Category: General

I had the opportunity to find out a bit more about the Kinect SDK for Windows in a session held at the Microsoft Campus on Tuesday morning. If you aren't aware of it, the development kit provides a series of software tools to allow developers to use the Kinect controller in the Windows environment. There … Continue reading Kinecting

I'm recruiting at the moment - looking for a new Audience Marketing Manager to co-ordinate marketing activity in the UK for the IT Professional community (ie people working in IT outside of development). There is full detail here: http://bit.ly/iVG2d8, but feel free to drop me a line if you want more information.

I arrived back in Portsmouth on Saturday night after a two-week break with the family in the Charente region of France. For the entire two weeks, I was offline, and I struggle to remember such an extended period when I wasn't in some way connected to the Internet in the last decade. Partly this was … Continue reading Time out

Achievements this week included: - a valuable two-day off-site session with my leadership team colleagues - getting focus for the next financial year in the evangelism team (it's probably a process thing) - getting up to speed with all that is Windows 8 (that we know so far...) - a catch up with Trudy from … Continue reading Weeknote 53: Awaydays and bank holidays

12 months ago I started weeknoting. You can read the first one here: http://bit.ly/kumHWB. It's turned into a useful habit, and one that I (for the foreseeable future at least) intend to keep up. Taking ten minutes at the end of a week to quickly reflect on things that have happened is a useful exercise … Continue reading Yearnote 1

Achievements this week included: - watching many of the team in action at UK Tech.Days (nice work, chaps) - a productive meeting with community leaders from UK-based user groups - lunch and all things cloud with @justinpirie - another lunch with @em_stone - and another lunch with @mrsimonking at Imagination - a fascinating afternoon at … Continue reading Weeknote 52: Out and About

I spent a fascinating couple of hours on Tuesday afternoon at the Royal College of Art, at an event organised by Design London, a joint venture between the RCA and neighbour Imperial College. The aim of the group is to fuse academic disciplines from design, engineering and management schools to help develop new products and … Continue reading Lacking empathy

Last week I had an interesting conversation with the Head of IT from one of London's arts theatres. They were contemplating the replacement of their ticketing systems, and in our chat it seemed that cloud platforms might offer an interesting alternative approach for them. My first question was why ticketing wasn't just outsourced entirely to … Continue reading Starting start-ups

A rewarding day yesterday at the first of my team's UK Tech.Day events in West London. It gave me the opportunity to see many of my guys in presentation action, and get the background on some of our newer technologies (Lync, as an aside, looks market-changing). Probably the most rewarding session, though, came in the … Continue reading Communities