D. Darren MacDonald

So while I started working with databases back in the 90’s, they were fairly simplistic and did not require any internet access or APIs. Things sure have changed, the basic concept hasn’t but the application certainly has. When developing web applications, DBs are an integral part of the process. Last semester we explored a SQL […]

The past two months we have been focused on using the Ionic Framework, which is a free and open source framework. Ionic offers a library of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components, gestures, and tools for building highly interactive apps. Built with Sass and optimized for AngularJS. A big part of being comfortable with Ionic […]

So we are now 20 weeks in to our adventure called UIT and this week we were introduced to the world of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). To get there we had a great tutorial put together by Jeff Andersen of Salesforce. The concept of his tutorial was to show us how to create a simple […]

This was an amazing week of activities to promote entrepreneurship locally as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), November 17-23rd, 2014. We kicked off Monday with Startup Cape Breton 2.0, a follow up meeting from this past summer. One of the ideas announced in the summer was UIT Startup Immersion, the program I am currently […]

So this week we had a very busy week and we crammed a lot into the 5 days stretching Oct 27th-31st, including: Mid-term for CBU Biz Course Dragon’s Den type pitch with a mentor SPARK Cape Breton – Business Idea Competition Submission 2-Day Hackathon at UIT Halloween…. One of the most valuable and humbling experiences […]

This week was a roller coaster for me and my classmates. We started the week with our first road trip aka #UITroadie to Halifax to take part in Mentorcamp on Monday afternoon and Startup Empire all day on Tuesday. During Mentorcamp we were exposed to six companies that had taken part in day long meetings […]