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Running a Weekly Newsletter – 7 Things We’ve Learned
→: Running a Weekly Newsletter – 7 Things We’ve LearnedChiu-Ki and I have been running Technically Speaking for 6 months now. Neither of us had run a newsletter before, and we learned a number of things along the way! Here are the 7 I’ve found most important. 1. Shared Values What the values are is going to get a post of it’s own, but…
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Book: Confessions of a Public Speaker
→: Book: Confessions of a Public SpeakerI kept meaning to buy Confessions of a Public Speaker (Amazon) because I read his blog, and I finally got around to it. Part of the reason I was slow to buy it was because I think I ingest all the speaking advice I can already. Turns out, this book is mostly not advice –…
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Book: The Eloquent Woman’s Guide to Moderating Panels
→: Book: The Eloquent Woman’s Guide to Moderating PanelsAs a long time reader of The Eloquent Woman blog, of course I bought Denise’s book, The Eloquent Woman’s Guide to Moderating Panels (Amazon) almost as soon as it came out, and only waited a couple of weeks to read it! I’m not a fan of panels because so often they are bad, so it’s great to…
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NSConf: Scott Little – Ultimate Spirit
→: NSConf: Scott Little – Ultimate SpiritMy notes from Scott Little‘s talk at NSConf. Real training was in zoology. What ultimately drives this independent developer and keeps me focused and motivated? Most of life been an ultimate frisbee player. At least as much a part of him as being a developer. Started to think about linking how frisbee is important to…
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NSConf: Jamie Newbury – Design Skills that Saved My Life
→: NSConf: Jamie Newbury – Design Skills that Saved My LifeMy notes from @jaimeejaimee‘s fantastic talk at @NSConf. We’re going to talk about burnout. Before graduated college was dishwasher, waitress, heavy equipment washer, pilot car driver, sign painter, production assistant, bank teller, park ranger, metal sculpture (that was degree). After graduated realised need to figure out what to do for a living. Decided to be…
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The Year of Being Visible
→: The Year of Being VisibleWhen I decided it was time to leave my corporate tech job, I made an 18 month plan. One key item on it: speaking at conferences. I prepped one talk (building it off some of my more popular blog posts), and submitted it to a number of places, hoping it would be accepted at one…
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iOSNext: Paul Ardeleanu – 10 Reasons You’ll Love Swift
→: iOSNext: Paul Ardeleanu – 10 Reasons You’ll Love SwiftMy notes from Paul‘s talk at iOSNext. TIOBE Index for Nov 2014 – Swift is at #18. A language that is 5 months old – more popular than Scala, Haskell… Fortran! Proven to be quite a hit with developers, and there are reasons for that. Why do we have a new programming language? What is…
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The Woman Speaker Slot
→: The Woman Speaker SlotI read a lot about how important it is to get more women speakers (and PoC!) at tech conferences, and I agree it’s important. But one of the things I’ve found as a speaker, who is also a woman, is that I get invitations to fill what I refer to as “the woman speaker slot”.…
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#iOSDevUK – Luke Rogers: The Logic of App Design
→: #iOSDevUK – Luke Rogers: The Logic of App DesignDesign is a skill you can learn, the same way development is a skill you can learn. Design is not about making it look pretty, small percentage of it. About working out hierarchy, working out what is important. Brainstorm what the user should be able to do. Not “have analytics” Instead “watch a video” Order…