April 14, 2016 • 8 minute read
Last night I was on a panel for the first Built in Cork event of 2016, alongside Barry O’Sullivan (CEO Altocloud, Dragon’s Den), Niamh Bushnell (Dublin Startup Commissioner) and Mark O’Toole (Beachhut PR). As usual, it was hosted by the venerable DC Cahalane, unofficial Cork Sta...
October 3, 2015 • 16 minute read
Express is a popular Node module that simplifies the development of Web applications. It is comparable to Ruby's Sinatra framework and Python's Flask framework in that it makes it simple to respond to HTTP requests at defined endpoints and serve up responses, typically HTML gener...
October 2, 2015 • 13 minute read
Node.js (Node) is an application runtime that enables you to develop JavaScript applications that run out of the browser. To get started with Node, download and install it - you can find relevant instructions for your platform at https://nodejs.org. When it is installed on your c...
August 18, 2015 • 2 minute read
There is a good time to take risks in your career. But it’s not when you might expect. In my early career, I had several opportunities to move from my reliable, pensionable employment into riskier roles in startups and rapid-growth companies. Invariably, I declined all of these o...
October 29, 2014 • 6 minute read
A few years ago, I was contacted by someone in Gilt Groupe about a potential role in their front-end engineering team in Dublin. At the time I was happy in my Product Manager role in Core and was routinely ignoring similar emails from recruitment agencies and other companies. I...