Author: mark.edgington

  • Bima Digital Day 2013

     The BIMA Digital Day is about making young people aware of the opportunities within Britain’s burgeoning digital industry – a sector which not only uses technology and applications beloved of youngsters but which also promises them a career which offers higher than average salaries and features working environments characterised by being that bit more relaxed than those…

  • How to Publish to the Amazon Kindle & IBooks

    The key things you need to know and do to publish to the Amazon Kindle and IBooks.

  • Are you having Issues with project managers?

    Project managers are responsible for projects success, regardless of the obstacles. Often, most of the problems described above are due to skill deficiencies in the project manager. You likely need a process, a better policed process, training for your project managers or a few new ones!

  • Site Go-live Checklist

    When that sites about to go-live you had better do some checks. Here is a list to help you out.

  • HTML 5 vs Apps (and flash)

    I have had a few questions on this recently, so thought i would summarise the answers i gave her. Q. What are the advantages of apps and why would i want to use HTML 5 Native apps such as those deployed to a handset i.e IPhone have the following potential advantages: The can be feature rich and utilize phone…

  • Subversion and branching strategies

    What is Subversion Subversion is an open source application used for revision control. It is sometimes abbreviated to SVN in reference to the name of its command line interface. Subversion boasts many advanced features, such as atomic commits, versioned directories, and good support for binary file formats, fast branching and tagging. The open source Apache…

  • How to Interview a Developer

    First of all, the #1 criteria for getting hired: Smart, and Gets Things Done. Process Joel Spolsky is  a highly regarded software engineer and he  details how best to interview development candidates, this is an amended and augmented version of that process. see The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing Introduction Question about recent project candidate worked…

  • Mobile Statistics From 2010

    We all know that mobile is big business, so I thought I would jot down a few of the statistics and information that I have picked up through the later months of 2010: NOMOBS: Normal mobile users I.e. not a Smartphone (although I’ve only seen this used once, but I quite liked it) 75 %…

  • 100+ contacts, not one little wave in 5 months – Is google wave dead?

    Like many others i was interested to get hold of a Google wave account.  I tried to make the most of it for months, inviting many to join and testing waves and the varied add-ons.  But, it just seems to have no present use in my life, or by the looks of it any of…

  • Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF) – Back Surgery

    I recently had a back operation in February and only found articles that scared me half to death, so thought I’d write a little on my experience; hopefully to put you mind to rest. What is an Alif ? Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF) is a back surgery that involves approaching the spine through an…