by Martin | Mar 31, 2012 | Education
A few weeks ago I wrote about a workshop that I ran at the primary school where I am a governor. It felt like I was doing something pretty important and I am still amazed at the response that my post had – even the Guardian picked it up and it has had over 1000...
by Martin | Mar 28, 2012 | Nerdiness
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I read – a lot! I also have a habit of reading several unrelated books at once which sometimes gives me different perspectives on things (although it isn’t deliberate). I was recommended to read a usability book...
by Martin | Feb 28, 2012 | Education
There has been a great deal of media attention centred around learning to code recently and some really great initiatives have come to light. Arguably leading the charge is Codecademy who are running a campaign to make 2012 ‘Code Year‘. This even reached...
by Martin | Feb 19, 2012 | Nerdiness
This was my PhD project which took me three years to complete and almost as long to write up! The gist of the project was to take the HyperSense instrument made by Oxford Instruments and improve the hit-rate of the experiments. I found some interesting stuff out in...
by Martin | Jan 19, 2012 | Business
I founded and ran a digital agency for seven years. In that time I helped launch around 300 businesses and watched as some did magnificently and others did, well nothing. As time went on I gained a feel for the projects that would do well and those that...
