All 'learning' related blog posts
The Powerlifting Principal: In the Thick of it
How injury can lead to some of your greatest engineering breakthroughs.
7 June 2023
The Powerlifting Principal: the start of something great...
There are principals and then there are principles. I am the former and I just so happen to love the sport of powerlifting. And this is a story of how...
10 May 2023
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
A Post Pandemic Scorecard
A checklist for judging if your team is adapting to and benefitting from remote working
21 October 2021
20 Essential Programming Tips
In celebration of National Coding Week, here are 20 essential tips for developers at all levels
24 September 2021
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
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 cyber security expert Simon Whittaker. Simon answers the question -...
29 June 2020
Is YAML Developer my next job title?
A brief exploration of CloudFormation from a developer's perspective
23 June 2020
Instil Recommends Turns Fifty
A summary of 'must watch' software development videos
22 June 2020
The Debt We Owe Java
Why whatever you do is in part thanks to Java
23 May 2020
The Delusions Of Developers
Lessons from the Dot-com Bust we need to relearn
10 May 2020
Is The Classroom Dead?
Will any of us ever set foot in a classroom again?
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 what our training team are doing
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, a pint afterwards and home in time for the kids'...