Bugsie is coming together!
I have to apologize for the recent lack of blog activity, but no worries, my internship here at DO has been going quite well! I’ve had the opportunity to do everything I had hoped in the field of web development and a whole lot more, and I can imagine that there will be much more to come. Next week Incubagency will expand as two new interns join me here at Digital Operative in the areas of marketing and design. I’m definitely excited to see what the three of us can churn out over the next month, and definitely ready to put the skills I’ve gained so far to use.
My inital project (now dev named Bugsie) has provided me with a great foundation for developing websites, giving me the opportunity to work with many common languages and libraries used in the creation of fully-featured web applications. I’ve gotten to truly see what it takes to bring a project from a set of requirements to a functional website, and the wide array of knowledge and experience required to create something that does your initial expectations justice.
Bugsie’s original concept as a to-do item board has grown and changed throughout its development, and looking back, I can hardly believe that I was the one to put all the parts together. Bugsie now has support for administrating users, project permissions, managing email updates, comments, attachments and much more! I know I’m gloating, but I can’t help but try to sell my own product! 
Some of you may notice why I’m so happy to have a design intern starting soon.
With the Bugsie website almost completed, I’ve gotten the chance to really get to work on something I had imagined I might only touch lightly on this summer: an Android application. BugsieMobile, as I’ve cleverly named it, is the next big step in my work for Incubagency. Even though the application is only in its infancy, I’m excited to see how the Bugsie enterprise will come together in the end.
Being introduced to so many new concepts over such a short period of time has most definitely kept me on my toes, but so far has been exactly the type of rewarding experience I had hoped for. No amount of schooling can compare to applicable knowledge, something I’m exposed to on a daily basis here at DO.
Keeping up with your posts, good luck with Bugsie!
Good post Chris! Glad to see you’re having fun and maybe you can share some of your experience with people back at school, even the professors