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  • Where have I been?!

    Well, it would seem a year has gone by…. Most of that year was spent commuting back and forth to Glasgow from London each week for ThoughtWorks. I was working with a client up there from late April 2014 to early March this year, first as a developer and then as an Agile Coach, leading…

  • Leadership coaching – the best investment I have made in myself.

    I have just wrapped up 6 months of coaching with Stacey Sargent from Connect Growth and Development, and it was such a great experience. I wanted to capture some of my feelings so that I could always remember how much of a difference it made. Why do leadership coaching? I was lucky enough to be…

  • Speaking Event – The Science of Diversity

    Myself and two of my colleagues will be talking about the science of diversity and whether diverse teams are better than non diverse teams…. If you are in London please come along! http://www.thoughtworks.com/events/science-diversity —————————————————— ThoughtWorks would like to invite you to meet with us at an upcoming event. Please share!   ThoughtWorks deliver software to people…

  • Creating C# .Net Websites in IIS with a Powershell Script

    I created this little script to automate the creation of websites in IIS. It’s written in powershell. You will need to run this script in powershell thats running in Administrator Mode. Prerequisites: You will need to have .net installed. Step 1 Loading the Web Administration Module This script is using the WebAdministration module to do…

  • Automating WebPageTest with a Ruby Script

    WebPageTest is a great tool for seeing how well your website is performing. I was just on a project where the speed of a particular results page loading was the focus. How long the server took to respond, how long the UI took to render, what it was rendering, and where there were places for…

  • The fear of blogging about technical topics…

    I rarely blog about technical topics, despite my main trade of being a developer. The prospect has always scared me, and from others that I’ve talked to I’m not the only one. The irrational thoughts that tend to go through my head are: What right to I have to blog about technical stuff?! Major case…