Over the last 6 months, I've been training up to be a Guard on the East Lancashire Heritage railway. The line runs from Bury to Heywood and Rawtenstall through parts of the outer urban areas of Manchester and into Rossendale. The trains guard is responsible for the safe timely operation of the train, that means ensuring the coaches are...

You may have read in my previous Hey World, how I "caught hold" and returned to Change Ringing after a couple of years absence. Find it here: https://world.hey.com/martyn/returning-to-ringing-3a32046e 🙋♂This year I decided to do something I've never done before (or had the opportunity), ring a full peal! A peal, in bell ringing, firstl...

Civo Navigate comes to London (The Brewery in Shoreditch Civo is a challenger cloud provider in the UK, offering low cost Kubernetes hosting. We’ve opened the morning with an AMAZING keynote from Marty Weiner and Nick Caldwell. With 5 key takeaways to growing your Engineeing, with excellent takeaways such as Connecting to Your Mission....

Growing up we all had those varied interests, sports and hobbies. But as life gets busier, you go to university and then to work. These once loved past times start to fall by the wayside of life, either through dwindling interest, or you just have Big Bang life changes!! So I grew up, just outside of Liverpool in the tiny village of Au...

Hey .. I'm Martyn Software Developer/Data Engineer | Agile Evangelist | Cat Dad | Steam Train Enthusiast | Lover of Outdoors I enjoy getting to go out hiking, running or cycling. Recently got back into hiking properly, and I love a long hike with my thoughts. 🏠I live in Ramsbottom, a town just North of Manchester. It's famous for Peal ...

So I just wanted to share my story for #NationalComingOutDay ... I make no secret to people that I'm gay, but I also try not to make it a big thing these days, I may have made it more obvious in the past. Now I'm at the delightful age of *cough* 34 I've fully come to accept myself for who I am, as a whole. My Coming Out Story When I gr...

Today is a sad day, we (Rob, myself and my friends) said goodbye to Mr Mittens (aka Mitzy, previously Dr Kitty Mittens) Sadly he took ill on the 2nd May, and although we had 3 nights in A&E where we thought he'd recovered, when he was back out bounding in the sun and cuddling, he took a bad turn on Thursday evening after not eating. We...

“What Is Agile” As an agile practitioner this is something I get all the time... But surprisingly so many people, 20 years after the Agile Manifesto still don't understand or get confused, Agile isn't Scrum, Kanban, TDD*, DevOps or even Extreme Programming. Agile is: “Uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helpin...

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