I stopped advertising everywhere and nothing happened.
What happens when you turn off all of your Internet advertising? Apparently, nothing. This post explores how I came to the decision to turn off all ads, and what I found as a result.…
Lowering the bar.
Have you ever fallen into a well? Me either. It would have made a great excuse as to why I haven't written a single blog post in seven years. I'm lowering the bar for myself. Writing should be escapism, expression, writing should be sun drenched mornings after your only coffee…
Total Car Check and Open Data
When I first started Total Car Check [https://totalcarcheck.co.uk/], I knew that data would play a large part in the success of the organisation. There has been a big push over the past few years from this government to try and release as much data as possible in…
Developing a hybrid phone app with Monaca and Phonegap
Background What was the problem? We needed a phone app for our commercial application. Our web stack is built on ASP.net MVC and we use C# on the backend. Xamarin - Not right for us Naturally there has been alot of buzz around Xamarin, so I gave it a…
What is a startup anyway?
I've come to the conclusion that the word/phrase 'Start-up' is now totally without useful meaning. This has probably been true for a while, but I constantly see its use abused, conflated and inverted. Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup_company] defines it as: > Startup: a company, a partnership…
Tips for a .NET startup
Over the past two years I've been standing on the shoulders of giants (read: stealing code/ hiding my sources) in order to create and launch my start-up (oh how I hate calling it a start-up). So, if you use .Net and you'd like my opinion on some of the best…
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions. – Leonardo da Vinci
One thing that has recently become very apparent to me is that, in fact, people skills over any number of technical skills, are far more important in my career. This has become increasingly apparent as I have recently changed jobs, moving from a permanent position at a large “blue chip”…
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. – Carl W. Buechner
Last week I decided I was going to have a quiet weekend, so before I left the office on friday I took a look at our communial bookshelf and picked up a new book. This time it was the turn of “The art and science of javascript [http://www.amazon.…