Seeing as it's been officially released into the wild now, I'm pleased to say that I've written an article for Fourth Source, an independent online digital media marketing publication. The article is "Developing an effective mobile strategy".

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At Lightmaker, our strategic work often revolves around gathering the opinions of others and feeding these into our plans for projects. Whether stakeholders or users, asking the right questions and opening topics up to discussion can often help uncover views that would otherwise have been missed.

When working on internal business strategy I think it's important to bear the same principles in mind, and as such I recently carried out a survey of all UK studio staff in order to get their opinions on technical change. Allowing the business to grow organically around technologies and processes that are important to the teams who make the magic happen, rather than dictating top-down can help to ensure that workflows effectively keep up with the fast-paced changes in the industry.

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Regular readers (hi Mum), may notice that things are looking a bit different around here. After a long, drawn out process, I have finally put up the latest incarnation of my site.

Those of you visiting on a mobile or tablet device will likely notice the most difference, as I've gone responsive. Responsive design is something that I really believe in, and it was important to me to start making some changes to reflect that.

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Developers hate inefficiencies. We hate repetitive tasks. We hate having to re-type something we've not 30 seconds ago typed in on a different device, especially considering we're likely surrounded by about 10 of the damn things. This is why I love Adobe Shadow.

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It was announced last week that the UK government will be replacing the current Information and Communications Technology curriculum with that of a Computer Science focused course.

In a move that has been strongly welcomed by the development community, it will mean a dramatic about turn from this time last year when the government were then considering making ICT a non-compulsory part of the curriculum.

As someone who studied ICT throughout my school life, taking qualifications at GCSE level (age 14-16), then IT at AS and A-Level (age 16-18) I think that this is a great move. The current system revolves heavily around theory rather than practice, and is often criticised for the extent that the Microsoft Office suite is taught, with a key observation being that it seems to teach students how to be end-users rather than creators. In a world that revolves so heavily around digital, this is a real shame on several levels.

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