Investment Saving and Investment Money is something we are all familiar with but may take for granted. Learn how to save and invest so that your nest egg can grow and take care of itself.
Health and Wellbeing Coping With Insomnia Telling my inner voice to be quiet is my latest tactic to cope with intermittent bouts of insomnia I get and it is proving quite effective.
Tech Shorts Kotlin to Java Differences This posts collects some of the stumbling blocks Java developers might hit as they begin to transition to Kotlin.
Tech Shorts Kotlin: Final Points Kotlin is one of the newest members of the JVM family and it is taking the Java world by storm. Why do so many Java developers love this new language?
Tech Shorts More Kotlin Lovin’ More things that I like about Kotlin coming from a Java background. Why are so many Java developers falling in love with this new language?
Tech Shorts Why Kotlin? Kotlin is the new kid on the block in terms of JVM based languages, but what is making this newcomer convert Java developers where others have not?
Book Review Review: The Art of Invisibility Kevin Mitnick’s book details how you can remain totally invisible online. Even if that is not for you, it has many privacy tips you should know about.
Setting Up a Company in Ireland A company can provide access to lower tax rates and provide protection for personal assets from creditors. But is it worth setting up a company in Ireland?
Tech Shorts Angular Navigation and Routing Angular single page applications can use the Router extension to give the appearance of multiple pages but without additional HTTP get requests being sent.
Health and Wellbeing Positive Things About Working From Home Focusing on the positives of a situation, especially a trying one such as the COVID-19 epidemic, can be good therapy. I’d like to share my silver lining.
Tech Shorts Filtering the Movies (Angular) Angular allows the creation of a pipe element that can be used to dynamically filter a list of items allowing dynamic changes to the page content.
Tech Shorts Package and Deploy the Angular App With the basic Angular app created in the last post, let’s see how easy it is to package and deploy it to a server with Nginx managing connections.
Tech Shorts Quick Angular Website I dipped my toe into angular and was able to quickly build a static website with some responsive features. This post shares what I learned.
Blog Setup Installing a CloudFlare Origin CA CloudFlare offers free certificates to secure traffic between its CDN and your website. Using this allows using Full (String) SSL/TLS.
Blog Setup Ghost Upgrade Software changes fast in the modern world and keeping up-to-date can be difficult. Having left this site on an old version it needs to get attention now.
Tech Shorts Variables in JavaScript When declaring variables in JavaScript, especially when coming from a Java background, there are a few things to be aware of. Here are a few notes I took.
Tech Shorts Numbers and Strings in JavaScript This is the first of a series of short posts about languages, patterns, frameworks or technologies that I have been exposed to recently for the first time.
Health and Wellbeing Life Without an Alarm Clock Recently I have focused on getting enough quality sleep each night. An interesting side effect of doing so, is that my alarm clock is no longer needed.
Software-Engineer Leaving a Job Part Two So you are leaving your job as a software engineer and want to leave a lasting impression of professionalism; how exactly does one do that?
Software-Engineer Leaving a Job on Good Terms Once you have accepted a new offer, how should you spend your notice period in your current job? Furiously busy to finish projects or gazing out the window?
Book Review Review: Quiet Are you an introvert or extrovert? Do you have the same personality as your partner and does this matter? How can you best work with people of the opposite type?
Book Review Review: The Year Without Pants A year in the life of Scott Berkun as he rejoined the workforce in a new type of company; one where most interactions between staff occur on-line.
Software-Engineer Behavioural Interview Questions Even when applying for technical positions, you may need to answer what are known as behavioural questions; they can be tricky without adequate preparation.
Book Review Review: The 12 Week Year Imagine you could condense a year of focused activity into just twelve weeks. What you could achieve if you strung several such 12-week blocks together?
Software-Engineer The Coding Interview There is a rich and varied job market out there for software engineers. To access it you will first have to navigate and excel at the coding interview.
