Wow – looking back over my posts, my last review of the year was in 2013. Interestingly it feels like I’ve just had a very similar year and I’m feeling excited about 2019, the same way that I was for 2014! During the course of 2018, I’ve had 4 roles in 3 different companies –…
Just recently I’ve been to a few talks about Kotlin and been reading up about Android Architectural Components. I’ve also had an idea for a really basic app playing around in my mind for a while, so it seems a perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. I’ve already had a play with…
Last week I finally got around to coaching at Brighton Code Bar, something I’ve been meaning to do for at least a year or so now (and apologies for taking so long). If, like me, you’ve been considering this but have worried about what you can contribute, then please just volunteer and don’t worry. The…
A recent discussion at work made me realise that over the past few years learning Android development I’ve managed to build a short but very useful list of links for starting out. Not a really detailed post this time around, but hopefully these links help at least one person, let me know! Development environment: We…
I’m just looking at my post from last year “looking forward to 2013”! I’m still in a hands-on development role, but now in a different company. Many of my goals for last year are still relevant for this year. Time management has to be right at the top of them; getting the right work/life balance…
I’m trying to start up on project Euler again, one thing I do like is that it highlights how poor some of my maths knowledge actually is. Neither school or college covered many of these algorithms; which is a bit of a surprise given that I did a four-year mechanical apprenticeship with applied mathematics…..still never…
I’ve just spent a useful and enjoyable day finally getting around to reading Clean Code, definitely a book to come back to time and again for reference, etc. However, given the subject matter, the book contains I was amazed to find in the section about “magic numbers” a statement that “some constants are so easy to…
The challenge set by problem 18 was By starting at the top of the triangle below and moving to adjacent numbers on the row below, the maximum total from top to bottom is 23. 3 7 4 2 4 6 8 5 9 3 That is, 3 + 7 + 4 + 9 = 23….