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…
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…
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: >…
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…
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”…
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.…
I’ve always admired the quotes of Anne Frank, for several reasons. Firstly, even through translation her brevity and clarity are hard to match in any form of literature I’ve ever read. The quote “I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be…
You’ve probably heard the phrase “if you havent got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” … Why is there so much facebook hating going on, I seriously don’t understand it, do you remember MySpace? Of course they havent got everything right yet, but I’ve…
