Editorials What is a Proposal Document and Why is it Awesome for Meetups? A Proposal Document is a baseline set of requirements for a meetup that lists both its values and benefits. You can send this document to anybody interested in hosting your meetup and to any higher-ups in the organization that may need to approve costs. It allows you to define what
Editorials What Are Your Tips For First-Time Speakers? Short one this week, but in my defence, I was in the middle of penning two different articles and by ‘penning’ I mean I’ve written the titles and stopped experimenting with the font. Anyhow, one speaker due to talk at our next tech event emailed me to ask, “Any
Editorials What Do You Do To Ensure You're Conducting a Great Interview? The consensus is that interviews usually suck. Whether you are an interviewer or an interviewee; interviews never seem to be regarded in the same light as Christmas. In this article I’ll be focussing on the ‘interviewer’ side of things, as there are many tips and tricks to being a
Editorials Can A Tech Meetup Have Code Smell? Code smell is any characteristic in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem - According to Wikipedia. Context Last week, we hosted the second London Gophers event since the post-pandemic restart. Monzo Bank were our venue hosts and their event space is outstanding! Looking cool
Editorials What's The Name of This Password Management Technique and is it a Good Idea? Edit: We're gonna go with 'peppering'-ish. Thanks @anes! I don't remember who told me this, but the idea was, when creating login using a password manager such as BitWarden, KeePass or LastPass. Generate a password, as usual, but add a word to the
Editorials Diversity & Inclusion In Tech. Who Bears Responsibility? To preface this discussion, there are no answers within this article. It showcases the different thoughts and opinions I’ve encountered when posing a scenario to people in my life. The idea for this article was sparked inside a Fast-Food Restaurant outside a Cathedral as all great ideas are. My
Editorials Golang Meetup Map - 3 Days to Put Markers on a Map. Dear Jelly Beans, Why. TLDR (Spoilers) * Started a Side Project Golang Meetup Map, (Github) * Inspired by Map of London open mic nights (created by @apuchitnis) and Developers Conference Agenda (created by @aurelievache) * CSV Input, Generates a HTML page, Deploys Page to Internet (As opposed to something else) Introduction & Showcase This is the Golang
Life Updates Gophercon UK 2022 - Slightly Behind The Scenes At One of Europe's Biggest Go Conferences This year, I was given the illustrious 'team’ badge from Gophercon UK by volunteering to help out. I’ve been to Gophercon UK before as an attendee, so this time around I actually got to peek behind the curtain of what makes things tick. And honestly, there’s a
Editorials An Introduction to TinyGo, and The Tools That Will Help You Flourish TLDR (Skip to Avoid Spoilers) * TinyGo is a Go Compiler For Small Places. It allows Go to start getting involved with microcontrollers, embedded systems, The Internet of Things and WebAssembly. * Useful Tools for TinyGo: TinyGo PlayGround, VSCode Plugin, GoLand Plugin * Join the TinyGo Community! It’s friendly and they have
Editorials I Spent a Year Making a Game and Regret it (kind of) - A.K.A My Video Editing Nightmare TL:DR (Skip for spoilers) * It’s done! Yay * Troubleshooting Premiere Pro Problems is a bit of a rabbit hole, there seems to be a lot of internalized knowledge and issues that are ‘known’, but there are workarounds so don’t worry about it. What Took The Video So Long?
Editorials Mistakes I Made When Failing To Create A Video For Today TL:DR * I goofed * Video Editing can be a long process, better to focus on keeping it simple, especially when you’re new to it. * The Video is still being worked on and refactored. It’ll have to be released during the week instead of today. Backstory I wanted to
Editorials How I Created A ‘Create Your First Go Application with GoLand’ Video TL:DR (Skip to avoid Spoilers) * Spotted a blogpost that JetBrains was looking for a Developer Advocate, so created my own version of Creating your first Java application with IntelliJ IDEA by Trisha Gee, but for GoLand A Brief Retrospective I was digging through Golang Weekly and saw a job
Interviews Before Hello World - Or Why I Never Got Round to Reading That C++ Book In an effort to avoid writing my first tutorial, I found something I wanted to investigate beforehand. What is it that makes someone switch to or learn a new programming language, like Go? What comes before ‘Hello World’? TL:DR (Skip if you don't want spoilers) * At different
Life Updates The Road To Advocacy - Or How To Effectively Manage Your Quarter Life Crisis This and other erroneous titles coming soon to the Jaminologist. But, in case you don’t wish to read all the way to the end… TL:DR * I’m working my way towards becoming an Developer Advocate. * Making a horizontal jump like this can be scary and nerve-wracking. * It’s