Freelancing

I am a freelance Android Developer and I enjoy being one. But it would not suit everyone. In this non-technical post I’ll explain a bit about what that mean. I’ll also consider the good and the bad of what that entails.

Blogging: Ideation

On 28th March 2011 I published the first ever blog post to Styling Android. Almost 9 years later there are now, as this is published, some 458 published articles. When I first started out, I did not have a clue what I was doing, and some might say I still don’t! After writing so many…

Confidence

Confidence is both a strange and fragile thing. It is strange because there are two sides to it – how others might perceive you as being confident; and how confident you actually feel. I’m pretty sure that most people reading this will have had their confidence broken or damaged at some point so will not…

Qualifications

People are often surprised if I tell them that I do not have a university degree. I’m not someone who achieved a degree in a subject unrelated to computer science and then moved in to the field later in life. I chose not to go to university. In this non-technical post I’ll explain why I…