Installing AWS SAM with pip on Ubuntu 🔗
I just found out the recommended way to install AWS SAM on Linux is to use Homebrew!?! Homebrew is a fantastic package manager for Mac. This blog expl [...]
Anna Dodson
Posts
New Job Alert 🔗
This is my last working week at Imosphere, I’m very sad to be leaving my amazing colleagues and working on such worthwhile products but the time has c [...]
Building Inclusive Workplaces - part two 🔗
It’s International Women’s Day on Sunday! Last year I wrote about helping women in the workplace and this year I want to carry on with that theme. I l [...]
Noobs on Ubs - Ubuntu for Beginners 🔗
Noobs on Ubs - ubuntu for beginners I attended OggCamp in Sheffield last year and I really enjoyed it. I remember being excited to go and learn from r [...]
Ubuntu - Create a new Partition and Mount it on Start up 🔗
I have a separate SSD hard drive in my computer so I decided to use it to save games and other similar content on. Because it’s mainly for games, I de [...]
Custom 404 page in Hugo on Netlify 🔗
Step One: Create your custom 404 page To serve a custom 404 page, it needs be in the root directory of the site. Create a 404.html page in your layout [...]
Encrypted Partitions in Ubuntu 🔗
New Install with Encryption and Separate Home Partition I’ve been using Ubuntu 17 on my laptop for too long because updating was going to take me ages [...]
Becoming an Organiser of Women in Tech Notts 🔗
The Community Since becoming a developer and attending meetups in Nottingham, my confidence has grown, I’ve learned loads about loads of different int [...]
Building Inclusive Workplaces 🔗
It’s International Women’s Day Today! I love it when I get asked about inclusivity and improving diversity in the tech industry, it’s a subject I coul [...]
Buying a practical and stylish backpack was a lot harder than I thought it would be 🔗
Buying a backpack - how hard can it be? I use a backpack everyday for work and at lots of different events and conferences. My normal one was lacking [...]
FOSDEM 2019 🔗
Why FOSDEM? I’m an advocate for open source software for many reasons - the biggest for me being that everyone should have access to technology and be [...]
Git Reference Guide - Part Two 🔗
Getting started In my examples, I’m using GitLab but if you’d rather use GitHub, go ahead as there won’t be much difference. Before you can start usin [...]
Git Reference Guide - Part One 🔗
Getting to Grips with Git The basics Git is a Revision Control System, a tool to manage your source code history. GitLab (or GitHub) is a service to m [...]
Hacktoberfest Community Website 🔗
We built this for Hacktoberfest I’m not going to say much about it here, you’re going to have to go and check it out yourself to see what it was all a [...]
Remote Desktop to Windows from Ubuntu 🔗
Remote Desktop from Ubuntu Using Remmina I use Windows at work and Ubuntu at home. To work from home I remote desktop onto my work machine using the w [...]
Quick Getting Started MongoDB Commands 🔗
New to MongoDB I recently needed to interact with a Mongo Database for the first time and I found myself trying to remember these shell commands quite [...]
School STEM Careers Talk 🔗
Nottingham Girls High School Careers Event I spoke at the NGHS Careers in STEM evening about my role as a Software Engineer and what I actually do eve [...]
Tech Nottingham Student Event 🔗
Tech Nottingham student outreach event with Experian Tech Nottingham ran an evening event at Experian’s offices for students in Nottingham, there were [...]
Hackference 2017 🔗
Hackference - a Conference and Hack I attended Hackference, a conference for learning and playing with new fun stuff. It’s based in Birmingham and is [...]
Django Girls 🔗
Djagno, girls, cake and MVC at CodeUps workshop I started learning programming in Python but I’ve never used Django before so time to learn! Django Gi [...]
Networking for Muggles 🔗
How to get a website. Explaining networking to non-technical stakeholders How to explain web development to non technical work people? There’s many di [...]
A Talk on Ransomware for Linney Labs 🔗
$300 to Get Your Files Back I did a talk explaining Ransomware to the rest of the company recently. The talk covered what Ransomware is and why it’s b [...]
Browser Security 🔗
May the Fourth be With You - Talk at Women in Tech Meetup I regularly attend the Women in Tech Notts meetups, I really enjoy the wide variety of talks [...]
Hacktoberfest 🔗
October is for Beer and Hacktoberfest Super proud to have taken part in Hacktoberfest this year! It was hard to find stuff to contribute too, loads of [...]
Spirit of the Hack 🔗
Hackference Hackathon Last weekend I was at Hackference! A weekend hack in Birmingham for students and non students sponsored by Algolia, Microsoft, P [...]
TIL - Today I Learned 🔗
This Week I've Learned. I’ve been doing a lot of driving recently so I’ve taken the opportunity to listen to some of my favourite tech and programming [...]
Hello World 🔗
Welcome to my new website! I’ve just finished doing my Masters in Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. I handed in my summer project last [...]
About 🔗
Senior Software Engineer at Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) , currently working on the internal payments API. The DVSA is part of the Gover [...]
Bio 🔗
Anna is a Software Engineer at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) working on the internal payments API. She also helps organise Tech Notti [...]