Posts authored by Matt Andrews:


Friday, 31 October 2014

MozFest 2014: creative chaos – in the best possible way
Matt Andrews

A review of the annual festival of technology, the web, your rights online and journalism

Computing   Conferences   Programming  

The crowd at MozFest 2014 posing for the traditional group photo

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

#dareconf 2014 review: people skills for digital workers
Matt Andrews

The Guardian’s digital development team’s thoughts on an event that’s not your usual technical conference

Conferences   Work & careers  

#dareconf organiser Jonathan Kahn introducing the event.

Thursday, 15 August 2013

Young Rewired State 2013: mentoring the tech stars of tomorrow
Jenny Sivapalan, Alastair Jardine, Will Franklin, Matt Andrews

Some of the Guardian's digital development team describe a day mentoring young coders for the annual Festival of Code by Young Rewired State

Programming  

The crowd at Young Rewired State 2013

Thursday, 18 October 2012

Responsive design at the Guardian: an introduction
Matt Andrews

An overview of what responsive design is and how we're planning to make use of it at the Guardian

Help  

Responsive design: the same Guardian webpage, rendered on multiple devices

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Discovery Week Diary: Day Two
Matt Andrews

After two full days of work, here's what our teams have created so far during Discovery Week, an experimental and learning process to look at the next phase of the Guardian's digital future.

Guardian Discovery Week 2012  

A wireframe sketch for an enhancement to commenting

Monday, 16 July 2012

Discovery Week Diary: Day One
Matt Andrews

A roundup of how the first day of our week-long experimental collaboration project went

Guardian Discovery Week 2012  

Discovery Week project board

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Music Hack Day London 2011: a developer's view
Matt Andrews

The latest Hack Day featured hundreds of developers coming together to make something music related

Hack day   Kinect   Last.fm   Music   Spotify  


Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Business:designed
Matt Andrews, Mariana Santos

How Edinburgh students were challenged to think about the news domain in new ways

Smartphones   Tablet computers  

Sticking Post-It notes on the window

Friday, 11 March 2011

SXSW 2011: How we made our interactive band tracker
Alastair Dant, Lisa van Gelder, Matt Andrews

A hack weekend here, a site scrape there and pretty soon we had this wonderful new tool for tracking artists at the SXSW festival • Check out our SXSW 2011 band tracker

Culture   Guardian Hacks SXSW   Justin Bieber   Last.fm   Music   SXSW  

SXSW

Thursday, 16 December 2010

Switching to Google-hosted jQuery
Matt Andrews

A brief summary of guardian.co.uk's recent changes to its Javascript framework

Google   X  

Tin cans

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Six things I've learned about web development working at the Guardian
Matt Andrews

Client-side developer Matt Andrews on some of the things he wishes he'd known before

Computing  

desktop computer