Hey all. So, another week is over and we now know the final two candidates for the Conservative leadership election. I continue to believe that the likely winner will be Liz Truss but again things can change. It is to be noted though members will start voting pretty much from August (we won’t know result until September) so the clock will be ticking for Rishi Sunak to try and win members over before they vote.
You may have taken note of the lack of introductory small talk but actually the above is my version of introductory small talk because I could not really think of anything else. You can read my quick post on the topic here.
Course Drawing to a Close
Well, the learning on the course I am currently doing has come to an end. This week we did Application Development Fundamentals, the final live class week.
It went over… well… developing an application on the ServiceNow platform. Now, applications in ServiceNow are perhaps not exactly what you may be thinking. The Applications are made on the platform (using things such as Studio and App Engine Studio – includes lots of low-code/no-code, but as always advanced scripting options are available.)
Application Development on ServiceNow is done for the benefit of companies for use on Service Portals for example. They can be aimed at employees or customers or both. If an application is really good it can be released on to the ServiceNow store, maybe it will even end up becoming default if really good…
When creating applications in ServiceNow the aim usually is to transform an existing businesses process/processes into a singular more powerful and efficient application with intuitive user design in mind.
It’s pretty important 1. for getting a job with a ServiceNow partner for example and 2. because the final project is going to have us in teams building our own application over the next two weeks that we will then showcase to employers basically.
I am pretty nervous. More so about working in a team. Hopefully it works out… and I need to come up with some ideas.
New Blog Idea
Speaking of ideas I did come up with one today but for this blog. I was thinking about my special interest – capital cities – which I can remember at least 190 from memory (and that’s even after a few years of not practicing or writing them down in lists over and over again). And so I was thinking what if I could make my special interest into some kind of new future blogging series.
At first I thought ‘but how, what can I really say apart from me knowing them quite well from memory?’. But then I realised I was being a bit silly because capital cities after all… are CITIES (not just names stored in my brain) and like countries they have a wealth of history and interesting information around them.
So I have decided to start a series where I go A-Z through each country (similar to how I currently am with the Government System series, which will start up again soon!) and type up a blog about its (current) capital city. Historical and interesting facts focused.
I feel like this focus will be a lot more niche so it will be harder (especially for some of the really obscure ones) to look in other particular better-known areas to find similar information on them in one place (like you can with countries). Yeah, there is Wikipedia, but even then the information there is not as filled out as it usually is with countries. So hopefully that could start a new bit of traffic to my blog… maybe.
So, I am hoping to research in various areas on the capital cities – books, online, archives, articles, etc. I will be taking my time with it so they can be the best I can make them. Now, this will not start yet but hopefully by September when I have more time.
And maybe I can also do some bonus posts here and there on former capital cities and other major cities of the world. Some countries (like Brasil, Australia, and Kazakhstan etc) have ‘planned’ modern capitals and so information on them perhaps won’t be as extensive, although I’ll still dig as much information on them as I can find and that is interesting – but I may supplement with other cities.
So for Kazakhstan I may cover both Nur-Sultan and then its former capital city Astana – for example.
Anyway, I am looking forward to starting this new idea.
Well, that’s it for this week. Have a good weekend.
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