Edinburgh
Edinburgh Christmas Market
We went to Edinburgh and had a look round the xmas market – we stayed at the Premier inn, in Leith (thanks Jane) The christmas market was very busy, and it rained (it always seems to rain in Edinburgh) but we had mulled wine and mulled cider, a german sausage Read more…
fitness
Umidigi Smart Watch
I picked up a (very) cheap umidigi smart watch from amazon It has a ton of features, but isnt androidwear, so its a bit limited That said, it has heart rate measurement, weather, step counter, sleep counter, it can alert you to facebook and whatsapp messages (and you can read Read more…
Turing Fest 2019
Emergent Architecture for Mobile Applications
use domain driven design (common in microservice architectires)use DRYexisting code exerts a powerful influence! people try to copy the existing code – it backs you into a corner.write tests. always.refactor. always.refactor tests too. think of tests as i/o something in, something else out.
Turing Fest 2019
The secret to scaling engineering teams
make users feel smart, not stupidfreeagent – bought over by RBSThey are a tech company, so have a strong engineering team1. Hiring is #1the hiring process needs to be good – there is a huge portion needed o be dedicated (eg 50%)Glassdoor is watching you.progression.fyiannual salary reviewshave clear progression pathways Read more…
Turing Fest 2019
The Skateboard: Product perfection
in skateboarding its about competing with yourself (personal development)
Turing Fest 2019
Unmasking Imposter Syndrome
people though ‘only girls have this’ and lots of people though it wasnt even a thing. everyone stood up when asked of they had experienced what was on screen Don’t believe everything you think. your self talk is killing you! write a list of all the negatives then write the Read more…
Turing Fest 2019
You got served: How deliveroo improved the ranking of restaurants
Jonny Brooks-Bartlett – Data Scientist at deliveroo They use predictive modelling and machine learning. Their hypothesis is “if they can show you more relevant places you will spend money” given a list of restaurants, can they rank them optimally how do they quantify that? how do you turn that into Read more…
Turing Fest 2019
Unicorns, Ice Cream and Puking Rainbows
seaker from spotify. does your product need repositioned? understand how you want people to think about you in the marketplace positioning isnt something you make up, its something that you find by looking where you are – by analysing inputs channel integrations are massive for spotify plus dont have a Read more…
Turing Fest 2019
What happens when everybody’s website is fixed
by jonoalderson Everything is changing, except peoples businesses.
Turing Fest 2019
Online Experimentation
talk by split experimentleaks.com use data to drive the decisions. A/B testing, multivariant – controlled experiments reduce external influences. it can allow us to distinguish from noise and real signal. measure ‘statistically significant’ detecting something meaningful. errors: false positives + false negatives design like you are right, test like you Read more…
Turing Fest 2019
Hack the Stack – 5 ways to automate like a human
all about marketing automation, audiences, ad formats, programmatic creative content, client/consumer intent what things not to do :D Programattic is all about generating the content automatically based on the data available, automaticaly. split each ad into components an vary them, sort of like a/b testing but for ads automatically
Turing Fest 2019
Security – Tackling the hard problems
This is a quick chat from David Irvine, CEO of MadeSafe The world forces us to change. Private and public info is everywhere now. It was fine, till the companies started to map the data and use it to craft their algorithms. Server based infrastructure is the easiest way that Read more…
Technology
Turingfest 2019
Today Im in Edinburgh, at TuringFest 2019It took an age to find a space to park, so I missed the first and most of the second talks – I managed to grab 10 mins at the end of a talk to get me started
London
Bath to Liverpool
We drove from Monkton Farleigh to Bath and had breakfast in the retro cafe. We then drove from Bath to Liverpool. We stayed at the Park Hotel in Aintree – we got a train from Aintree to Moorfields and went to Viva Brasil
London
Royal Tumbridge Wells to Bath
We drove from Tumbridge Wells to Bath. We got stuck in traffic on the M25 for 40 mins. We stayed the night at the Kings Arms in Monkton Farleigh, 5 miles outside Bath
London
Strood to Royal Tunbridge Wells
After driving down the motorway from Glasgow, we stayed at my brothers in Strood After 3 days in strood we drove down to Tunbridge where we will be staying at Zoes sisters for the next couple of days
London
Driving from Glasgow to Kent
We are driving from Glasgow to Kent to see my brother and his family, and Zoes sister and her family in Kent.Its the first time Im driving down, so we decided to stay the night at a hotel in Preston to break the journey. We had full English breakfast and Read more…
CYBERUK19
CYBERUK19
All in all I had a great day at CYBERUK19 in Glasgow. I picked up a load of goodies and had very interesting conversations with a lot of interesting people. I’m looking forward to implementing some of the things I discovered and using some of the things I got (webcam Read more…
CYBERUK19
NCSC Excercise in a box launch
Online tool to help you judge your cyber resilience and provide training The tool is available on the NCSC website. It’s available for free and helps an organisation practice in a safe environment. It’s taken a year to build, can be used by technical and non technical staff. The system Read more…
CYBERUK19
Cyber Essentials
Cyber Essentials is a UK government scheme to educate business about the most basic elements for cyber security Firewalls Patching Antivirus/malware detection Etc Company can be certified, which shows to your customers that you are aware of the risks and have mitigated some risk and are applying the best practices Read more…
CYBERUK19
Scottish Government Security Basics
A good talk about the risks and realities that small businesses face in the cyber domain. SME are basically not doing enough and are expecting someone to do cyber for them. There was a nice breakdown of wannacry and its effects on SME in the UK, and the ‘Not Petya’ Read more…
CYBERUK19
NCSC SME intro to cyber
As part of CYBERUK19 I’m attending a day of talks and workshops aimed towards the SME community The first is from the NCSC giving an overview of the threats to small businesses (mainy skript kiddies and disgruntled former employees, which is fair enough) A little intro to the NCSC resources Read more…
Walking around Glasgow
Stargazing
“A Coronal Mass Ejection has happened and the effects of that are expected to arrive later tomorrow evening” /me downloads skyview augmented reality star map and aurorawatch UK. Now looking on Google maps and met office weather app for a dark location with no cloud cover tonight. https://t.co/GtYtSSTpjD The Northern Read more…