Gillian Rickerd

Be the Best Mentee – Four Ways to Engage Deeply with Your Mentors

Actively engaging in meetings with your mentors and peers is the best way to grow in your career. But how can you engage deeply?

Personal Optimization

Enneagram in the Workplace: Using Your Type to Your Advantage

The Enneagram has grown in popularity over the past few years because of its personality typing style. But what can the Enneagram offer us in the workplace?

Extracurricular Activities

An Introduction to Ghost – A Headless, Open-Source CMS

Get exposed to the next greatest blogging platform: an open-source, responsive, node CMS — perfect for all of your writing projects.

DevOps & System Admin.

Docker Volumes: Why, When, and Which Ones?

Docker volumes are used to persist data from within a Docker container. I'll explain when and why to use host, anonymous, and named volumes in Docker.

Extracurricular Activities

Deploy a Static WordPress using AWS & Cloudflare, Part 3: Connecting Your S3 Bucket to Cloudflare

CloudFlare is great way to manage your DNS name servers. Connecting an S3 bucket to CloudFlare is super simple with these steps.

Extracurricular Activities

Deploy a Static WordPress using AWS & Cloudflare, Part 2: Downloading Your Static WordPress & Deploying to AWS S3

Hosting a Wordpress can be insecure and expensive. You can reduce costs and increase security on your site by making it static and hosting it in Amazon S3.

Extracurricular Activities

Deploy a Static WordPress Using AWS & Cloudflare, Part 1: Building a WordPress in Docker

Wordpress is a great way to build a personal website or blog, and it’s super easy to start one with Docker. Here's the 5-step process.

Personal Optimization

Five Types of Music that Can Improve Your Productivity

I've found five kinds of audio experiences that help me stay more productive at work, and there's research to back that up.

Growing as Makers

DEF CON from a Developer’s Perspective

Everyone in tech should attend DEF CON at least once, even just to get a summary of topics to do further research on. DEF CON 27 will be August 8-11, 2019 in Las Vegas.

Developer Tools

Intro to Swagger – A Structured Approach to Creating an API

Swagger can help you define your API and its attributes for both internal and external conversation – then implement and test it.

Evolving the Industry

Seven Influential and Inspirational Women in Tech

As the push for more women in tech continues, let's remember the countless inspirational women before us who have paved the road to success. Here’s a brief history of just a few of

Growing as Makers

A Practical Guide to Breaking into Software Development

A lot of people believe all Computer Science majors have been programming since they were 10. Not true. Here’s how this former musician became a developer.

Gillian Rickerd

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