Blockchain 101
Starting at the beginning, what is blockchain?
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Photobooth Moviemaker
At Rails Girls London Winter 2017, we had a photo booth for the first time. Beside being lots of fun. While flicking though the images I thought they’d look good as a video.
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Mistakes I’ve made in my career (so far)
For this Rails Girls London. It seemed like an idea (still not sure it was a good one) to look back on my career to date.
Ada Lovelace Day – Jessica Rose
Besides a dayjob, running a podcast, which is well worth a listen, Making sure everyone has pockets, helping setting up OpenCode and Trans*Code, still find the time to write articles, give talks plus run seessions for folks just starting out in tech
Some people generally has way too much energy. I suspect clones. If all that isn’t inspiring, I don’t know what is.
Join Us
This is a counterpart to my talk at Rail Girls London 7 and blog post on recruitment from the candidate side. I’m writing the notes down so I don’t forget them next time I’m in the same situation.
Last year I found myself running recruitment for the development team. It was very much a learning process. Having only helped out in a few interviews in the past. My biggest takeaway, even to do an average job requires a good deal of work. I still have a huge amount to learn.
Building Products With Kent Beck
I went north up to Euston to Facebook London to hear Mike Perrow and Kent Beck talk about building products.
Mike kicked things off, talking about building and shipping Workplace. The most interesting part was using the War room model when they launched.
The main talk was Kent Beck. Talking about 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract. Covering the shifting risk profile of software product development as products mature.
Looking back at 2016
Looking back over the last year
Knowing enough to be dangerous
For this Rails Girls London I wanted to talk about not needing to be an expert to solve real world problems.
Ada Lovelace Day – Thayer Prime
Entrepreneurs and startups seem to be our new heroes but most of the people you read about are male. This is especially true of CEO’s and other senior managers. Much better informed people than me have written about why this is a problem and how we can go about fixing it.
I thought it would be worth highlighting one of the women in a senior position that have inspired me, Thayer Prime, who beside having just the best name, is currently CEO and founder of Team Prime and Primed.is.
She started in technology as a developer but moved on to running multiple successful startups, helped many well-known company’s and organisations. In addition to all that she has also run a wonderful conference, some very enjoyable christmas parties and mentored people new to the London tech scene. She managed to find the time to ran a marathon.
One of the biggest thing that continues to inspire me, is the way she does business differently, giving to charity via her company, not working all hours, spending time with her family. More people should follow her example
Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?
In my day job one of things I spent a lot of time on is recruitment. So when I was asked if I wanted to talk at Rail Girls London 7, something around hiring was the natural choice.