After having too much fun in Istanbul I’ve been a bit disappointed by Greece. Transportation is difficult, food is mediocre, and people don’t seem as friendly. I have a hunch that maybe, since it’s mid-August, everybody is on vacation, because in Europe everybody goes on vacation in August, and maybe this is why the streets and plazas seem so barren. Read on though, for a more positive spin on things. [Read more…] about Greece – and how I’ll do it better next time
Five days in Istanbul
This was one of the scariest airports I’ve been in. Thank gawd I happened to have exactly 20 euros in my wallet, because this is exactly what the visa cost, even though they don’t do euros in Turkey. I had to purchase the visa from a vending machine, which was a first. [Read more…] about Five days in Istanbul
Five days in Lebanon
Web Development Bootcamp: 3 Projects
Bootcamp was completed in three modules. Each module ended with a project week, where we built a web app from scratch using the learned technologies. At the end of project week, we would present our creation to an audience. Here’s what I came up with.
Module 1: Front-End Web Development — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap
Module 2: Back-End MEAN Stack — MongoDB, Mongoose, Express.js, Handlebars, Angular, Node.js, API’s
Module 3: Full Stack Web Application
Sketches London
Urban hiking, London edition. Taking sketch breaks along the way.
And then I went to Paris:
Bootcamp Week Nine
Final project week!
In module three we wrap it all together and build a full stack application.
To help foragers find edible weeds, fruits, and other wild flora in and around their city, as well as share their findings with other foragers, I created weedmapper.
I used Illustrator to plan things out before coding:
When searching by location, you see pins on the map, posted by foragers and knowledgeable plant lovers in your community. The pins are clickable and their contents show in list form on the left side as well.
