How to get a big break – Notes to my younger self.
Getting into the positive territory of my talk! A turn for the worse, ended up being a turn for the better! Why, how, this is what happened and how I got my ‘big break’.
Works on my machine! Notes to my younger self.
Ownership & Trust? Part 3 from my series on the talk I gave at React JS/Finland.
For this one, I need to set the scene to highlight what I did and why it was wrong. Being more experienced now, I certainly wouldn’t have done what was did all those years ago. Find out more now…
Life Sucks! Notes To My Younger Self.
Life Sucks! What to do as a jnr dev when your place of work isn’t what you were expecting. Can you see the obvious downhill spiral staring you in the face?
Can you take anything away from the experience? How to learn through hardship.
Landing your first job! Notes to my younger self.
Landing your first job! Notes to my younger self.
First ever conference talk complete! My talk broken down into it’s individual points – Getting Accepted. Preparing to get your first programming position.
ExifTool, moving from cmd line to Powershell
Previously I highlighted the issue in using Exiftool and getting it to add GPS data to a photo. Now that that issue is resolved (see here) we move on to getting it to work within Powershell. Getting it to work within Powershell is important for myself as I’m using that to copy photos from my …
ExifTool, Powershell, Cmd line – adding GPS
So you’ve got some photos, those photos do not have any location data. You have some data and you wish to automate adding that data to your photos.The concept is simple, yet there are numerous hurdles to overcome. I’ll highlight some of the issues I hit along my journey so you do not have to. …
Powershell – What on earth are you returning?
Starting with Powershell, adding in some echo statements for debugging – DON’T. At least understand what’s going on, and understand how Powershell returns data from a function.
Spread and Exclude
How can you remove just one property out of a large object in javascript? What if it’s sometimes undefined as well?
I’ll solve and show this very issue here.
Copying files using Powershell (SD card to PC)
Transferring images from SD card using Powershell due to slow running Sony software (Capture One)
Cycles of Life – A Cautionary Tale!
Having been around the software world for more than a few years you see the same cycles time and again. That rather old phrase of “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” comes to mind.
Teams grow and shrink and all going well grow again, prepare for it, so you can mange it.