Image: Solo, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
This week Brian O'Connell, author of The Personals, was very kind to give his time to submit an interview to Smart Thinking Books! The Ennis man answered some questions about his favourite books. Please make sure to check out The Personals this Christmas :-)
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Hiring Lab published a post about the top trending tech skills from 2014 to 2019 based on job advertisements on indeed.com. Python is on the rise but Java remains kind of the hill.
Image: Haki Benita
Haki Benita has a great post describing 12 common mistakes and missed opportunities when using SQL, such as being careful when diving integers and avoiding transformations on indexed fields.
Image: Stephanie Walter
UX designers Stephanie Walter and Laurence Vagner created 52 cognitive bias cards for use in UX workshops. Categories covered in the cards include decision making, user testing and team work.
Image: Steve Crise/Railway Modeller
For the last 23 years, Rod Stewart has been building a massive super detailed scale railway model of a US city!
Image: Motherfoclóir, headstuff.org
There are many disparaging misconceptions about the apparent difficulty and usefullness of the Irish language. Many of these are covered in detail in Gaeilge: A Radical Revolution - Caoimhín De Barra. For a more entertaining, and many times hilarious, look at the regurgitation of these tropes in the papers each year, tune in to episode 96 of the fantastic Motherfoclóir podcast!
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
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