Seminar: Starting Your Own Engineering Practice

Overview of the Seminar I attended a virtual seminar which was set up by Engineering New Zealand Special Interest Group . The seminar had a panel of engineers who had set up their own practices, and had many years of experience in different industries. Most of the panel had experience in structural engineering but one was an electrical engineer. Tamlyn Adams was the host, Pete Van Grinsven was interviewed, and Ian Watson gave out the ten tips....

October 15, 2022 · 10 min

77 Words in Morse

Learning Morse Your First 77 Words Morse code is a tricky thing to get into. In order to use it, you need to be able to hear and send groups of letters. On top of this, it’s important to use special abbreviations and words that are common to the people that would often use Morse code. So several skills need to be worked on before you can even start having a conversation....

October 3, 2022 · 6 min

Book Review: How to Get to the Top of Google Search

Author: Richard Conway ISBN: 978-0-14-377353-5 Year: 2019 Overview If you want to know more about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), then this book is for you. It does a short look into the tools and techniques to use when you want to make your website more noticable. Search engines are one of the biggest tools we want to lean on in getting our message out into the general public. If you’re a business owner trying to attract customers, or a blogger trying to get more eyes on your content, then this book will give you a couple of tips....

September 12, 2022 · 4 min

Book Review: The Bike and Beyond

The Bike and Beyond by Laura Williamson I recently came across a bunch of books published by BWB Texts . They had been donated to someone and they were passing it on through the staffroom. I quickly browsed through the titles of some of the books in hopes that something would pique my interest. Sure enough, there were a couple of titles so I picked them out to give them a go....

September 6, 2022 · 2 min

Book Review: Soft Skills

Soft Skills by John Z. Sonmez (2015) Overview This book is a compilation of career advice for software developers. However, the concepts covered are transferable to other careers. The chapters are relatively short to read, most are just a couple of pages long. The book is easy to read, and the author makes his material approachable. It is written in a way that appears to be short articles that could have been pulled from his own personal blog....

August 27, 2022 · 5 min

Initial Post

My First Post on My First Website Hello and welcome to my first website. I’ll be moving in and sorting things out over the next month or so. This website is fairly bare bones at the moment, but we all start somewhere. This is where I start for this website. It’s going to look amateurish for a while, but it’ll grow and become more valuable as time goes by. Another Subtitle I hope you come along with me on this journey....

August 27, 2022 · 1 min