict architecture and other conventions provided by Rails, while often complex, helped us stay organised within the MVC framework, ultimately created by somebody else. If we take the [...]

During our last project, in which we created an application that tracked the distances for takeaway shops in a certain radius to a user's location, a key part of the interface was embedded maps.We embedded maps for the user's location, for the location of each takeaway, and even for where certain dishes in our database came from. As such, [...]

Recently, for our module 1 project, we created a database which provided different personality type analyses based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. This test essentially sorts people into 16 personality types formed of 4 letters. Since each letter is encoded with a certain meaning according to the MBTI indicator, we thought it would be interesting to be able to return [...]

When it comes to the sometimes extreme complexity of relationships created by object-oriented programming, we all know that heart-sinking feeling when one little change causes a lot of things to break. Or, when looking for the culprit behind the error in your code feels like a unicode version of 'Where's Waldo.' At times like this, one of the very [...]

I went to the Hayward Gallery this week, where they were showing a retrospective of Korean artist Lee Bul. The work in the last room, which felt like the grand finale, was called 'Via Negativa'. It was a sculpture which consisted of a maze of fragmented mirrors leading to a central room with an infinity mirror chamber, surrounded by lights. [...]