Gadget girl, Tech Lover, Baker & Running enthusiast
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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'. ...
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 ...
Last week I was lucky enough to join a group of 14 women from across EMC UK&I at the Women of the future conference where there were over 300 attendees from a variety of global organizations - It was a really interesting day and I thought i'd share some of my key takeaways. The theme for ...
I nearly lost 10 years worth of data (& I work for a company that sells backup solutions!) NEVER under estimate the importance of having a backup!!!! ... and I don't just mean 1-copy, I had a backup of my data on an external hard-drive but I somehow managed to drop this at the same time ...
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 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 ...