Lindsey Holmes

@linholme

Judith Owigar co-founded Akirachix whose vision is to nurture generations of women who use technology to develop solutions for Africa. She also founded the Juakali workforce to address the challenge of growing youth unemployment and improve the livelihoods of skilled manual Labourers in Kenya. An accomplished speaker, she has spoken at the grace hopper celebration of women in computing as well as the global Entrepreneurship summit. She has been recognized with numerous awards and Honours including Anita Borg change agent award in 2012,

The race to get the world’s first plane in the sky was a hard-fought battle between The Wright Brothers and a lesser-known gentleman by the name of Samuel Pierpont Langley. 

The world knows about the Wright brothers but the outspoken Pierpont Langley, who no one knows about, was about to take the honours of building the flying machine if he had kept quiet.

• DNS stands for “Domain Name System” and it’s a backbone technology that makes the world wide web possible. 
• At the most basic level DNS provides a key/value lookup from a domain name (e.g., google.com) to an IP address (e.g., 85.129.83.120), which is required in order for your computer to route a request to the appropriate server. 
• Analogizing to phone numbers, the difference between a domain name and IP address is the difference between “call John Doe” and “call 201-867–5309.” Just like you needed a phone book in the old days, you need DNS to look up the IP address for a domain. 

The term Software Engineer refers to a person writing quality software as their profession.

While anyone can learn to program and create a program that solves their specific problem, it's not the same as engineered programs.

Engineering software is about designing, writing, testing, and maintaining computer programs that solve the problem for many users in different environments, machines and at different time zones.

Taking time away to relax, reflect, and recharge comes with several benefits. Yet there are times when your vacation ends but your motivation to dive back into work doesn’t follow.

If you work remotely, it may be particularly difficult to get back into your routine, because you’re not around other people who have been working steadily while you were away.