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• February 23, 2021

  Figuring Out Scrum: Sizing User Stories

  If you are working for a company that follows the Scrum methodology, this post will be familiar. If you don’t, then you’ll probably see how you can introduce it into your work. One of my favourite books, which I found when I started coding, was “The art of doing twice the work in half the…
• February 21, 2021

  What A Software Developer Should Do On The Weekend

  I remember I was once sat in a meeting with a senior developer and asked what I do in my free time. At this point I had been a software developer for around a year. The question through me and I probably mumbled a few general things, because really I hate being asked questions when…
• February 15, 2021

  TH.0 GovTech Virtual Hackathon Day Two

  8 am Oops. Another morning. Another lie-in. I have some vague dream-like memory of my early alarm going off at 6 am, but I knew straight away there was no chance I’d be getting up again. By the time the Team Regroup chat started at 8 am, I just decided to dial in from the…
• February 7, 2021

  Twitter Conversations: Hurdles to a Dev Career

  One of the main things I enjoy about being a developer is the Twitter community. Mostly the conversations which can come out of it. For example, last weekend, I decided to tweet about what hurdles people might have faced and why they chose to not pursue a coding career straight out of school. It has made:2,692 impressions140…
• February 6, 2021

  Play some Code Wars with me

  Though unfortunately blogs don’t make it easy to play along so how about you read with me. I’ll also paste the link to the kata I’m going to be working on at the top. If you want to try it yourself before you read my solution let me know in the comments how you got…