Being a Software EngineerWeekly Recap Weekly Recap: FHL Week An entire week of learning and or building a different project from my normal day to day! One of my favourite weeks at work. Meetings…Lulu NgeiMay 21, 2023
Being a Software Engineer Mentorship Ah, if there's one thing I have come to appreciate in my career is having a mentor. The more I’m around experienced engineers, the more…Lulu NgeiMay 1, 2023
Life International Women’s Month On our way to my grandparents’ for the weekend, my aunt turned up the radio and to say what was on the news sent chills…Lulu NgeiMarch 14, 2023
Life 2023: Chapter 1 The dawn of the new year rings in hopes, new goals, dreams and plans. It's like the fresh page in the new notebook you just…Lulu NgeiMarch 14, 2023
Being a Software Engineer Why I moved to Big Tech I've been at Microsoft a year and some change now. Before that, I've worked at two other companies whose main product was not software related…Lulu NgeiOctober 8, 2022
Being a Software Engineer My Worst Deadline Yet and What I Learnt Dealing With a Shifting Deadline In the not so distant past, my team and I had to squeeze in a month’s work into a week, 4.5 days to be exact.…Lulu NgeiSeptember 15, 2022
Being a Software EngineerLearning Exception Handling in C++ An exception is an event at program runtime that alters the normal flow of the code. It can also be considered an error. C++ provides…Lulu NgeiJuly 11, 2022
Being a Software EngineerLearning Code Smell: Why booleans are bad function parameters We've probably had a time where we've added a boolean as a function parameter more than once and been satisfied and proud with our judgement.…Lulu NgeiJuly 11, 2022
Being a Software EngineerLife 1 Year At Microsoft I recently marked one year at Microsoft. The lessons and experiences alone are enough to make me feel like it's been way over a year.…Lulu NgeiMay 20, 2022
Learning The Wonderful World Of Git Rebase This chapter of the explained series is a simple and mildly detailed explanation of git rebase . If you've had to rebase a git branch…Lulu NgeiFebruary 8, 2022