Recently I have been reading the first few chapters of Patrick Stewart’s Memoir, Making It So: A Memoir . In it he tells the story of his early life. I find it fascinating that very early on it is quite clear he had a life goal. Become the best actor Patrick Stewart can be. Yes, there are other things in his life but...
As 2022 draws to a close its time to do my annual look back at what happened. I am going to talk a bit about my personal life as well as tech things, so if that is not your bag feel free to skip this post and read my more technical articles. January - I started the year teaching my son to code . February - I did some...
Lets have a look at what my goals were for 2021. I had eight of them, lets look at them one by one. Azure certification. In May of this year I sat and passed the Azure Fundamentals exam. I am calling this goal as achieved. Mentoring. I didn’t do anything about working with others or mentoring, so not sure I...
We are over halfway through 2021, let’s have a quick look at some things I have done this year: Deployed a new version of the Pre Qualification questionnaire website for my employers Passed Azure Fundamentals Exam Mongo DB Atlas - experimented with using it for auditing my application SonarCloud - tried to...
I didn’t make any goals for 2020, or if I did, I didn’t officially announce them. 2020 has been a hard year for all of us, 2021 is going to be better. Here are a few ideas for my goals for the year ahead. Azure certification Mentoring F# Cosmos db/Mongo db Give a talk Mandlebrot Generator Pwned Pass Mobile App More...
This is my annual lets make some goals for the new year blog post. So in no particular order. Improve House I can’t outdo last years goal of buying a house but I can continue to make efforts to improve it. I was going to put something about decorating or doing something to our bedrooms, however today I spotted a hole...
As 2018 starts to draw to a close let’s look at some of the highlights from the past year. New Home - I started 2018 with the goal of buying my own home and I managed it. At the end of October I actually moved in but it was months of looking at houses, speaking to estate agents, saving, packing and unpacking. There is...
Remember me? I used to write blog posts but somehow life got in the way. So much has happened this year, lets have a look at my goals for 2018 and see how far we have got with them. Buy a house My first goal for 2018 was to buy a house. Well so much progress has been made with this goal. We looked at a few houses, and...
For a while I have been mentoring a friend and I thought I might share some top tips I have implemented in my career so far. Hard Work At school I was told: “Only in the dictionary does Success come before Work“. Yes it is a bit of a corny saying however it has stuck in my head and it’s true. If you want to get...
It is 2018 so it must be time to think about what my plans and goals are for the new year. Buy a house This a huge goal for me. For many years I was content with renting and thought owning my own home wasn’t for me, but then I went and started a family and my career started going in the right direction and my thoughts...