Oliver Earl
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The problems with returning void in Laravel controllers
The problems with returning void in Laravel HTTP controllers.
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Software engineering and returning to my roots
My decision to take up a programming job – returning to software engineering – and start climbing the more typical career path for a computer science graduate has been met with an understandable amount of scepticism and confusion from friends and acquaintances who know me. I was always vocal about my desire to pursue education and academia; from my extensive volunteer and
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Introducing a PHP library for the Hashnode API
When I heard about the Hashnode Christmas Hackathon, I immediately began brainstorming ideas to develop something that members of the community might find useful, but would also be a great learning experience for me. After all, learning is at the heart of Hashnode. In any case, after numerous scrapped ideas and half-baked prototypes (that I’ll talk about in an upcoming article!) I decided that I
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What I learned from the Hashnode Writing Bootcamp
As an academic and a teacher, I spend a ridiculous amount of time writing. I always believed that I was pretty good at it and always wanted to write even more online. I was enamoured with the concept of technical writing here on Hashnode, but I genuinely had no real idea where to start, what to write about, or how on Earth
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My strategy for learning a programming language quickly
When I first arrived at my new school, I was completely unaware of what programming language they were using to teach the students – it’s something that is prone to change over time and isn’t usually mentioned on a job spec. Many schools throughout the UK will use Python from start to finish in both a procedural and object-oriented fashion later
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Your degree isn’t enough: my advice to students
A degree, whether it be in computer science, software engineering, mathematics or a related field is often marketed as the golden ticket for those wanting a lucrative career in programming. An often extortionately expensive goose that will eventually lay golden eggs for years to come. While it’s absolutely true that a degree has serious value in technical career paths, it should be