Eric Allam

Eric Allam

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ABOUT ME
A UX-focused developer and product tinkerer who wants to help developers & companies create things that people love
A UX-focused developer and product tinkerer who wants to help developers & companies create things that people love

I still have fond memories of a Saturday morning spent at a local bookstore's technology section, grabbing a book off the shelf, taking it home, and devouring it. That feeling of learning something brand new, of gaining a new almost-super-power, still drives me today. I love learning new things, and when I co-founded Code School, I discovered that teaching people new things was even better.

I'm here to lend whatever experience & expertise I've accrued over the years (which are starting to add up too fast).

I still love the little details of what it takes to build a great application, at all levels.

Where I feel I can be most helpful though are with big architectural decisions that can have a massive effect on product quality and productivity for years. You don't know what you don't know, after-all, and I'm pretty good at helping to see around corners and helping avoid common pitfalls.

English
London (+01:00)
Joined January 2017
EXPERTISE
10 years experience
I've been building production Ruby on Rails apps since 2006, first at Izea Inc, and then at Envy Labs, where I created Rails for Zombies....
I've been building production Ruby on Rails apps since 2006, first at Izea Inc, and then at Envy Labs, where I created Rails for Zombies. From there I co-founded Code School where I helped teach thousands of new developers Ruby. I'm also proud to say I helped recreate _why's TryRuby.org. Currently I am building a Ruby on Rails 5 app on AWS for a startup in the UK called Football Survivor.
10 years experience
I've been writing Javascript on the web since 2006, but I really fell in love with it in the course of building Code School and teaching ...
I've been writing Javascript on the web since 2006, but I really fell in love with it in the course of building Code School and teaching thousands of developers about Javascript, jQuery, Backbone.js, and Node.js, and all used extensively to help build Code School.
6 years experience
I wrote my first iOS app back for iPhone OS 2.0 (the app was called Twitfire. It worked but was ugly as sin). After a short hiatus I got ...
I wrote my first iOS app back for iPhone OS 2.0 (the app was called Twitfire. It worked but was ugly as sin). After a short hiatus I got back on the iOS train when I created the Try iOS series of courses for Code School, a company I co-founded in 2010. Because of a successful Kickstarter campaign, we were able to create courses like Try iOS and Try Objective-C to help thousands of people learn Objective-C and iOS. Since then I have developed the iOS game Qiktionary, a Objective-C/Sprite Kit game originally developed for iOS 8. I've given talks on iOS at UIKonf and NSLondon, and sometimes write on the topic at initwithfunk.com

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