Meeting prep with Freeplane and OmniFocus
TLDR; After having to switch to Freeplane after a Mac font upgrade I discovered a useful feature where you can ‘deep link’ to a specific node. This is a great…
Whizlabs Black Friday Sale
Here be affiliate links – but also here be sales prices! I’m not going to try and hard-sell anything, because I have mentioned the benefits of training materials elsewhere on…
AWS DevOps Certification Exam Mindmap
My first cut at the AWS Exam. Putting the links together with images to get me started on the connections I need. Let’s see how this goes.
How to succeed in your first software development job
TLDR; tips below on some of the unexpected parts of software development, and I have a book out. Free sample of that here. As I have improved in my career,…
Why you’re struggling to finish a development project
I recently answered a question that interested me on Quora, “What is the number one reason most developers never finish a personal project?” If you’re struggling to finish a development…
Don’t let Slack kill your productivity
Most recently I have found my role almost being one of a mini-project manager. I’m helping out with an uplift of some assets into Docker containers at work, pretty standard…
Mental Models
I just finished reading an excellent article on mental models here. There are so many models that we could look into, but the article here gives 4 as a taster.…
Make it Stick – Tim Fellows Case Study
In others articles you may have seen that I have got a lot of value out of ‘Make it Stick‘ in building my learning plans/confirming that I’m designing my learning…
Using the Pomodoro Technique for Estimations
I have based this answer off one I originally gave on Quora, and have repurposed parts of it to make it more relevant to Developers. For those of you that…
Make it Stick – some learning techniques
I’ve previously written about the excellent ‘Make it Stick’ and it was well overdue another read. I focused on the practical case studies that were included towards the book. The…