Christmas is nearly here! Are you ready for the season of gift giving? No? I’m disappointed to say that neither am I this year. Present “shopping” is being saved thankfully because of Amazon Prime and other retailers. Either those that have physical stores or just an internet home, are delivering …
The best work bag I’ve had so far? Easy! The Knomo London Curzon laptop bag. Over the last 12 months I’ve gone through three work bags. When I had to change my work bag earlier this year, I decided to put a bit more research into my purchase. The Criteria …
As a mum of one who commutes to my full-time day job five days a week, I would love for the day to be longer so I could spend more time with my husband, play with my daughter or just sleep. Sadly, this isn’t possible. We have only a finite …
New Year’s resolutions are goals that many of us are very familiar with and try to achieve. We all have high ambitions at the beginning of the year to complete these goals within a year. Sadly, the truth is that many people fail or fall behind with these goals as …
I’ve started enforcing the “time blocking” method into my calendar to ensure I consistently improve on my skills during the week (weekends are reserved for family time currently). At the moment, this is done for 30 minutes a day and set as events in my Google Calendar. I’ve scheduled this …
I took the ISTQB-ISEB Certified Tester Foundation Level exam on 20th April 2013. My Technique Back then, I revised for the exam by reading the (second edition) book through twice making notes the second time through. And as I was commuting four hours a day (true facts!), I had a set of practice …
I decided to read Strong Woman because I was interested in learning more about Karren Brady. Before reading this book, I only knew Karren Brady from watching the yearly BBC show The Apprentice. I wasn’t aware of her long history within football or how similar her experiences within this industry …
I’ve been a subscriber to the audio book platform Audible by Amazon since September 2012. But since May 2017 I’ve been listening to audio books every week as well as my podcasts in order expand my learning. I enjoy Audible because of their massive library. So if I’m in the …
Last night, I went to the DevelopHer Reboot your Personal Brand, how to stand out in 2019 event. It was held at Syzygy in London who put on a nice selection of vegan, vegetarian food and drinks. Event Space and Organisers The Syzygy office was light, modern and really …
Here’s my last post which appeared first on Simple Programmer. This year I was asked to write the 2018 Gift Guide for Programmers. While in my day job I’m not a programmer, I do consider myself a developer, I’m pretty versed in most things tech and I’m exposed to cutting …
