Category: Study

  • Scala Central meetup talk – Learning Scala as an Engineering Manager

    Scala Central meetup talk – Learning Scala as an Engineering Manager

    Below is the video of my debut meetup talk given at the Medidata Hammersmith office who hosted the Scala Central meetup on 2nd August. The talk was titled – Learning Scala as an Engineering Manager. The slides are here. Below are links mentioned during the talk: Coursera The Functional Programming Principles in Scala References, Handbooks,…

  • Lunchtime conference talks

    Lunchtime conference talks

    How often do you go to conferences? Going to 2 one day conferences in a single year is my record! Although there are hundreds of tech conferences each year we often don’t get the chance to go to everyone we would like. On the positive side, most of the talks are recorded and shared online…

  • Which area do you need to improve?

    Which area do you need to improve?

    We’re all trying to improve ourselves…right? Our grand plans that the beginning of the year may already be a distant memory, but there is always time to re-focus and improve one or more areas. Harvard Business Review wrote – The 8 Self-Assessments You Need to Improve at Work This Year – that covers all different…

  • Setting the right focus for 2016

    Setting the right focus for 2016

    It’s that time of year when keep-fit DVDs and weight-loss programs are everywhere we look! There is no hiding from adverts showing us how we can have a healthier lifestyle. It has been many years since I’ve made a New Year’s resolution, I cannot remember how I got on; probably not too successfully! I think…

  • Transitioning from developer to manager

    Transitioning from developer to manager

    Here are a couple of resources that might be useful when transitioning from a developer role into management. I never put a plan together when I made the transition, even though I knew that management was the correct career path for me, a plan would have helped! Just visualizing progress and having more of a…

  • What are you reading?

    What are you reading?

    Reading was never something I enjoyed growing up, I lost interest too easily and never finished any books. In my late teens I started reading horror books, I enjoyed those! At one point I got through all of James Herbert’s and most of Clive Barker’s books. I’m not sure what it was about horror books…