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Are your developers AI ready (part 3)? Embedding a security mindset

In the age of AI tooling, engineering and delivery teams must adopt a security-first in all their and their co-pilot's...

26 May 2025

How terrible code can lead to imposter syndrome. And what to do about it.

How good developers can be struck by imposter syndrome when working on terrible code. And what to do about it....

26 March 2025

Weaving cyber security into your everyday

How to weave cyber security into your everyday software engineering practices

24 January 2025

And the award for the BEST programming language goes to...

Links to useful technical content, published every 2-3 weeks - this week we talk language choices, dogma and blindspots

2 December 2024

A bicycle for the mind - how to find useful knowledge in a flood of content

How to find useful knowledge in an overwhelming flood of "content"

26 July 2024

Travel hardened lessons for software engineers. Always wear sunscreen!

Links to useful technical content, published every 2-3 weeks - this week we're embracing summer.

11 July 2024

Do you write good? The power of the written word in software

Links to useful technical content, published every 2-3 weeks - this week we talk about writing

27 June 2024

Calming the turbulence in the winds of cybersecurity-related threats

Links to useful technical content, published every 2-3 weeks - this week we're talking cyber security

13 June 2024

Insert scream here - finding the time and inclination to fix flaws in the system

Links to useful technical content, published every 2-3 weeks - this week finding the time and inclination to fix the...

28 May 2024

The complexity of front-end development

Links to useful technical content, published every 2-3 weeks - this week we're talking front development

16 May 2024

How do we grow leadership skills?

Links to useful technical content, published every 2-3 weeks - this week we're focusing on leadership skills

2 May 2024

Security by intention - how to improve your security culture through small steps

Links to useful technical content, published every 2-3 weeks - this week we're focusing on security

18 April 2024

Those quarterly objectives

Links to useful technical content, published every 2-3 weeks - this week we're focusing on performance

4 April 2024

Two brains better than one?

Links to useful technical content, published every 2-3 weeks from our learning team - this week we're just kicking things...

21 March 2024

How to run a successful software engineering graduate academy

We have been running graduate academies for 15 years. Here are the secrets to how we make them a success.

15 December 2022

The Edutainment Problem

In this post Garth Gilmour ponders the problem of 'Edutainment' and whether or not trainers need to be entertainers.

24 September 2021

Should Developers be Ignorant?

Garth discusses his belief that junior developers should be given a safe space of blissful ignorance to play in, and...

7 December 2020

Can Remote Training Sessions Work For You?

This is the fourth post in our series on distributed classroom training, this time written by our associate trainer, and...

29 June 2020

Instil Recommends Turns Fifty

A summary of of the talks and videos highlighted in our Instil Recommends series.

22 June 2020

10 reasons why WebStorm is better than VS Code

Ok, ok, I know the title is contentious but don't start with me. I've been locked up for over 9...

18 May 2020

The Delusions Of Developers

Lessons from the Dot-com Bust we need to relearn

10 May 2020

Is The Classroom Dead?

With the pandemic in full-swing and ways of working changing, will any of us ever set foot in a classroom...

1 May 2020

Responding to Change and Following a Plan

COVID-19 has disrupted everything. As with just about everyone, Instil are being challenged to find a suitable response. Here's...

17 April 2020

Virtual-classroom Training from Instil

Maintaining the Instil approach of tailored training and individual coaching when we can't be together in a classroom

17 April 2020

Thinking of the days, those serverless days you gave me

There’s something very special about a single-day, single-track, single-topic conference in your home city that offers a day of learning,...

30 January 2020