So, I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, of how much information we keep online and retention of online profiles. It’s highlighted a lot because of recent cases in the press of people being called out on things that people have said in previ...
this post is based on the less framework website https://less.works/ So working in a team and using scrum mastery, the team has grown, initially the team was 9 people (making it big enough for a normal scrum team, however then it suddenly ballooned t...
Ok, so I’ve done a lot of training on scrum mastery recently and I’ve recently been given a team to work with as a scrum master. I’ve Also been working with a brilliant coach who I’ve been using as sounding board for some of my ideas. I’m going to tr...
So, I’ve up-skilled, I’ve been teaching using scrum methodologies, I can knock out and A-level computing project in a week and my code is clean. I’ve also learned to translate my code into different languages (JS, C#, Java to name a few), I’ve even d...
So I decided about 12 months before I left teaching I was going to move. I took kids to careers fairs (then walked around myself asking questions), I started getting serious about my code…. Getting serious with code I always said, I’d never give my ...
So, I started teaching to do some good. I was a PHP programmer and IT support in a small company in the north west and was spending a lot of time working with the junior programmers to learn the basics (at that time the basics were HTML, CSS, a bit o...
This is a blog post about my experiences moving from a teaching career in computing to working in that industry as a software developer. It is an opinion piece, I realise that there will be some sections of this you may disagree with and that’s fine....