#TechTeamTour – Tackling Tech Stereotypes

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The Ada Lovelace Initiative by Verify Recruitment, together with Science Foundation Ireland’s Smart Futures Programme, has launched the #TechTeamTour video campaign in order to encourage Irish secondary school students to consider a career in technology. The aim of the #TechTeamTour video series is to challenge misconceptions about careers in technology, helping both teenagers and parents… [Read More]

Django; Speedy Solutions

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Clunky code is the mother of invention. It was the PHP of the early 2000s and its painfully demonstrable shortcomings that spurred Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison to find a new way to create web applications in a demand driven industry. Both men were developers working in Lawrence Journal-World, a media company operating in the… [Read More]

Celebrating Women In STEM – ALD Dublin 2015

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October 13th was a special day across the world for the STEM industry; it was International Ada Lovelace Day. ALD began in 2009 to celebrate the achievements of women in STEM in an effort to increase the visibility of female professionals in this sector. It was also a special day for The Ada Lovelace Initiative… [Read More]

Udemy – Changing the Online Learning Industry

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One thing that many students don't seem to realise is that for most of them their "finals" won’t be their last exams. During their careers they’ll find it next to impossible to avoid professional exams or even work place proficiency tests. Working life and increasingly personal life will be a succession of training and educational courses… [Read More]