A year in review, and looking forwards
A short reflection on the year, and some thoughts on what I need to be doing better in this new year (and decade!). The last year has been pretty good, I think. It’s certainly gone by quickly. Work has been…
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An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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Weeknote 6/12/19
I’ve not posted one of these for three weeks, which perhaps is something I should apologise for – although I am hardly inundated with demands for one. The bonus is that in covering three weeks in one note, I actually…
Weeknote 15/11/19
Reflections Ah, LocalGovCamp. It went well, I think, despite (perhaps because of) the fact that I missed the social bit the night before due to a spot of, ah, gastric issues. This meant I turned up fresh as a daisy…
Weeknote 8/11/19
I may publish these on different days, but will always title them as the Friday of the week they cover. Reflections It’s LocalGovCamp this week, 10 years after the first. A rather different event than that one – it’s a…
Weeknote 1/11/19
Inspired by Annie, here goes. Format open to change as things progress. Reflections Mood has been a little low this week. Am getting over a cold – nothing lethal – which has left me a bit tired and meh. In…
Rebooting working out loud
I’m three months into my new job and that seems a good time to reflect on how things are going. I’ll save the meat of that for another post, because this one is about how I am working within my…
LINK: “Coding for low-code”
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LINK: “What’s happening with the service standard?”
We first talked about updating the service standard around a year ago. Since then, we’ve talked to hundreds of people in central and local government. It’s still a work in progress, but we think we’re getting close to a final…
LINK: “Salesforce adds low-code tools so everyone can automate their CRM workflow”
Probably the most important aspect of the new tools announced today is that they are based on the Lightning Design System, and so form part of the entire landscape of tools used to build Salesforce CRM applications. In earlier generations…
LINK: “People are not resources”
Resource. If you stop and think about it, it’s a terrible way to speak about people. A resource is something you take and use. Applied to people, it carries dismissive and devaluing undertones. Original: