Tag: Careers

What we learnt from building a jobboard

2 October 2015

A few months ago we built a jobboard — pieline.net. It was mostly a programming challenge — we wanted to learn more about databases and Node.js, and we thought that this would be useful and straightforward. There used to be the Geekup Jobboard, run by Andrew Disley, free and for everyone (except recruiters). It was split up by functional […]

I protested BBC iPlayer in 2007, and I don't regret it.

5 March 2014

During the summer holidays of 2007, I was a teenage sailing instructor who was volunteering locally, to teach younger teens how to sail (better) for a week. On Tuesday, I skived off teaching, jumped on a train to Manchester and changed my life forever. But that's not the beginning… A few months earlier I was […]

Tell your children: "If you don't go to University, you'll end up homeless"

27 April 2013

"I never let my schooling interfere with my education" was something Mark Twain once allegedly said. Well it certainly sounds like he had an easy ride! Infrequent readers of this blog will know that my education and my schooling (clearly different things) have been recurring subjects of this blog since the start. From bypassing content […]