by Martin | Oct 24, 2016 | Education, Nerdiness
I tried to do a PGCE back in 2004 (which didn’t entirely go to plan) and I have a really clear memory if a few specific things. One such thing was around the idea of preferred learning styles, as presented by Howard Gardner as “multiple...
by Martin | Mar 16, 2016 | Education, Nerdiness
Many moons ago (2003) I did a PGCE in secondary science, most of which seemed to be teaching sex education every other week. There were many lows and a few highs, one of which was a particular lesson that I did based on my degree (biochemistry). More recently I...
by Martin | Jul 13, 2014 | Business, Mobile, Nerdiness
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 | Jan 3, 2014 | Mobile, Nerdiness
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 | Apr 27, 2013 | Education, Mobile, Nerdiness
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 | Sep 10, 2012 | Nerdiness
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...
