Over the last ten years I’ve made a few toy Android apps, mainly to see if I can, but sometimes to scratch an itch. That itch has returned, and wow, the first-time experience for getting started with Android Studio really really hasn’t gotten any better. Download and install: fine The first sample I want to try: requires a Canary version of Android Studio T...

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I have bought Go: The Complete Developer’s Guide on Udemy. It’s been a good intro so far, but there are more than 90 videos, and I’d quite like to do some each day at work, where streaming video isn’t always allowed. The author of this course has allowed his videos to be downloaded, but that’s on a video-by-video basis...

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Hi, I'm Rob, an A-level work experience student who was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to join the digital team last week. The past week has been a great experience, after being introduced to the self proclaimed king of the nerds and the rest of the team it was straight to work with Tom on the development of a replacement application for the old

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Building a modern website which also performs well is hard. The amount of JavaScript and CSS we add to our pages is going up, but we still need to keep them loading quickly. Tools like Grunt and Gulp help us manage thes...

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According to Microsoft's own stats, Internet Explorer 6 still accounts for more than 20% of web browser usage within China. Around a quarter of our 4,500 international students are Chinese (source PDF) and so we've always been really hesistant about switching o...

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Edge Hill University recently launched a new website. It's HTML5. We're overdue an update to the list of

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You're a PHP or Java web developer looking for a challenge, a 6 month contract, and to earn up to 17,823 pounds. As it happens, we've got the perfect opening and you can apply right now! We're looking for someone with a passion for developing friendly, usable applications to help us revamp the the process our students go through when they apply t...

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A few weeks ago I got the chance to be the first to make use of our innovation time. After watching a demo on hacks.mozilla.org I wanted to experiment with HTML5 and Firefox's new support for drag and drop of files from your d...

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So what an exciting first few weeks back we’ve had! We started off nice and easy, picking up all the support requests that had been filed over the Christmas break and, after a suggestion from Kelvin last year, put together a demo of an augmented reality map of the University campus using Layar (which I will post more about later). We also started pr...

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As of this time last year, the University Academic Year Charts have been generated in HTML, PDF and iCalendar formats from Excel spreadsheets. Previously there were only PDFs for download but we thought that providing versions to view live on the web and a version people could add to their own calendar software would be useful...

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