The Dangers of Over-Extending your-self

Having worked in a completely different career for the last 10 years and now slowly ageing in my late twenties with skills and experience somewhat irrelevant to entry level programming, I keep finding myself with a strong desire to be better, faster. To learn…

Ok. This is really fucking hard.

I’m actually questioning whether I can do this for a job. It is honestly that difficult and I have no idea what’s going on…

Get started with Symfony and php on Mac OSX

Before you start working with any new technology it is important to at least understand the basics of what it is you’re working with or attempting to learn. Symfony2 is a full-stack web framework written in PHP which leverages the internal web server…

Looks like I’m technically now a Professional

So apparently the disillusionment doesn’t stop just because you’re technically now a professional.

Stop wrapping new female coders in cotton wool.

I’m a self-taught female programmer trying to move from a career in hospitality (also very male dominant) to a career in Software engineering.

All of my mentors are men and I struggle to find women in senior positions but I don’t think female coders…

Build Confidence, Aim High, Fall Hard. Repeat.

What a roller coaster it has been… I have finally found the confidence in my…

Official Dev — One week and counting…

One week down and I’m exhausted.

Time to meet new People

In a new city, it can be difficult to find a place where you fit in. Especially when you move to start working on your new career and have competitions lined up for the first few months which involve daily training.

IAM with AWS

The following is a step by step tutorial on how to set up Identity Access management or IAM with AWS on your first login. It runs through multifactor authentication on the root account as well as setting up new users and assigning them to groups. There are also two examples of assigning policies, either…

The path to greatness

You know it seems less interesting to write about since I made it here. I guess that’s because the reality now is that I actually do…