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FINAL GOOD-BYE & END
Hope Brian will not mind if I will share the message he wrote for all of us. So much true in such a tiny message:
There are 7 billion people in this world, 30 million residents in Malaysia. Fate and dreams brought us all to a tiny little room in a half-empty town that is 35km from city center for 9 weeks to stare at computer screens from 9 to 6. Yet we all had fun, enjoyed playing guitar, ping pong, had pizza parties, nibbling on snacks and exercises. We came to acquire coding skills, but we go after obtaining so much more: friendships and weight gains.
Today we separate to continue working on our respective goals, and most likely we will not gather again for a long time. But no matter where we are and where we will be, we will always be there for each other, in Slack. The past 9 weeks had been a fruitful. It was a pleasure to meeting you guys.
It's not about the destination; it's about the journey. May our paths cross again.
Good luck, have fun.
THANK YOU to the people who is leading the bootcamp.
Josh & Audreyling + Delilah
THANK YOU to all mentors for sharing their experience / lessons and helping us to become great programmers.
Estelle, Faiz, Faris, Holloway, Jalen, Ming, Ping, Tom, Shin Yin & You Jing
THANK YOU to all our classmates for the wonderful journey & strong friendship from the beginning of the bootcamp to the end & hopefully after it too.
Alex, Brian, Carliff, Chia Pei, Devan, Fahmi, Irfan Jacky, Jason, Kien, Leo, Michael, Mithi, Sam, Terry, Tharan, Tom, Yew, Wen & Zhen
THANK YOU to MaGIC, the people I had the chance to meet from the Oct & Dec batch. It was such a wonderful journey.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU & see you in 2017!
This is the LAST post on this blog. Memories will stay forever & this blog too. Come here any time when you will want to look back & refresh memories. It was a short period of our lives that I believe will have a huge influence in our futures. Thanks to it I believe some of us will change the World for a better place to live with their ideas, startups or apps. Wish all the best with you new adventure / journey.
THANK YOU & feel free toÂ
Connect with me on LinkedIn
Being a friend on FB
Follow my personal blog
PS: This blog contains 50 posts of our journey. Wow!
PS1: All of you above - if you will ever have a journey to Europe, let me know! And youâre more than welcome to visit Czech / London - guess I would be able to even find you a place to sleep for free, haha.
What Iâve learned - summary
Our original program:
Week 1: Code as a means of Writing Instructions To Make Computers as Smart as You - RUBY
Week 2: Model Real World Objects - RUBY
Week 3: Memory is Temporary, Databases is Forever! - SQL
Week 4: An Intro to Frontend & Backend Web Development - HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, jQuery & AJAX
Week 5: Tying the Know With Web Development - SINATRA
Week 6: Faster App Development with Frameworks: Ruby-on-Rails - RAILS
Week 7: Getting Advanced with Ruby-On-Rails - RAILS + PROJECTS
Week 8: Good Developers vs Not So Good Developers - RAILS PROJECTS
Apps Iâve built:
Bit-ly clone app in SINATRA:Â https://magic-url.herokuapp.com/Â - need refactoring
Quora clone app in SINATRA:Â http://quora.herokuapp.com/Â - need refactoring
Airbnb clone app in RAILS:Â http://air-bnb.herokuapp.com/Â - need refactoring
Bookku team project in RAILS:Â http://bookku.herokuapp.com/Â - not quite done.
Rails gems, APIs, frameworks, integrations:Â
Amazon S3, Braintree API, Geocoder, GoogleBooks API, Elastic Search & Searchkick, Devise & Clearance, OmniAuth, Figaro, Foreman, Pagination, MiniMagick, ActiveMailer, Mailbox, Sidekiq for bg job, Faker, Geocoder, gMaps4rails, Paperclip with S3, Foundation & Bootstrap framework...
TODO list:
Refactoring all my projects
Improve skill in Javascript, AJAX and jQuery
The bootcamp finished. From now Google is my best friend & debugging my best mentor.
THANK YOU.
Our LAST Day - final assessment
The Friday in the last week summary was not our last day in the bootcamp. The last day was on the following Monday 11th January, where we attended our final assessment.
All students who were able to reach that stage, we all are getting a certification of participation. For the ones who were able to pass the final assessment too, they will receive an extra certification of excellence. Â
PHOTO: Our final assessment
On the day of the assessment, we received a rails project with some rspec test. We had to write lines of code that would follow the instructions and passed all tests. Just three people from the previous batch solved more than the minimum 90% of the tests.
I am not a fan of certifications and degrees. During our bootcamp I spent lots of weekends sitting in Starbucks catching previous challenges or learning something extra. The weekend before the test was although a bit different. On Saturday, I spent my time updating my blog and I wrote down my feeling about any tests or certifications. I also wanted to do my personal challenge instead of being tested.
I published the post here but on Sunday I felt useless and I couldnât do anything. It was the day before the test and the day before I had to move from my home in Cyberjaya. Also saying goodbye to the bootcamp & thinking what to do the rest of my time in Malaysia. Thus my personal challenge lost the importance and I felt that the post I published was also a bit irrelevant with a personal view - so I unpublished it but eventually I still feel it is worth to read it at least. Here is the link, but don't take it too seriously, please, haha.
Back to the test...
We started about 10 am and the deadline was at 5 pm. Just five of us passed the test including me. Not very happy last day for most of us. For my classmates who didn't pass it, read this & don't give up! ;D. The certification is the last thing we all should care about.
On the end of our last day we had the opportunity to say something about one another - giving / receiving feedbacks. Thank you for everything and all the amazing messages guys! After that, we had our final dinner with mentors and bosses included.
THANK YOU.
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Back in time - in our 7th week we had a Q&A session with Gwen - the Masters of Code winner and incredible pitcher. I wrote more about it in this post. The video from the session is finally online so please feel free to play it & relax.
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Week 10 summary: The LAST WEEK
The original length of our bootcamp supposed to be 9 weeks. This is an extra 10th week due to many holidays we had during our journey. Hard to believe but this was our last week ever in MaGIC and with the amazing mentors & classmates.
Before I will start to cry, let me do the summary for the last week.
We continued to do our projects - in my case the Booku Booku project. It was our first time we were working on a project as a team and collaborate through Github.
We did not finish the project yet but I think we did an amazing job. There are a few features we can be proud of.
Google Books
- If a user would like to add / sell a book, we will search the book by given title from the user and thanks to Google Books API, we are able to extract all the information about the book without bothering the user to fill them manually himself.Â
The information includes title, subtitle, authorâs name, category, description, total pages, publisher, published date, language, book cover image, book preview, language, average rating (and how many ratings in total), market price etc.
There is a screenshot how it looks like:
Notice of the 3D book cover. This is actually 2D cover not very beauty in the original. The 3D effect is done by CSS styling following this tutorial. All the books are thus beautiful in the same style like from a professional photographer.
We also implemented a mailbox system to send a message to users with Inbox, Sent & Trash. A user receiving a message through our website will be automatically notified by email.
And other functionality we already knew from previous projects like Braintree payment API, Devise, OmniAuth, Figaro, Foreman, ElasticSearch, Pagination etc + great userâs profile page with all the information like transactions, added books etc.
We are done with back-end and most of the things in front-end but it is not perfect yet. I will post a link once my "boss" will deploy a final version on Heroku.
UPDATE:Â http://bookku.herokuapp.com/
MAGIC MAP Program
Our bootcamp Next Academy is supported by MaGIC - Malaysian Global & Innovation Creativity Centre - "Empowering the Spirit of Entrepreneurship". A few days ago MaGIC opened again a program for new startups:
"A program to accelerate 50 startups to be investment-ready in 4 months, and to build a strong ASEAN startup community."
Non-Malaysians people are welcome to apply too. This is the Silicon Valley in Malaysia. I've never heard of any program like that. I think it is a great opportunity to get into it. The only Czech person I met in Malaysia was in the program with her startup MyStay.cz - free living, monthly stipend, working space etc.
If your idea is at least in the stage of the minimum viable product, you can apply. There is a big chance to get involved. What does it mean?
During four months period, you would have access for these benefits:
World-class mentors and investors to support your startup / idea
Visa, monthly stipend (1.500 rm / month), return flight ticket, accommodation and working space.
So why not to give a try? Once I will be ready with some startup, I will definitely find something like this and attend it. Who gives you these benefits when you start a business?
Read more about this program and apply here
PS: I just found a useful link with apps that will make work easier - for startups, programmers... anybody - Â http://innerwanderlust.com/resources/
5 best tutorials you have to try in Rails
Just to show you the possibility of ruby on rails and what we all can build just in the 9 weeks thanks to gems etc. I found a few tutorials that are definitely worth to give a try and build them on your own to gain new experience.
5. Tips for Rails tutorials
Making Facebook clone in minimum possible time
Private Inbox - Inbox, Sent, Trash
Beauty Drag and Drop file upload - in with AJAX & Paperclip
Sending SMS messages in Rails
Tagging from Scratch - great tutorial not just for tags, but also for AJAX & Foundation framework (something like Bootstrap but generally more popular for front-end oriented programmers.
5. Tips to make your app more beauty:
Canva - the easiest way to design anything
Sweet Alerts - Sweet pop-up windows.
Bootswatch - tired of classic appearance of Boostrap? Try Bootswatch.
jQuery Datapicker calendar - with amazing documentation for your Rails project (I used it in my air-bnb project.
Fancy dropdown login form - choose your favourite from this website.
List of gems for ruby separated by categories + short description. Have a look.
Do you have anything else worth to share?

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Team project fight
This photo could illustrate our final team projects we did this week - some personal & many github conflicts. No seriously, this was just a part of our daily exercise a few days ago.Â
And one extra photo from yesterday:Â
âHackâ your MAC with these apps
I bought my MacBook Pro here in Malaysia two days before the bootcamp start - here you can read more. Iâve never had Mac before so it was my first bigger experience (actually I had a few days used Mac that was broken).Â
Anyway during the two months journey I discovered many cool and useful apps so Iâd like to share with you what I am using:
f.lux -Â âsoftware to make your life betterâ. Will help you balance colors on your screen especially at evening / early morning hours where the white on your screen is very strong. Check it, you will not regret. On the beginning it could be a bit strange but you will quickly adapt to the screen. Number one for me. | Free
Hocus Focus - Automatically hides inactive windows. If you are crazy like me with 10 apps open at once, you will find it very useful - though if you really need some app, it could be quite annoying when it constantly disappears but you can always customize it (I am just too lazy). | Free
Dash - If you travel a lot and you donât have the internet connection, just download Dash and have offline access to thousands of recourses and languages in offline mode. From now you can do coding nonstop even without the internet and still be able to find anything you need. // actually not thousands but: 150+ API documentation sets - how many of these languages you know? | Free
RescueTime - Software running behind and measuring your productivity. How you spend your time and applications you use most often. | Free
Quiver - your coding notes. Always save & have access to the codes that might be worth to save it or important for in a future. Quick search through notes thanks to tags. Never lose any important codes / links / resources any more. Thank to Audrey for recommendation - and I guess sheâd like to thank you to Josh - so thank you Josh too, haha. | No Free.
OTHERS
GitHub Desktop, Color Picker for HTML / CSS colors, Endurance to save battery...
If you have some useful app for MAC and coding, please share it with me ;D
Week 9 summary: Projects
The previous week we had the chance to pitch our ideas / projects in front of an audience and to the winners of the most voted ideas were assigned the rest of students to work in teams on it.
The winner ideas:
Mithiâs  Uniteers: Create a platform to connect organisations with volunteers
Samâs Booku Booku: A platform for exchanging booksÂ
Brianâs SP-A-M: Entertainment news
Leoâs Contractr: A platform that connect job seekers with organisations for contract jobs
I am in the Booku Booku team. The idea is was very simple but when we were getting deeper and deeper, we are actually facing many challenges how to build the project. The most important is Iâd say the user experience side - how to simplified it to the way that people will actually use it / will be willing to ship books - in exchanging for points, not for money.
It is really great experience to see how to work in a team, cooperative among each other and have it synchronised well through git commits. Ohh... and I forgot that before the pitching on Wednesday we were going through rspec and testing our apps. But for now letâs have a look for the PHOTO of the WEEK:
Our lunch after pitching ideas on Wednesday 30th Dec.
The last day of 2015 we still had a class where we started to build the projects.
...HAPPY NEW YEAR...
I celebrated the New Year in KLCC - the twin towers in Kuala Lumpur. Unfortunately I was on the wrong side of the twin towers, the side where was no firework... with million other people. It was quite funny see how people prepared their mobile phones to record the firework and basically nothing happened. Well...
On Saturday I spent my time in Starbucks balancing the year 2015 and planning / making goals for 2016. Today I was in our class with my team boss Sam and Ifran. He is playing here on a guitar right now and the MAGIC on Sunday looks like that - completely empty.
The next week will be our last one and then just final assessment on Monday 11th January. Slowly the end of it is coming...
Happy New Year!
I wish all of you that 2016 will be the best year youâve ever had.
I wrote two posts on my personal blog so if you have a bit of time, you can read them:
2015: Recap / Review
2016: Timeline & Goals
Today it is exactly two months since we joined the bootcamp and just a few last days left. Now we are working on winnerâs projects we pitched and 11th January we will have our final assessment.
During the two months weâve done three projects so far:
https://magic-url.herokuapp.com/Â - in Sinatra
http://quora.herokuapp.com/Â - in Sinatra
http://air-bnb.herokuapp.com/Â - in Rails
However... Happy New Year!
Pitching projects
Today was a big day for us. We were pitching our project ideas in front of our classmates, December batch and mentors. It is always a bit adrenalin to speak in public for most of people, especially if they are from Europe, haha!Â
The purpose of the pitching was to introduce our idea / project we want to build. After that we were voting for the best ones and the winnersâ projects we are going to eventually build in teams.
Before I will start with introduction, I will tell you one important thing: If you are going to pitch together with many people one by one - go first or last. It is the biggest chance to win. Ages ago I saw some infographic about when we remember things most and when we pay the highest attention. This is on the beginning and the end of everything. In the middle we just stop to pay attention on it, we are getting tired.
So we had 19 pitches. Who won? First, second and the last one (well, + number 14). In the October batch, the winner was the first pitcher and if I remember well, the last one (or the one before last, not sure now). So thatâs for your curiosity where is the best time to pitch. The most interesting thing is that no one from us wanted to pitch first even mentors were looking for someone for longer time and eventually the first pitcher was chosen by some âgameâ.
In my brain I was thinking about the rules that we pay the highest attention on the beginning but I was just too scared of public speaking to go first, haha. Next time ;D. But this is just for your information, most of all pitches were really really great and the winnersâ ideas definitely deserved to win.
I didnât have any idea despite we knew it 2 weeks back that we will be pitching. I woke up todayâs morning and tried to think about something but it didnât work. Then I got back my idea I was trying to build 1,2 years ago - building personal CVs.
Let people uploaded their CVs in my webiste
Provide free review / feedback in exchange for email
Get back by asking if they found a job and offer extra service like: - create a professional CV or edit / fix their own
...or cover letter / LinkedIN and many other things in offer
Here is my presentation in Prezi:
--- MY PITCH PRESENTATION ---Â
The problem with my idea: My pitch wasnât any good - because of the last minute, I didnât have any chance to practise it (which I would definitely love to do it..). Secondly I forgot to mention some very important data in my presentation - I remember now I had very good statistic about how many people have 1 or more spelling mistakes in their CV etc. Here is an infographic with some data (I had something better though but I couldnât find it right now).Â
There are many companies that are doing something like this, but in my country I could count them on one hand and just one is really good in it. My strongest point for this project would be definitely email marketing, which is very strong selling channel (Iâd use MailChimp API integration)... and then front end:).
I guess not many people are aware of things like we can actually measure how many people opened our email, how many people clicked on our links etc. And the most important thing is segmentation (google it | here is an example). I donât know much about it but I will definitely learn it and after the course I will build this project for my country - it is risk free basically and I could learn a lot of things. Once I will have all the templates with all the possibilities to apply for free CV review / and build new one, it wonât be expensive any more and I could have high margin.
Ok ok ok, thatâs enough... we will have plenty of work with the winnersâ ideas and I canât wait for that.

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Week 8 summary - holiday + deploy my app
The last week we spent just three days in our class before going on Christmas holiday. We were still working on our airbnb app and do some improvements. I fixed some bugs I had from the last time when I pushed my app to heroku and I also added some data so now you can search by nearest places or by title / address (& see the beauty haha).
http://air-bnb.herokuapp.com/ - try to search âPenangâ, âMalaysiaâ, âLondonâ, âCyberiaâ ;D
After our class on Wednesday my friend from Hong Kong arrived to KL and the next early morning we were heading to Penang, to the Island of food, for holiday. It was on the Christmas day and we had some issue with our bus. Eventually instead of like 5 hours journey we spent on the roads about 8 hours.
To change a location it could be sometimes very shocking. I felt like that when I arrived to Penang. Dirty, chaos, traffic, smoke everywhere, no clean sea... no Christmas atmosphere at all. I felt quite sad that I couldnât be home and I wrote a status on FB to express my friends that they are lucky they could be together with the closest people (family and friends). This Christmas I really wanted to be home (that was before I got the idea to do the bootcamp as soon as I could:)).
On the other hand at least I was not totally alone and I spent the time with my very international friend May (thank you for that!). Our friendship is quite rare. I hosted her in London through Couchsurfing about a year ago - thatâs how we met. Then 6 months later she hosted me in Hong Kong when I was traveling in Asia. This Christmas she is traveling in Malaysia so we met again and we spent 4 days together in Penang. Who has such a friend? Haha.
So what about Penang? It was very busy, many cars, but the food was really awesome. Here is a pic with some of them - thanks for all the recommendations!
What we did in Penang?Â
day: get some beers, haha
day: Penang hill - climbing because it was such a big queue downstair for the âtrainâ. When we reached the middle, we were so exhausted but lucky - we could take the train from the middle station, yes! + temple and food.
day: Rent a scooter, going to Penang Escape - we are monkeeeeys! And visiting a beach.
day: I moved back to Cyberjaya and May continued to Langkawi.
Thatâs all what I can say. Letâs get back to coding. My todo list for air-bnb:
In userâs registration, there is validation but not errors showing. Have to fix it.
Install bookable gem for booking validation
Hide edit in Booking and Listing + set up authorization
Fix my beautiful jQuery calendar - check-in & check-out as date range + disable booked dates and past dates.
Install gmaps4rails gem to show multilocation and pin the addresses + make it easier than the javascript solution from G maps API
Set up SendGrid email service in Heroku (the gmail works just on localhost right now)
Image gallery in listing
After searching page - bigger pictures in the searched listing + overlay text - name or location
Overlay text - distance in listings/show
Moving the box for booking in listings/show.. scrolling with users till it reach the bottom - it is working, but I am unable to stop it and it does infinity scrolling, haha.
DRY the code, change some html forms to rails forms
Upload slider images to Google photo or Amazon S3(?) to make faster loading
Some pop-up, improve the front end of forms and try to implement some AJAX
Sliders to be mobile friendly - responsive
Favicon + meta tagsÂ
Improve performance and read more about rails app in production
Ufff... lots of work. I will probably leave it as I know what to do and I think I am capable to figure out the solutions for all of the things above. We just started rspec to test our app so I will move my attention into it and the todo list? Hopefully I will have some time after the course to make my air-bnb clone perfect.
Merry Christmaaaas
...to everyone. We have now four days off from 24th to 27th so I am now in Penang to take a bit of rest. But I could tell you straight away that I already miss coding and the course. What I will do on my last day in the class? Letâs not to think about it for now.
The previous day before our holiday we played a fantastic game where we figured out how important is a good communication in teams. I guess not many people think about it more deeply, but the message from the game was very clear - if you communicate badly (overwhelming your team with information etc), it becomes very difficult to finish any project and everything will take ages.Â
I will try to update this later and write more. Here is just a photo - this is the most effective way of communication in a team ;D no disruption and information are passing one by one.
My airbnb website we were working the last couple of days on it is online & you can check it here:
http://air-bnb.herokuapp.com/Â
There are no data so you couldnât check the core functions like searching through nearest places or browsing and booking listings but of course you can easily add the data there through the menu, hehe.Â
It is still unfinished but works pretty well Iâd say. I will write some todo list later what I need to have done.
Enjoy your Christmaaas!