Web Developer
I recently read about the Techies project by Helena Price, and being a keen photographer, plus the only female in a tech department of 14, a portrait project focussing on the underrepresented workers in the technology industry was of great interest to me.
The blurb on the front of this book reads…
“How to stop spending time you don’t have doing things you don’t want to do with people you don’t like”
Continue reading “Reading List // The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck – Sarah Knight”
A really nice campaign and website I saw from HP this week, translated as “THE FIRST BOOK WRITTEN BY THOSE WHO NEVER WROTE”.
This is promoting HP’s new printer which they’ve combined with a speech recognition API in order to allow printing via a mobile app, or desktop setup, straight from user’s speech to the page.
Okay so not so much of a read but a listen. I’ve started taking advantage of Audible to listen to books on my commute to the office, and to take my mind off how much I hate running whilst on the treadmill.
First up, Oprah’s ‘What I Know For Sure’, the accumulation of her monthly column of the same name, taken from ‘O’ magazine, and collated together in one book. Continue reading “Reading List // What I Know For Sure – Oprah Winfrey”
Can’t tell you how much I relate to this video!
There’s no girls in the profession emojis, unless you count being a ‘bride’ as a profession
Always asked a group of girls – do emojis represent them? Turns out not really, unless you like pink!
As today is International Women’s Day there’s no better day to write about the screening of the documentary “Code: Debugging The Gender Gap” I went to last week.
Being a female developer, the sole female developer in a team of 10 where I work, i’d been wanting to see the film, directed and produced by Robin Hauser Reynolds, since it was released – so when White October organised a screening in Oxford I was there.
I’ve been trying to read a wider variety of book of late, and when this popped up on Facebook, written by my old school friend Sophie, I decided to give it a go.
Continue reading “Reading List // From Light To Dark – Dave Heeley & Sophie Parkes”
Finished reading Shappi Khorsandi’s memoir of her childhood – the recount of her family’s immigration to London to escape the Iranian revolution, and the subsequent assassination attempt on her father, journalist and satirist Hadi Khorsandi, by the Ayatollah.
Continue reading “Reading List // A Beginner’s Guide To Acting English – Shappi Khorsandi”
Another sterling effort from the OK Go boys with their latest music video for ‘Upside Down & Inside Out’, they never fail to push the boundaries of creativity in music videos, this time filmed entirely in zero gravity. Continue reading “Zero Gravity Music Video: OK Go”
Another piece on web trends for the company blog:
With a new year we continue to move forward in web technologies and browser support – allowing for us to push our creativity on the web further, and use tools and techniques that speed up our build process and streamline our code.