Programming
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Software Engineers Aren’t Normal
→: Software Engineers Aren’t NormalTechies often try and do design (I am also guilty of this), and typically they design for themselves. I don’t think this is uncommon – a lot of people think they would be a good product manager based on little or no evidence, for example. However with techies, there are three common areas where they make…
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Passion and the Developer
→: Passion and the DeveloperI go to a startup event, and it’s interesting to hear non-technical people talking about developers like over-priced commodities. L comes to me for advice, she’s contemplating her next move and worrying about whether or not she feels passion for the project. C reads my blog, tells me that she can tell I’m passionate about writing from my writing. I say,…
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Time Blocking
→: Time BlockingThe thing about knowing more about what you’re doing, is that more people want to talk to you about it, and you have less and less time to actually… do it. And so people block their calendars with “Do not Schedule” and “Make Time!” and presumably try to be diligent about actually enforcing this. But…
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I Used To Make Apps
→: I Used To Make AppsIn my copious amounts of spare time, I’m been playing with iOS lately (some actual coding posts coming soon, I hope). It’s fun, how quickly I can pull together a framework for an app. The satisfaction of something appearing, that didn’t used to be there. It’s that feeling of making. I miss it. I miss the…
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ModevUX: Turning the Ship Overnight: A Responsive Retrofit at an Enterprise Scale
→: ModevUX: Turning the Ship Overnight: A Responsive Retrofit at an Enterprise ScaleTalk from Capital One on moving their 2,500 page site to be mobile optimised. My Takeaway They drove mobile traffic up from 4%, to 40% in a year. My main shock here was that anyone was seeing mobile traffic as low as 4% in mid-2013. Given general internet trends, mobile traffic much below 40% is…
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The Care and Feeding of Interns
→: The Care and Feeding of InternsInternships are often billed as a “3 month job interview”, but from the other side they are a 3 month stint in being a people manager, and the first opportunity people have to have a real impact on someone else’s career. This can be in a good way – the internship that makes the intern feel…
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→: (…)I’ve been in a bit of an emotional funk for the last week or so, and I really wanted to snap out of it this weekend. I made myself go to the gym, and that didn’t work (actually I felt worse). I wrote something, but concluded it was rubbish. I went on an adventure with…
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Python Programming With Little Stemettes
→: Python Programming With Little StemettesSlightly last minute, I found myself putting together a workshop in python for a Stemettes event. The constraints: It has to be in python. I don’t really code in python much (light scripting, which I don’t do much of). It has to relate to banking. There are lots of people coming to help. These people do not…
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Teaching Chaos
→: Teaching ChaosMy friend Linda teaches drawing at University (amongst a wide assortment of things), and she was explaining a fascinating exercise to me. Requirements: white paper, charcoal, eraser, glue stick & tolerance for dirt. This is all about developing lots of strategies for recovering from errors and changes, and stumbling upon expressive, aggressive marks and effects…