Memories of WWDC
It's that time of year when the Apple developer community prepares for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), an annual gathering in San Francisco...
The (not so) little things: day to day decision making
What is the day to day reality of working on a project? There are thousands of blog posts written about strategy, product thinking, design, methodology bu...
David Cameron is committing crimes against typography
Number 10 is now on Slideshare. That’s right, the slide hosting service loved by professionals and thought leaders around the world has been joined by the...
How we do CSS at Made by Many
This write-up aims to summarise our thinking about how to write CSS. It’s grown out of lots of conversations around best practices seen elsewhere, and ult...
Replacing Rails: Part 3 - Go and deploy!
One of the sweeter things in go is most definitely deployment! Gone are the annoyances of setting up a server with the right version of Ruby (probably hav...
The 20 things you should know when designing for classrooms
Download the accompanying report at the end of this post to discover more about co-designing education services with teachers.Collaboratively designing wi...
Position closed: What the hell’s an embedded storyteller and why are we hiring one?
Made by Many is trying to hire an ‘in-house journalist’. The inverted commas are my apology for the horrible term, but job titles are hard. Why are we hir...
High Fi
Why Project Fi is more than a technology story
The Web looks super boring and that's okay
Once upon a time several months ago, a Marc Kremers interview on the matters of Web design provoked some serious debate here at Made by Many. Things got p...
Getting started with Swift and WatchKit
In the second of my blogs on Swift I will look at WatchKit for the newly released Apple Watch. This will involve adding Watch functionality to an existing...
Replacing Rails: Part 2 - Amazing Tooling
I come from a compiled language background (C, Objective-C) and I've been thinking for some time now that Rails isn't always the best tool for the job. Me...
Apple Watch: What can you do with it?
I’ve been lucky enough to get hold of an actual physical Apple Watch now since Friday. I’ve worn it over the weekend and of course, played around with bui...
Replacing Rails: Part 1 "Lets Go!"
Rails has been, whether I like it or not, a pretty big chunk of my life. When I first started charging for my work, Rails was new and it seemed like a com...
The Times took Sir Trevor where we never imagined
When you open source a project, you might be surprised by some of the uses people find for it.
What is a Debian package?
For the past year or so we’ve made an effort here at Made by Many to start embracing more tried and tested approaches to releasing software. After having ...
Supercharge your Google Form with Google Apps Script!
I love Google Docs, and with just a little bit of JavaScript, you can supercharge any of your Google Docs using Google Apps Script. In this blog, I'll sho...
Exploring Swift with Playgrounds
This is the first of a series of blogs about using Swift, Apple's new programming language that was annouced at WWDC 2014. They are not in any particular ...
Bzzzt! Opening the door using WebSockets and a Raspberry Pi
A few of us Many have been playing around with hardware here over the past year or two. Being a purely software orientated person myself I found hardware ...