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Coding Tour – Stop One – React.js with Clare Sudbery at Thoughtworks
Thursday 19th October. Manchester, England. It’s raining. I’m on my way to meet up with Clare Sudbery at the brand new Thoughtworks office. I’m nervous, really nervous. I’m about to pair program for...
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Coding Tour – Stop Two – JavaScript & Event Sourcing at Dev Camp Belgium with...
Tuesday 14th November. London St Pancras. I’m about to hop on the Eurostar with two members of the Cucumber team and travel to Wavre, Belgium for a couple of days. I will be guesting at their regular...
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Coding Tour – Stop Three – Ruby, Rails and HAML with Rachel at Makers Academy
Thursday 30th November. Spitalfields, London, England. I’m off to pair program for two days with my old friend Rachel Davies at Maker’s Academy. For those of you who don’t know Rachel, she is one of...
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Announcement
When I am excited about something I sometimes flap my hands a little. The excitement kind of radiates out of me in all directions. I’m pretty excited right now. Let me explain why. TL;DR I am...
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Coding Tour – Stop Four – Refactoring at Unruly
Anyone who has heard of Unruly will already know this but they have far and away the most epic office I have ever seen. From the climbing wall at the entrance to the Nerf gun wall; the themed, secret...
View ArticleGuidelines and Guardrails
by Esther Derby and Sal Freudenberg Learning from other disciplines is a source of innovation. The Lean and Agile Coaching community often pulls ideas and techniques from a broad range of areas. This...
View Article100 people knock
*Swearing warning* Recently on Slack a friend mentioned a time someone had knocked on their hotel room door late at night. I posted the following two (slightly cheeky) replies: “Did you shout “fuck...
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Hack like a woman: How self-care and some agile techniques helped us win...
tl;dr Went to hackathon; Hacked like women; Won. Last week I went to my very first Hackathon – Hack Manchester 2018. I was invited by the wonderful Clare Sudbery (a stop on my coding tour, and my...
View ArticleRIP My friend Martin Burns
It’s a little after 3am. I’m sleeping in the cabin in the garden with my two youngest. I can’t get comfy and eventually give up restlessly turning from side to side and flick on my phone. In that...
View ArticleFrom Cucumber to Rebel
The last 18 months or so with Cucumber has been the most amazing time with THE MOST FABULOUS group of people, and quite the ride. From getting the opportunity to code again commercially and try out...
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