Why Women Should Consider a Career In Software

Why Software is a Great Career Choice for Women Software engineering has exploded with the rise of the digital age, and with it,…

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How to Become a Successful Software Engineer

How to fast-track your career and become a successful software engineer. Disclaimer: Success means different things to different people, but for me it…

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Personal Goals and Gamer Mentality

When I was in high school, my art teacher used to tell me that once you hit 25, it’s all downhill, fat and…

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On the JetBrains Subscription Reaction

A few days ago, JetBrains announced that they will be moving from perpetual licenses to a subscription based model. An overwhelmingly negative public…

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Debug CLI Scripts with XDebug and PHPStorm

This is a quick how-to guide on setting up XDebug debugging for command line scripts. I felt it took me way too long…

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On Learning New Things

About a month ago, I attended a UX Conference in Johannesburg.  Garth Braithwaite (@GarthDB) from Adobe, one of the speakers, encouraged the audience to…

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Tips on Building a RESTful Laravel API Backend

After some two weeks of casual development, I have nearly completed a Laravel 5 backend for a time tracker app (save for some…

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Starting out with Laravel

I have decided to start out my learning journey with Laravel 5. Laravel has been getting some serious buzz in the PHP community….

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Simplicity

Simplicity is the essence of happiness. – Cedric Bledsoe

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Hello!

Hi there! My name is Clara. I am a software engineer, avid gamer, occasional artist and everyday wife and mother (to an overweight…

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