What I learned in Contrast

Hi, I’m Ben McRedmond, a transition year student who spent last week doing work experience in Contrast. Here’s a few things I learned during my week.

• I discovered Eoghan’s extreme dislike of user registration and login forms.
• I learnt that setting yourself deadlines works. I’ve had several projects die because they seemed to drag on forever. By setting myself small personal milestones for each day I got a lot more done.
• However, out of the whole week I think the biggest thing I learnt is how they taught me that “less is more”. To do one thing really well, instead of several things “kinda-okish”. You can always add to what you are making later.

I spent all of last week working on a little app with the guidance from Paul, Eoghan and Des and I am ready to announce it here.

The app is called Picomarks. I came about the idea after looking at all the big social bookmarking tools. Delicious being the most notable. All I want to do is bookmark stuff and for my friends to be able to see what I’ve bookmarked. I don’t want to fill out tags. I don’t want to put in a description. I just want to bookmark stuff.

So that is what Picomarks is all about. Simple and easy bookmarking.

Thanks to The Contrast Lads for such an awesome week.