In my role as team lead on a mobile apps team I receive a lot of emails extolling the virtues of one developer or another. Unfortunately not many of these emails actually tell me anything about the who the candidate is that they are pushing me to talk to. The…
Came across this post on the stable/kernel blog when scanning through Twitter and it so beautifully summed up my thoughts on StackOverflow and it's pitfalls for developers. The truth to StackOverflow is that there are some gems scattered through the site, but most of the time you are going…
Material is making developers lives easier when it comes to creating a passable user interface, and in the hands of some a truly enjoyable UI. The one big problem I have with it is that there is a tendency for designers and developers to go too strict on the use…
I've liked the style used on the Cooper Hewitt website for a while now and was intrigued to learn that the font used in the branding on the site has been opensourced. As UI design is one of those things that I have been trying to improve on for a…
I recenty saw a post from Jake Wharton about something called Kotlin, from IntelliJ, which seemed to take a lot of the pain out of developing in Java and had the added bonus of being compatible for android development. When I took a look at Kotlin one possibility immediately jumped…
I thought I would share a quick win should you decide to migrate over to Gradle to manage your Android build process. This little tip is all about centralising what can be an annoying part of working with a language that is continually in flux, managing dependency versions. Gradle has…