by Shankar Poncelet | Apr 10, 2016 | Marketing
Video Content: How I got the idea to use Facebook Live Video for marketing purposes. What is Facebook Live Video and how to use it. 4 Industry specific use cases. Please excuse me closing my eyes so often. I was not sleepy – just very nervous and I had to FOCUS...
by Shankar Poncelet | Apr 9, 2016 | Design and Development, Services
You have no idea how often I encounter slow-loading websites. Unfortunately that is hurting businesses more than they think. An impressive 64% of smartphone users unforgivingly expect websites to load in under four seconds, yet average page waits continue to...
by Shankar Poncelet | Apr 7, 2016 | Design and Development, Self Improvement
There are several stages every web developer has to go through. For a long time one is just using other developers’ tools. You have no idea how many people are out in the wild, calling themselves web developers, and all they can do is install WordPress and...
by Shankar Poncelet | Mar 28, 2016 | BLOC Apprenticeship, Design and Development
This is blog post number 5 about my journey to becoming a software engineer. BLOC introduced me to a very effective tool to improve my coding skills. As always, if you want to improve in a field, you have to practice. Did you learn how to write without writing?...
by Shankar Poncelet | Mar 21, 2016 | BLOC Apprenticeship
This is blog post number 4 about my journey to becoming a software engineer. I am into week three of my first module called Rails Web Development. So far the material has been very easy for me. I guess that makes sense since I am already a fairly experienced...
by Shankar Poncelet | Mar 16, 2016 | Design and Development, Services
How to Sell Online? I’d like to start this post by emphasizing one of the principles that I always follow in my work. I strongly believe that a successful project is based on good communication and mutual understanding. Building an eCommerce website is a very...
by Shankar Poncelet | Mar 9, 2016 | BLOC Apprenticeship
This is blog post number 3 about my journey to becoming a software engineer. Meeting My Mentor I waited impatiently for this moment. My Block Dashboard had revealed the time of my first mentoring session and the appointment was conveniently imported into my Google...
by Shankar Poncelet | Mar 7, 2016 | BLOC Apprenticeship
This is blog post number 2 about my journey to becoming a software engineer. Let me share my goals that I hope to achieve with the help of this apprenticeship: I want to gain the knowledge that will help me market myself as an expert in web applications. As a...
by Shankar Poncelet | Feb 21, 2016 | BLOC Apprenticeship
This is blog post number 1 about my journey to becoming a software engineer. One of the main reasons I want to complete the apprenticeship with BLOC is the mentor I will be assigned to. I am so curious who he/she will be! Before I get assigned to a mentor I have to...
by Shankar Poncelet | Feb 12, 2016 | Business Strategy
I first learned about the Broken-Window Principle when I read The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. The book is highly recommended to anyone who is interested in good coding practices. The Broken-Window Principle teaches that if you start...
