Achievements this week included:OK - a great day with our new boss Anand - beginnings of planning for the new financial year - kicking off my mission to get the whole UK DPE team living Windows 8 - plans for getting out to talk about Windows 8 with people who want to know (if you … Continue reading Weeknote 96: New beginnings
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Sometimes I get fixated on random things... like press buttons on toilet cisterns. You know the ones - a circle, with two sections (usually a big "ying" and a little "yang"), one which does a long flush, and the other that does a short flush. The short flush is the more sustainable, less water used … Continue reading A UI Paradox
A thought has been bouncing around my head for a few weeks, and a check on Dictionary.com last night seemed to validate it (I'm not sure that that is a rigorous scientific method, but heck, this is 2012). The IT Industry, it seems, is the only place where the term "legacy" is used in a negative way. In most … Continue reading Negative legacy
Spending the week on the Normandy coast has brought home not only the sheer carnage of what happened here in the later stages of the Second World War, but also the incredible achievements of the allies in creating artificial ports and then shipping them across the channel. All, as my mum delighted in noting, without … Continue reading Weeknote 95: Normandy
Achievements this week included:- getting a process around apps generation in place- good meetings with various folk in London on Monday & Tuesday- input into new competency frameworks in development at the momentNext week (and the week after) - I'm on holiday! Will be using the fortnight as an opportunity to pick out some blog … Continue reading Weeknote 94 – now that’s what I call a good Friday
How long will we still use the terms "mobile" and "phone"? It's a question that's come to mind as I read Charles Arthur's book Digital Wars, which is an entertaining view of the last 10 years or so of corporate competition between Google, Microsoft and Apple.In many ways, the term seems outdated. Most computing devices … Continue reading Nomenclature
One of the other threads that came up in my conversation with Tim Dunn earlier in the week was around the topic of APIs. One of the most significant technical developments that has accompanied the growth of consumer/social technology services in recent years has been how so much of it has been powered by openly … Continue reading APIs everywhere…
I had a very useful catch up today with Tim Dunn who is Director of Strategy at Isobar Mobile. We covered off a number of subjects, but one thing that came out towards the end of the conversation was a new reason for why one might build an app, rather than a website (following on … Continue reading Intrinsic value
Achievements on my 52nd week at Microsoft included: - trained up in how to deal with journalists (about bloomin' time, some may argue) - getting the slides together for the ITDF presentation (not due for a month, but with holidays and so on there's no time like the present) - great conversations with devs attending … Continue reading Weeknote 93: first anniversary
Putting aside views on the political sense behind senior government members' recent comments on the potential fuel tanker driver strike, it's interesting that the net result seems to have been a real-world incarnation of the classic game theory model, The Prisoner's Dilemma. The game, created in the 1950s by game theorists at RAND, goes something … Continue reading The prisoners’ petrol dilemma
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