Expanding horizons

I ran a youth workshop on Friday afternoon where people could build light-up 3D paper houses.  There are single page instructions at paper house , and also instructions to make card that ligh...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2024/05/paper-circuits-at-electromagnetic-field.html

The year 6 Fleetville Code Club has kept going during all through lockdown – we spent a lot of time in Minecraft, which worked pretty well for virtual sessions, since we were all sharing the s...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2021/05/microbit-music-making.html

I’ve been running a Code Club at Fleetville Junior School in St Albans for the past four years and we have a whole load of fun programming and making things with computers. About a year and a...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2016/06/bringing-real-world-into-minecraft.html

Last month Facebook invited mobile developers into their London offices for a collaborative discussion on scaling mobile development. The focus was mainly on native development — and the atte...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2016/03/mobileatscale-2016.html

There’s a definite buzz in the air around watches this week — with the Apple Watch due for pre-order tomorrow and Pebble Time just finished its Kickstarter… Here’s my notes from tonight...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2015/04/pebble-meetup-london.html

I really like the idea of Raspberry Pis for education, but I've not yet managed to get them to work in the primary school where I run my Code Club . The school has roaming laptops, iPads and iPod...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2015/01/the-easiest-way-to-use-raspberry-pis-in.html

Took me a little while to prepare my notes for the second day of The Web Is… conference, mainly due to an ‘orrible cold that developed over the last week. I hope I haven’t given it to the l...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2014/10/the-web-is-day-two.html

Another excellent conference from Craig Lockwood — and this is only the first day. I’m always impressed by the groundedness and open-hearted feeling I get when I attend Craig’s conferenc...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2014/10/another-excellent-conference-from-craig.html

So that was a pretty busy weekend! Thank you to all the organisers and the sponsors for yet another amazing BarCamp London. If you don’t know what a BarCamp is, go read about how it works , a...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2014/09/barcamplondon-x.html

Amazingly enough this demo night finished on time and even a little bit early. Thanks to Julia Shalet for keeping things running smoothly on the night and Jo Rabin too for the varied selection ...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2014/09/momolondon-demo-night-2014.html

This weekend I went to a different kind of conference — not a technology one, but a parenting one (though with some technology involved!). The conference was Kidcrafters — a day of talks b...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2014/05/kidcrafters-day-of-talks-by-parents-for.html

A new venue tonight — up on the 9th floor of Google’s Central St Giles office. They even provided good food for the hungry mobile mondayers… The evening’s focus was on Cloud Computing a...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2014/05/momolondon-cloud-computing-mobile.html

An amazing conference, in a beautiful venue, with fantastic speakers and extra entertainment as bonus! Craig Lockwood created something magnificent today — and then told us there won’t be an...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/11/handheld-conference-2013.html

Last year’s Handheld Conference was a great event, with several of the sessions winning awards as the best talks of the year. This year, it’s got bigger and even comes with a fringe event ...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/11/handheld-conference-2013-port80-fringe.html

10 companies competing to win a place on the UKTI stand at Mobile World Congress 2014 and press & media activity to go with it. ICT KTN , Mobile Monday London , UKTI and Cambridge Wireless all ...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/11/momolondon-mwc2014-stand-competition.html

I went to Droidcon UK last week and my brain is still catching up… So many new ideas (and good ones too!). I’ve put together several posts from Droidcon 2013 — this one gathers all the s...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/10/droidcon-2013.html

Ty Smith, Twitter (ex-Evernote) @tsmith e.g. Samsung Note S Note app — locally synced with S Note grouping in built-in Evernote tapping on a note in Evernote, opens it in S Note; then back but...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/10/droidcon-2013-app-to-app-design-surface.html

Taylor Ling, http://AndroidUIUX.com attention to detail ANIMATIONS find balance between subtle & noticeable should provide information make sure to use standard animations e.g. don’t chang...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/10/droidcon-2013-awesomeness-checklist.html

Matthias Käppler, Soundcloud @mttkay Matt has written his own blog post to accompany his talk. this talk is about functional reactive programming but without talking about monads or other ma...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/10/droidcon-2013-conquering-concurrency.html

Juhani Lehtimäki, Smashing Android UI Presentation available online alternative to master/detail — grid view works the same way with adapters can adjust number of columns in values to adjus...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/10/droidcon-2013-responsive-design-for.html

Kenton Price, Little Fluffy Toys http://www.littlefluffytoys.mobi Presentation available online SUMMLY Android has algorithm on client as Android screens come in different sizes insisted ...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/10/droidcon-2013-ridding-the-world-of-iphoneys.html

Pierre-Yves Ricau, Square @piwai Sample project: http://github.com/pyricau/shipfaster look out for talk later at devoxx about how square got rid of fragments debug panel in app, slides from r...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/10/droidcon-2013-ship-faster-with-open.html

Hans Dockter, CEO Gradleware & Founder of Gradle @hansd http://gradle.org http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system BUILDTYPES automatically picks up different source & resou...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/10/droidcon-2013-gradle-for-android.html

Dan Lew @danlew42 & Chris Arvin @meinhyperspeed , Expedia created a sample app to show ideas: http://goo.gl/XCyLWl default holo vs customized UI finding interesting ways to interact holo is gr...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/10/droidcon-2013-unique-delightful.html

Chris Bridges, Surrey Space Centre, @DrChrisBridges STRaND-1 Nanosatellite SPACE IS OLD TECH! catch-22 with electronics in space: if it hasn’t flown, we can’t fly it most electronics ...

http://blog.cohen-rose.org/2013/10/droidcon-2013-phones-in-space.html