My next steps – joining the Cloud Foundry team
I’m very excited to announce that, from April 10th, I will be joining the Developer Relations team for Cloud Foundry at VMware. This is a thrilling opportunity for me for a number of reasons. from a...
View ArticleLooking back, looking forward
As I close in on my first year anniversary joining the Cloud Foundry team, we’ve passed the New Year marker and some things are in the process of changing, so I thought it was high time for a blog post...
View ArticleDifferent Spokes
When Jeff Douglas from CloudSpokes contacted me last week to ask if I would be interested in being a guest on their Different Spokes show to talk about Cloud Foundry, help to review a book on node.js,...
View ArticleGetting inside Cloud Foundry for debug (and profit?)
I’ve recently started to play with some more of the internals of Cloud Foundry than I’ve been used to. This has been made much easier by the advent of bosh-lite, a system for deploying all of Cloud...
View ArticleSignals, messages, clouds… pigeons?
… AKA, how a flock of pigeons 🐦 is connecting my past, present and future technology interests. If I look back at the past 10 years or so of my career, I believe there’s a continuum of interest – from...
View ArticleWhat I’ve been doing in 2022 (so far)
Preamble: my content It has been a while since I’ve written a general “what I’m working on” post, so I’m fixing that now. It has been a busy year — I last published a newsletter in March 2021, and I...
View ArticleDogear Nation #71 – partially Pipr…
By the time you read this you should be able to get hold of Dogear Nation episode 71 (in theory… I won’t be online to check when this post appears on the blog). In case you are wondering what Dogear...
View ArticleBadged
Picked this pin badge up from the folks at Zemanta at a recent MOO drinks event in London. Photographed with my iPhone and edited with Photogene and Brushes
View ArticleSmart Planet
IBM’s Chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano, has been speaking to the Council of Foreign Relations in New York today. He’s been discussing how the planet is getting smarter: These collective realizations...
View ArticleClarifi case for iPhone 3G
Quick review of the Clarifi case… with a couple of photos on Flickr… you can get it on Amazon [viddler id=960a5323&w=437&h=370]
View ArticleHaptic fantastic
Yesterday I got the opportunity to play around with a haptic device, which basically provides a force feedback / touch user interface to various 3D technologies. These included navigating a virtual...
View ArticleIs Amazon neglecting the UK and Europe?
Just an idle thought. Consider: the delayed MP3 store launch in the UK the continued lack of an iPhone app for the Amazon store no Kindle launch outside of the US, and they’re on the second version...
View ArticleThe Matrix – ten years old?!
In the past couple of months, I’ve nearly abandoned my feedreader in favour of what I consider to be the “smart crowdsourced filtering” I’ve gained from the people I’m following on Twitter – I rarely...
View ArticleThings I like best in Snow Leopard
There are a heap of things I’m really liking about Snow Leopard so far… even though it turns out that my early 2007 MacBook Pro can’t take advantage of a lot of the under-the-covers enhancements The...
View ArticleMy next steps – joining the Cloud Foundry team
I’m very excited to announce that, from April 10th, I will be joining the Developer Relations team for Cloud Foundry at VMware. This is a thrilling opportunity for me for a number of reasons. from a...
View ArticleWhat I’ve been doing in 2022 (so far)
Preamble: my content It has been a while since I’ve written a general “what I’m working on” post, so I’m fixing that now. It has been a busy year — I last published a newsletter in March 2021, and I...
View ArticleRunning a 3D print catalogue with VanDAM
There’s only one way out of my ongoing writer’s / blogger’s block, and that’s to post stuff. Even if it is all out of sequence. Thus, a post about stuff (3D printing) I haven’t yet written other...
View ArticleLiverpool Makefest 2023
Last weekend, we visited Liverpool for a few days. I had an ulterior motive for the trip – my friend Caroline Keep and team were running the Makefest at the Central Library. [aside: does anyone know...
View ArticleA 3D print, 8 years in the making
Back in July 2015, I was in Portland, Oregon, for the O’Reilly Open Source conference, otherwise known as OSCON. It was my third or fourth OSCON, and sadly it turned out to be my last one (and the...
View ArticleGoodbye to my life on Twitter, 2007-2023
In November last year, I abandoned my Twitter account – I set it to private, did not visit, did not interact, ignored any direct messages, etc. It was simply too painful to watch friends and coworkers...
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