It has been around three years now, since I started my internship at Studio 24.
Studio 24 is a Cambrigde (UK) based web agency with over 10 years of expierence, happy to share their knowledge with students willing to learn.
In the last year of my training MCT at Howest (University College West Flanders), I decided to do my internship abroad, so I ended up in the beautiful Cambridge for over 3 months.
With the support of my house mates Leena (SE), Chris (AU), Matthew (UK) & Alex (UK) and my bosses/colleagues Simon, Jonathan, Richard, Edward, David, Dave & Gaƫlle, I found my way through Cambridge and the professional web world.
A lot of what I learned in those 3 months, I still use and advocate/implement in my current company. Some examples of technologies, procedures, software, etc… I discoverd or worked with:
- Subversion
- Zend Framework
- DNS
- Wiki
- Basecamp
- CMS
- Web standards & W3C
- Correct CSS (and slicing)
- Correct HTML
- SOAP
- Dealing with customers
- Etc…
Using all these things and the variaty of customers Studio 24 has, resulted in an astonishing list of projects I worked on. So much, I only could use a thirth of them in my presentation for the jury back at home.
Here’s an extraction:
- Cambridge Film Festival
- Klick TV
- RealVNC
- Zeus Technology
- Smaller projects for the Cambridge City Council
- Etc…
I had a great time, and encourage every student to have a look at the Lifelon Learning programme of the EU, which helped me pay for my accommodation.
Looking back, I’m glad everyone around me ‘pushed’ me in the Cambridge adventure and I would do it again, if I had the change!