Tips for Android Tablet Development

Posted by Nathan Wong on 5th November 2011

Last month the British Android community gathered together (with a sizable international presence, including the Bangalore Android Group) for Droidcon UK, a huge conference in the Islington Design Centre to discuss all things Android.

Whilst a full breakdown of the two days of talks, barcamp and democamp is still forthcoming, I thought that one thread that ran through the whole conference, as well as the Labs hosted by Google the day before, was worth exploring separately.

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Two days at Over the Air 2011

Posted by Nathan Wong on 21st October 2011

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to travel to the beautiful Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes for an event called Over The Air, a community-run conference for mobile development featuring an overnight hack-a-thon.

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Using HTML5 Boilerplate

Posted by Nathan Wong on 19th August 2011
Tagged: web development

Over the course of a number of small sites, I've been experimenting with a number of templates and tools to aid the development process. I might write about some of these at a later date; but most recently I've used the HTML5 Boilerplate. This template provides a number a of ready-made optimisations and tweaks to help standardise your site's rendering cross-browser.

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