Hi, I'm Andrew Lilley. I am a Full Stack Developer who is interesting in broadening my development knowledge. I have been a Developer for over 16 years. However, in all that time, I have not made a website for myself. Now I have some time.
In late April, 2020, I was informed that I would be furloughed as part of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. This allows a company to claim a percentage of a salary which they then use to pay their employee. However, a condition of the scheme is that you cannot do any work for that company.
For me the simple answer is training courses. For quite some time now, I have been developing in Drupal and associated tech. Furthermore, the majority of that work has been in sub Drupal 8 versions. Drupal 9 has now been released. Therefore, this is a great opportunity to up skill. I have decided to create this website to document my journey as I try out different training courses and gain new skills.
At Drupalcon Amsterdam 2019, I went to a presentation by the Gatsby Team. I was intrigued by the offering. Therefore, that seemed like a good place to start my journey. I have built this website using Gatsby as a way of learning about it with the help of Gatsby JS - The Great Gatsby Bootcamp on YouTube.
Since beginning this journey, I have moved on to doing React courses. I also now have a backlog of courses to tackle. I have courses lined up for GraphQL, Typescript, Node.js, Vue.js and Deno. My thoughts and links to the demo applications are all available on the training courses section.
I was recalled back into work in November 2020. Since then I have been putting into practise what I learned from the various training courses. It was definitely worthwhile doing them.
In terms of React, I have moved onto much more advanced features that are not really covered in the courses that I did. I have worked on and delivered commercial projects in React and there are more to come.
I will now retain and keep up to date this website as a means of tracking my continuous professional development.
If you would like to reach out to me or would like to know some more, you can visit my LinkedIn profile.