So those of you that know me are aware that last year I decided to start studying for a master’s degree in Cloud Computing (part-time alongside starting a new job!) and many of you have asked me how it’s going and whether I think it’s been worth it so I thought I’d write a short ...
My thoughts on activity tracking devices
Those of you that know me well are aware that over the past couple of years i've tried out pretty much every fitness tracking device going! I've tried out the Nike fuelband, Jawbone, FitBit (both the Flex and the Charge models!), Apple Watch and now I have the Garmin Vivoactive ... and even now I still ...
With all this buzz about containers, where does PaaS fit in?
DevOps, DevOps & more DevOps – are you sick of hearing it yet? I’ve heard a few different definitions of this but at a high level I’d describe it as bringing together development environments, physical environments and processes to enable apps to be delivered quickly! … it’s containers that is facilitating this! I won’t go into ...
“Information Technology” – This term is outdated!!
Whenever I meet someone new or talk to my non-technical friends and family... when I tell them that I work in "IT" I always get "that look" where you know they are picturing a geek sat in front of a massive screen all day! ... and by the way I'm not even kidding as it's been ...
Celebrating International Women’s day at a Hackathon
Yesterday, on International Women's Day I was lucky enough to be invited to be on the judging panel for the Stemettes Hackathon. There were around 70 girls between the ages of 5-20 that had just 1 or 2 days to design and develop an app based on the theme of 'Networking' and 'Connecting with others'. ...
Can you imagine a life without technology?
I remember the days of dial-up internet, a basic mobile phone and film-based camera's ! Reflecting back I realise that today I take technology for granted, I never bother to look at a physical map (I just ask my iPhone to give me directions!), I'm impatient when my 50MB podcast takes longer than 10 seconds ...
Technology Leadership Academy
A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend the Technology Leadership Academy ran by everywomen (if you are interested the event info is here). It was great to take a day out to focus specifically on personal development, the day focused on "re-inventing" ourselves, we know that business is changing but we are failing ...
Software is changing the world
Software is disrupting every industry and today is the biggest differentiator! Your sick of hearing about how Netflix disrupted the media industry but ultimately this has been a wake up call for many organizations. We all know and love the traditional software development lifecycles where every couple of years we see a significant update (often difficult for ...