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Don’t Be Afraid to Break Things

Our front end developer intern Patrick O'Boyle shares his experience of learning to feel the shipping fear and commit anyway... One of the more common things I hear from intern developers, and have experienced myself, is being afraid to push code. There are a lot of reasons new developers are scared to share their code. Some haven’t deployed before, »

Get to Know... Steve

We hope you've been enjoying getting to know the MiniCorp team! This week, we introduce you to the Steve Thornton, our senior software engineer. What I do at MiniCorp: Primarily I’m a software developer, working mostly with Ruby on Rails and iOS. I also work on our DevOps stuff with the goal of making developer life easier via continuous »

Top 5 Snapchatters with Business Hustle

MiniCorp CEO Brian Kenny shares his pick of the Snapchat litter... Snapchat has become a major outlet for me to deliver as much free advice to my audience as possible. It offers a service where, like a regularly scheduled broadcast, I'm intimately connected with my viewer. No other network has provided this (though Instagram has started trying) and it's something »

Welcome, Patrick!

Summers are for fun in the sun... and getting it done. We're delighted to have TCD student Patrick O'Boyle join us as a front end developer intern for the next couple of months. Patrick grew up in Mayo, and after living by the coast all his life, he moved to Dublin two years ago to study Computer Science, where he »