Project achievements this week included: - beginning the FY12 planning process - planning for a potential Cloud Circle appearance And also: - further meetings with various people across the team and beyond - quarterly review meetings with the product business groups - realising that I might need to change the structure of my weeknotes as … Continue reading Weeknote 47: Planning begins
Category: Themes
The rapidly changing IT world in which we find ourselves is one where "traditional" thoughts about who is what are being challenged on a regular basis (as an aside, it still tickles me that we have concepts of "traditional" anything in IT, but there you go...). By way of example: Microsoft regards people who use … Continue reading Metamorphosis
There was a great bit of stage show at the MIX 2011 event in Las Vegas last week as the launch of the Kinect SDK was demoed (see it here http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Kinect-Demos-with-the-Channel-9-team. For those of you who don't know, Kinect is a USB device that enables the Xbox games platform (or, when the SDK ships, PCs) … Continue reading Interacting with the machine
Project achievements this week included: - completing all of my mandatory e-learning modules - meetings with further members of the immediate and extended team - sitting in my first "Rhythm of the Business" meeting (and understanding some of what was being talked about) And also: - up and running with a pool car... - ... … Continue reading Weeknote 46: beginning to understand things
A week and a half in, I thought it was about time that I explained what it is that I've joined Microsoft to do. I'm working in a group based in Microsoft UK's Reading HQ that is called Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE). The mission of the group is to spread the word about the … Continue reading My new role
I was in conversation at the end of last week with one of my team, and realised that he (being a bit younger than me) probably didn't know anyone who tinkered around with cars as a pastime. Well, not at least in the way in which my old chum Steve does - weekend after weekend … Continue reading Unpacking consumerisation
One of the responsibilities that my new team has is to extend the reach of information about the Microsoft developer tools and platforms through their blogging and other web activities. We've blogs sitting on the long-standing MSDN and TechNet services, and a site of our own at http://www.ubelly.com/. Conversations last week turned to the challenges … Continue reading Calculating readership
Project achievements this week included: - meeting with most of my team... - ...and scheduling time with the rest - discovering the location of the toilets, cafes, restaurants and carparks - managing a reasonable route to work - getting PC, phone and (Windows 7) Mobile set up And also: - well, it's mostly been a … Continue reading Weeknote 45 – Greetings
Yesterday on Twitter I witnessed the term "hybrid cloud" for the first time. My somewhat cynical response was that a hybrid cloud probably has batteries and the ability to sneak up on you in silence. I've become increasingly frustrated with the ongoing public/private/hybrid debate about what Cloud is, as it seems that both client and … Continue reading Nomenclature obsessions
Starting a new job and joining a new organisation at the same time is a double whammy of disorientation. Not only are you faced with not really knowing quite what it is that you should be doing yet, but also you have a sudden realization of quite how many people and things you knew in … Continue reading Day 2 as new boy
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