by Martin | Feb 23, 2013 | Business, Mobile | 0 Comments
As some of you may know, Karmr is a social network for actions. It works a lot like other social networks except that, in the same way as Instagram and Vine chose to focus on a specific media type, we chose to focus on a topic type – things that people did....
by Martin | Sep 10, 2012 | Nerdiness | 0 Comments
I recently upgraded my iMac to Mountain Lion and like a bunch of people had a fairly annoying issue where certain things just crashed. In fact pretty much the first thing I did was try to add a Twitter account though System Preferences. It was all fine until I hit the...
by Martin | Jul 26, 2012 | Mobile, Nerdiness | 0 Comments
I had to make a function that morphed the contents of an area in a Cocos2d game recently and I came across the problem of blending the effect inside my affected area with the outside. To overcome this and remove the sharp transition that was visible I created a couple...
by Martin | Jun 15, 2012 | Education | 0 Comments
There is no doubt that computing and computer science are huge part of both our economy and society. Technology changes at a huge rate and unfortunately the UK education system hasn’t kept up very well. At current ICT lessons mainly focus on how to use software...
by Martin | Jun 1, 2012 | Mobile, Nerdiness | 0 Comments
A common requirement in any data driven Android app is the ability to download data asynchronously. This might be to lookup locations for a Google Maps view or to acquire dynamic app data. In order to do this you need to create a nested inner class that extends the...
by Martin | Mar 31, 2012 | Education | 0 Comments
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 | 0 Comments
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 | 1 Comment
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 | 0 Comments
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 | 0 Comments
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...
