The traditional mindset when it comes to education is that you go to school, get into sixth form, and then head off to university; however the pressure of exams, tests and high grades doesn’t sound particularly fun. So, if you’re unsure of what you want to do, or just want to know the differences in […]
Let me start with a quote by Otto Von Bismarck “Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” Whether you are into football or not it’s most likely you will know Jose Mourinho or at least Manchester United football club. Man united has been the most dominant club in England for many years, winning […]
Imagine going to a court of law where you were hoping to get justice , you are sure things will be ruled to your favour. When you arrive you find out that the judge has a decent track record, he gets things right 80% of the time….doesn’t sound too bad…BUT what if that 20% gap means you not getting justice regardless of the evidence?…80% accurate sounds great […]
Perhaps it’s because our identities are linked with what we are doing. If you fail at something suddenly YOU feel like you have become a failure. Your thoughts start spiralling out of control and before you know it you are having a conversation similar to this in your mind: “You can’t do that because […]
Its called a ‘comfort’ zone for a reason, because it’s the place we humans like to be…to feel safe. You may have battled out of that comfort zone before and gradually found yourself saying “hey how did I get back here!”. Reason 1: For the Results Feeling frustrated at where you are in life? Nothing seems […]
This is my opinion formed after conversations with Developers. Here are a few of the issues I see often: 1. Lack of People Skills – If the manager lacks people skills, then they will rub people up the wrong way and developers overtime will want to move on. Very few people leave due to other reasons […]
I sat down with a CEO of an international Tech company who made an amazing statement regarding a recruitment decision that went wrong, he said “that was my fault”…..I was amazed by this because 2 weeks prior, we lost a client because we challenged the hiring manager on how they treated a few candidates during their interviews. Some […]
Experienced developers will have seen the rise and fall of a number of development trends and fads, so it would be easy to dismiss TypeScript, a JavaScript superset that compiles into plain Java. TypeScript, however, improves on a number of areas where naked JavaScript struggles, and already has substantial industry support. This article will […]
Laravel is a very popular PHP framework, used by more than 30,000 developers around the world. One of the reasons it’s such a hit is that it allows web applications to be constructed quickly and makes them easy to maintain afterwards. The source code for Laravel is hosted on GitHub and is distributed under an […]
