Work @ Neehoy
Just after my graduation (as BSc Mathematics and Computer Science) I was given a short-term web development opportunity by Neehoy, a small yet growing company based in Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, involving the creation of a platform aimed at item management and sustainability for organisations such as the NHS.
The platform is build on Express.js (a Node.js framework), and uses MongoDB as its database engine. It was a completely new world for me as up until then I had only been developing websites on PHP based frameworks. Initially the codebase looked intimidating, but after a few days once I've figured out the workflow of the whole system I was able to see the flexibility of using NodeJS.
MongoDB seemed strange at first as well, sometimes contradictory to what I've been practising with MySQL databases. The idea that a Collection (homologous to a MySQL table) can contain any arbitrary fields was confusing and seemingly unsafe.
It has been an invaluable experience for me. This project has opened up the world of Javascript-driven web development to me and I'm now looking at Reactive web development using AngularJS to build some personal projects with Wraptime, a team consisting of my former coursemates in the University of Nottingham.
