Chris Dermody

Web developer portfolio generator - early preview

So, if you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve been going a bit crazy lately building free web developer portfolio templates for Redditors. As with everything I do, I’ve been looking at ways to automate it, and since I love building things anyways, I’ve decided

7 tips for building a web developer portfolio that employers and recruiters will love

Update: I've built a web app that lets you build an awesome developer portfolio in minutes using your GitHub profile. Check it out and let me know what you think: mydevportfol.io In this post, I’ll talk about how to build web development portfolio that lands you

Web Developer Portfolios - free templates for developers and programmers to show off their work with GitHub pages

In this post I discuss three free templates I created for developers and programmers to use to show off their skills and impress recruiters

How I made €20,000 on the side by selling second-hand cardboard boxes

Yep. You read that right, I made money selling used cardboard boxes. It sounds ridiculous, and it is, which is why I love telling this story. It was one of my earlier lessons in business, entrepreneurship, web development, and luck. I learned a huge amount from this side-business, but the

Micro-Project - A HubSpot friend asked me for a script to parse XML sitemaps, so I built him a web app...

TL;DR The tool I built in 4 hours to extract all URLs from a site’s sitemap.xml file A good friend of mine, Craig Ellis, is a Sales Engineer in HubSpot. I recently built him a project that helped showcase the power of HubSpot’s API to potential

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