by Martin | Apr 13, 2015 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
I do a lot of things to do with startups – we have a bunch of mobile startup clients at TBC Digital and I mentor on Oxygen accelerator plus others for a couple of touch points. This means I talk to a lot of startup founders and I say the a lot of the same things...
by Martin | Jul 13, 2014 | Business, Mobile, Nerdiness | 0 Comments
I’ve had two freelance developer careers, both of which have turned into an agency. The first was as a web developer from roughly 1998 to 2006 which became “MS Internet” and exited by trade sale. The second was far more recently as a freelance mobile...
by Martin | Feb 23, 2014 | Education | 0 Comments
Tonight Ofsted hosted #sltchat on Twitter. This was a pretty huge thing in my view and I really hope it marks the beginning of a more human Ofsted. Time will tell I guess. A great deal of the conversation though tonight was on the subject of lesson observations and...
by Martin | Jan 3, 2014 | Mobile, Nerdiness | 0 Comments
I had a project recently where I needed to create a horizontally scrolling paged grid of grids. The app started as a single 3 x 3 grid so I did the obvious and created a UIView with sub views. This evolved into each subview being a UIButton subclass that took a number...
by Martin | Jun 18, 2013 | Business | 0 Comments
Dear McDonalds UK, I, like millions of other people in the UK and globally cannot eat gluten. This isn’t a choice. It isn’t that I want to eat a healthy diet – I want to not be ill; which is what gluten makes me be. As I am sure you are aware the...
by Martin | May 25, 2013 | Business | 1 Comment
I go to quite a few networking events; dinners, talks, conferences and the like. I go to them because I almost always learn something and because I almost always meet someone interesting. A favourite of mine is 9others, which limits the number of attendees to 10 and...
by Martin | Apr 27, 2013 | Education, Mobile, Nerdiness | 0 Comments
Facebook are famous for their hacking culture and employees frequently participate in internal hackathons to try out new ideas and generally build something cool that will impress their peers. Reportedly as many as 70% of hackathon projects ship and notable Facebook...
by Martin | Apr 13, 2013 | Business | 0 Comments
“Doing a startup” isn’t easy. Reading tech blogs makes it looks easy. People with obscure ideas seem to raise inordinate amounts of funding with no actual product. Look at Color for pity’s sake...
by Martin | Mar 12, 2013 | Education | 0 Comments
I recently ran a workshop on algorithms in the school where I am a governor (Bewdley Primary School) for a more able group of upper Key Stage 2 pupils (aged 9-11) from three of our four local primaries. This was in many ways the follow up to a workshop I ran last year...
by Martin | Mar 12, 2013 | Business, Mobile | 0 Comments
It is undeniable that social media is a hugely powerful thing. Be it the ability to share your life’s experiences with friends and family on Facebook, follow up-to-the-minute buzz on Twitter or create photo or video logs of your life on Instagram or Vine, social...
