Technical CV writing is hard
Recruiting people is effing hard! That’s all… I’ll get back to reading through CVs now and let you get on with your day! Medicines Discovery Catapult is, at the time of writing, recruiting Software Engineers, and as …
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Dell DisplayLink D6000 & Ubuntu 18.04+ Issues
I love Ubuntu… I’m pretty fond of dell kit too! So I was rather chuffed when I started working at Medicines Discovery Catapult because they let me have both. When you look at my desk it looks like it could be an advert …
A reboot and a legacy moniker
So… my last post was a good 2 years ago now…. Hi how have you been? It’s been a very busy couple of years with a lot of stuff shifting in my personal life meaning things inevitably take a back seat. However its been long …
Project Slayer: The Critical Path
The first of my new round of talk abstracts! In all honesty this isn’t a talk but something more that came out of a very drunken Saturday night at #phpbnl19. There were a bunch of us sat talking and somehow the topic of …
Monty Python explains why your project failed!
As part of the attempt to develop my profile as a speaker, I’ve realised that I sometimes need to explain a few of my current talk abstracts a bit too much. This is mainly due to my lack of experience writing them and …
Are you a Good Code Scout? - NomadPHP lightning talk video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt0lnauF5lI Just before the Christmas period I was lucky enough to be able to give my “Are you a good Code Scout?” talk as a lightning talk for NomadPHP. Here is the video that was …
Using Gmail aliases with Evolution
If your anything like me you have a large number of email aliases that you use with Gmail which is great. However I use Evolution as a mail client more often than not when using Gnome3 as a desktop. It’s very easy to set …
A metaphor about PSR-7 and Middleware for non-developers
Never one to shy away from coming up with a metaphor for explaining something technical I found myself having to come up with one on the spot for PSR-7 and Middleware while at the recent PHPNW15 Conference. Normally my …
Badges & Stickers
One of the most prominent things I’ve been asked about regarding my promoting being a Good Code Scout, is where can we get the badges? Following on from a number of questions and subsequent tweets about it …
Wow... What a Conference
So I attended the PHPNW15 conference this weekend and what a weekend. I’ve been an attendee of the conference for a number of years and have always enjoyed it immensely. However this year turned out to be something …