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The Top 10 Things I Learnt After Completing a Software Development Apprenticeship

Completing any apprenticeship involves a great deal of learning, but the world of software engineering particularly can be confusing, stressful and, at times, unforgiving. Learning from failures and mistakes is critical for a rewarding and successful career further down the line. In this article I’ll be sharing 10 crucial lessons I learnt on my software engineering journey.

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Software Engineering Blog

The Top 10 Things I Learnt After Completing a Software Development Apprenticeship

Completing any apprenticeship involves a great deal of learning, but the world of software engineering particularly can be confusing, stressful and, at times, unforgiving. Learning from failures and mistakes is critical for a rewarding and successful career further down the line. In this article I’ll be sharing 10 crucial lessons I learnt on my software engineering journey.

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Becoming Greener Guest Series: Iceotope

Currently, the vast majority of data centres blow air across their electronics to cool them. In doing so, very significant amounts of electricity, water, and space are consumed. Despite the industry’s efforts to optimise efficiency, data centres contribute around 1% of total global energy consumption – and growing – coupled with very significant water consumption.

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The Last Push to the Clean Power Era

The power infrastructure in the UK is in a major transitional phase and with the PM stating that all of the UK’s electricity is going to come from clean energy sources by 2035; as COP26 progresses we expect more news on the clean power era to come.

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What is a modal and when should I use one?

First off let’s just clarify what we are going to be talking about, ‘modals’ can often be referred to as dialogs, lightboxes, full screen modal windows and sometimes pop-ups or pop-overs.

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The BACnet to MQTT Broker Adapter

This exciting tool from Hark labs fully simplifies the world of connected assets and devices. The adapter app makes configuring, reading and transcribing asset data from BACnet devices super easy…

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Industrial IoT and Shift Detection

Shift patterns and shift management plays a huge role in the energy efficiency and productivity of industrial assets. Providing insight into asset shifts is the key to discovering system inefficiencies and unlocking control strategies which can simplify operation and ensure production targets are met.

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Becoming Greener: The Corporate Sustainability Summit

Last Thursday, we were proud to host Becoming Greener: The Corporate Sustainability Summit as part of the 2021 Leeds Digital Festival. Individual behaviour changes will only get us so far on the road to a more sustainable planet. What we really need is for companies and organisations to get fully behind the green movement to ensure their practices have as little negative environmental impact as possible.

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Becoming Greener Guest Series: Energym

Recent years have seen exercise taken to a new level, both in terms of our interest in the sector and its advancing technology. A solitary cycle in the gym is no longer enough; we now want a fiery cycling class complete with strobe lighting and blaring music.

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Becoming Greener Guest Series: Powerstar

We love anything relating to energy. We love it even more when it’s technical. And we love it, even more, when it’s being used for the greater good: to reduce the effects of climate change.

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Green is the New Black for Facilities Management

In light of the UN’s recent Climate Change Report 2021, it’s never been more black-and-white: climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying. We’ve all got a part to play in limiting climate change; it’s a time-sensitive case of now or never.

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Achieving Sustainability in Supply Chains

Effectively speaking directly to the logistics and supply chain sectors, the 1987 Brundtland Report defines sustainable development as ‘producing and distributing goods in a sustainable way, taking account of environmental, financial, and social factors’.

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