Featured Skills
Streaming Media
Streaming media work undertaken with the BBC, ITV, Digital Theatre and Jalipo.
Mobile Development
Work includes UX, project and testing management for one of the worlds first smart phones the Pogo, Objective-C for Digital Theatre and using Ionic, Cordova and Angularjs for the Give For Free cross-platform app.
Games
Working with games company Gamesys on the Facebook game and design tools for Here Be Monsters. Responsible for mentoring on UK Media Networks isometric games framework.
Software Architecture
Responsible for long term architectural conception, development and maintenance of UK Media Network’s J2EE, ActionScript and e-learning development frameworks included in work for the likes of BT, Pfizer, Cisco and Panasonic.
Mentoring
Provided mentoring in software development at the BBC, presented at ITV and for business masters students at E-Business Leaders. I also volunteer to teach the Introduction to Algorithms to primary school children.
Publications
Provided source materials and helped as a beta reader for The Cucumber Book and Cucumber Recipes.
Business Administration
Founded, project managed and managed all aspects of Flash Quartermaster, Godz Record Distribution and Give For Free.
About
Working in many different areas Flash Quartermaster has constantly risen to the challenge of a changing technological world from web development, software, branding, user experience, print design and testing.
Providing diverse consultancy for many clients including the BBC, ITV, Panasonic, BT, Cisco, Pfizer and Renault Formula 1
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Full Stack
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Test Driven
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Agile
The Team
Tom Coxen
Zoe Rhodes
Want to see some code? Here's my open source project Give For Free
Latest News
Robot Bebop Tutorial: Using Chained Midi FX To Create A Jazz Ensemble From One Note In Logic Pro X
Have a listen and Splice the tutorial files if you like it. Available at https://splice.com/h-bar/more-hoopla-for-your-mooplah-mr-muffin-man. Then have a look at the tutorial. Here is a tutorial on how to chain midi FX to create a jazz ensemble from one note in Logic Pro X.
Give For Free is now an Open Source project!
Really pleased to open source GFF. It just makes sense that a project that is about giving to charity for free should itself be free. The new home of GFF is https://github.com/flashquartermaster/Give-For-Free. Enjoy!
Xcode 8 UPDATE: Automated cross platform testing of iOS and Android hybrid Ionic/Cordova/Angular apps using Cucumber, Protractor, Chai and Appium
Xcode 8 and macOS Sierra Update You can view the original article here Before you start a word of WARNING. Do not run ‘ionic serve’ and ‘appium’ at the same time. There is a conflict at localhost:8100 and appium will not be able to create a new session. If you’ve upgraded to Xcode 8 you Read more about Xcode 8 UPDATE: Automated cross platform testing of iOS and Android hybrid Ionic/Cordova/Angular apps using Cucumber, Protractor, Chai and Appium[…]
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If you are using OneSignal for your push notifications in your Ionic project then here’s a useful hook to automatically copy your custom icons into your android resources folder. The OneSignal Ionic SDK installation is here and the note about custom android notification icons is here which links to the custom android notification generator. Once Read more about How To Automatically Copy OneSignal Custom Notification Icons Into The Android Resources Directories For Ionic Projects[…]
Automated cross platform testing of iOS and Android hybrid Ionic/Cordova/Angular apps using Cucumber, Protractor, Chai and Appium
Important Note This article was written before Xcode 8 came out. Using Xcode 8 will cause the code in this tutorial to break. The information on how to update this tutorial for iOS testing is here. I am currently fixing the problems with using Appium Beta (1.6.0) with Android and will follow up with Read more about Automated cross platform testing of iOS and Android hybrid Ionic/Cordova/Angular apps using Cucumber, Protractor, Chai and Appium[…]