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Here’s What you missed at London Tech Weeks’ #TechXLR8

Here’s What you missed at London Tech Weeks’ #TechXLR8

London Tech week is the week where the worlds most technically advanced businesses descend on beautiful London to discuss the next big…

Jun 14

How to Hack Your Learning as a Developer.

How to Hack Your Learning as a Developer.

I’ve had the good fortune of spending a sprint with one of Compare the Market’s teams in London. Working with this new team has been a…

May 30

Tips for Writing Technical Stories

Tips for Writing Technical Stories

This time 10 years ago my role as a BA was centered around changes, enhancements even overhauls of front end, user facing web journeys…

May 29

You asked me to prove mob programming works. Here’s the proof.

You asked me to prove mob programming works. Here’s the proof.

Two months ago I wrote an article called “I did mob programming every day for 5 months, here’s what I learnt”. Many of you enjoyed the…

Apr 28

Obfuscate sensitive request data with morgan in node.js

Obfuscate sensitive request data with morgan in node.js

With the upcoming GDPR legislation in Europe the team I’m in has had a compliance mindset over the previous few weeks. We’ve rearchitected…

Apr 27

My experience at the International JavaScript Conference

My experience at the International JavaScript Conference

The International JavaScript Conference was held from the 11th -13th of April 2017. I was fortunate enough to receive a ticket for the…

Aaron Rodrigues

Apr 26

So we did self selection!!……well “sort of”….

So we did self selection!!……well “sort of”….

First off, I loved our first round of self selection. It was something I have been aiming to do for a while so was excited that myself and…

Apr 25

Understanding Event loop in node.js

Understanding Event loop in node.js

Since I started working with comparethemarket.com, it has been so much fun, so interesting and challenging for me which wakes me up every…

Apr 24

How to get ahead in getting your first Junior Software Developer role

How to get ahead in getting your first Junior Software Developer role

Roughly a year ago, I graduated from Makers Academy. I decided to leave my career in retail to start on the long road to become a software…

Ben Vaughan-Jones

Apr 23

8 key learnings after 6 months as a Junior iOS developer

8 key learnings after 6 months as a Junior iOS developer

I started working at the company behind the infamous meerkats — comparethemarket.com — in July 2017. I had just graduated a 3-month long…

Apr 10

3 things you need to know right now to be a better developer.

3 things you need to know right now to be a better developer.

I left university in 2015 with a First in Computer Science, but by my graduation ceremony that was old news. I had a new mission: to be the…

Apr 9

Blockchain in Energy Sector

Blockchain in Energy Sector

Blockchain technology enables peer-to-peer transactions without an intermediary while keeping all transactions data transparent in a…

Mar 31

How we built an Android / iOS watch app in one day

How we built an Android / iOS watch app in one day

Mobile Team Innovation Day — Jan ‘18

Connie Reinholdsson

Mar 9

I did mob programming every day for 5 months. Here’s what I learnt.

I did mob programming every day for 5 months. Here’s what I learnt.

Whoever gave Mob Programming its name clearly wasn’t in marketing. Who would want to be in a mob? The word mob conjures images of smashed…

Mar 3

3 Quick Tips to Make Your GitHub Repository More Contributor Friendly

3 Quick Tips to Make Your GitHub Repository More Contributor Friendly

Over the past couple of years I have been leading a team of talented developers at CompareTheMarket. We have built new applications…

Feb 23

How Returning To Work Helped Me As A Mum

How Returning To Work Helped Me As A Mum

I’ve wanted to put something down in writing about being a mum and returning to work for a while now but couldn’t find the words.

Feb 22

NDC {London} Comparing the Developer Market…

NDC {London} Comparing the Developer Market…

So, I’m staring at my laptop screen. I’m very baffled — we’re setting up a really complex cloud environment and a simple research project…

Martin Eddington

Feb 12

My 2¢ on why I like using Git Flow

My 2¢ on why I like using Git Flow

When I tell people I enjoy using a Git Flow branching system for my development at work, I am usually met with one of two responses:

Feb 11

A journey from Junior Developer to Technical Lead

A journey from Junior Developer to Technical Lead

I have been working within IT for 10 years now, starting my career as a Junior Developer and now as a Technical Lead at…

Feb 9

ICO Best Practices

ICO Best Practices

Initial Coin Offerings are a good way to raise capital for your blockchain startup. Due to immense competition; its vital to conduct the…

Feb 8

An Adventure in .NET Memory Profiling

An Adventure in .NET Memory Profiling

A Suspicious Trend

Jan 31

Using GoCD and Slack Incoming WebHooks to post your releases to a channel

Using GoCD and Slack Incoming WebHooks to post your releases to a c...

This is a how-to on how to get GoCD to play nice with Slack Incoming WebHooks. This way, you can automatically post to any Slack channel…

Jan 11

ASP.NET Core 2.0 Integration Testing with Identity Server

ASP.NET Core 2.0 Integration Testing with Identity Server

TL;DR Run an integration test against an API endpoint that requires authentication. We’ll create .NET Core 2.0 projects for

Dec 8, 2017

A Day At Future Decoded

A Day At Future Decoded

A few weeks ago, I had the chance to attend the Microsoft Future Decoded conference, the aim of which was to showcase the next upcoming…

Nov 22, 2017

Chaos In Testing

Chaos In Testing

I attended µCon 2017 which is a Microservices conference with talks about emerging technologies and approaches to orchestrating security…

Nov 21, 2017

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