The world of freelance web development is rife with stories of people who make hundreds of thousands of euros a year while working half-days from the comfort of their sofas. The reality of this industry is, predictably, a little more sobering. While freelance web development can certainly be a gold…

Yuki Grosbüsch had fulfilled her dream of opening a Café. Could she break into programming next? The sun-drenched slopes of Madeira, encircled by the North Atlantic, are not the sort of place where anyone would expect to plunge into an existential crisis. …

Strap in, big news, & let’s get right to them — as of March 2023, WBS CODING SCHOOL is officially a partner of WomenTech Network, one of the leading global communities for women in tech. Gender equality in tech, and inclusivity and diversity in general, are value pillars as well…

This article was written for those who think they do not need this article. All right, more specifically — this article was written for anyone who is thinking of taking a bootcamp, to help them in the surprisingly difficult task of managing their expectations. In spite of the growing popularity…

In the conclusion to our December analysis of the tech layoffs of 2022, we warned that there was no way of knowing if the phenomenon was over yet. The month of January 2023 has now confirmed the need to be cautious about discussing these events in the past tense, as…

Worried by the rapid obsolescence of my skills as a copy-writer in the age of ChatGPT, last year I decided to upskill within the coding school I work for — the folks whose name you can read up there as the, ahem, “author” of this article — and I signed…

At the beginning of the year 2022, tech looked like one of the most resilient of all industries in the global economy. …

If you work in marketing, you may have heard the oft-repeated mantra that MarTech — the collection of new software tools with applications in marketing — is “the future”. Yet what does this mean in practice? In this article, we would like to illustrate the above statement by means of…

The object of this article will be an overview of this past year’s major trends and developments in the subset of the tech industry that works with Artificial Intelligence. We are primarily interested in AI as an industry rather than as a field of scientific research, so we will be…