Diary of a Saasy Girl

I've been a user of GitHub for more than 2 years now. My team was firmly planted in this world and used it for day to day management, using Zenhub in addition to make pretty our tasks into an easy readable Kanban format. Another team member pushed her metadata changes into GitHub to save her work from the Provar testing tool, connected to Salesforce. We would also use the Wiki to add any 'ways of working' documents or project related items. It was our central hub and a really effective tool to oversee work. What I didn't know was that GitHub also has a community, a bit like Salesforce, all be it on a smaller scale, and I was invited to attend their recent Constellation day/evening. I couldn't make the day time sessions but booked in for the evening and decided to take a leap to expand on my community horizon. So here's some differences that I noticed about the event compared to the one's I'm used to... Firstly the location. It was held in a night cl...

Hot on the heels of International Women's Day yesterday, for which I celebrated with the fine ladies and gents associated with Women In Tech, I wanted to share another instalment of the workshop I attended recently, lead by Eve Poole.  http://evepoole.com/ Eve's talk was driven around key symbols that just happened to be in our goody bags. Today I'm going to talk about another two of those items, the box of rhubarb tea and the chocolate coin. Lets start with a good cup of tea and a chat. And this essentially is what the reference is about. The flavour of rhubarb for the tea in particular relates to when film extras are pretending to have a conversation with another in the background while the scene is being shot. The extras mouth 'rhubarb' at each other to form meaningful mouth movements.  Women find it much easier to sit with fellow ladies and talk through when situations seem troublesome or complex. Admit it, how many times have you sought female company to...