Category: Conferences

ETech 2005 – Snap Summary

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And it’s all over for another year. Emerging Technology is a strange type of conference. I’ve found it more tiring than the Symbian Expo’s and 3GSM’s of this world, even though they’ve all involved a fair amount of walking around the floor, or travelling time. I think it’s the sheer amount of information that needs to be absorbed in the 3 days of seminars that run almost wall to wall that’s just causing my brain to say ‘enough – let’s put some Proclaimers on the MiniDisc to give me something to numb the synapses. It’s also a strange conference because

Off We Go, Into The Wild Blue Yonder

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Here we go, off to O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology again. Slightly different mindset this time as (a) I’m not speaking this time and (b) the OPL Book’s print run means I can’t sneak a few Wiley books into an O’Reilly event. Shame really. But the value of the people I can meet, be around and talk to is worth the ten days away from Vikki, Mairi and Eilidh. That’s going to be hard. Last year Vikki was pregnant with Mairi, but in London. This time around, she’s got family around her now we’re back living in Edinburgh, but another daughter to

Oh Bloody Hell, Dougal, Now What’s Wrong?

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After a surprisingly good train trip to Cannes from Waterloo, Rafe and l arrived at the hotel to find ‘no room at the Inn’ and no record of our booking. Luckily they had a room for Sunday night, but the rest of 3GSM they were fully Booked. In the best Heinlein tradition, we’ll worry about this Monday. There’s enough industry people who want us to write nice stories about them that crash space on a floor shouldn’t be a problem. And thees probably a bundle of cancelled rooms around. The Media centre staff should be able to help find us

Lots of Travelling

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It’s been a strange week. I feel most of it has been spent on a National Express bus. Monday was an overnight Edinburgh to London trip to attend some pre 3GSM press conferences from one or two American companies on the Tuesday. After that it was an overnight bus home. And now I’m writing this on yet another London bound bus. The train to 3GSM is Sunday lunchtime. So another cheap hotel in England’s capital city and a chance to catch up with a few friends and preview my first podcast. It sould be up by Monday. Yes It’s time

My OPL Programming Book to Be Previewed at 3GSM

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It’s finished. For some time now, I’ve been working on the book you see on the left. There’s a huge impressive title, but I prefer my title… “The OPL Book.” It’s published by Symbian Press and Wiley, who are the same people that do the massivly complicated C++ and Java books. OPL isn’t like that. It’s written to be an introduction to programming, from scratch. Existing programmers can start at chapter three and should devour everything in a day or two. Non programmers should be able to get through it in two weeks (it start off assuming you have absolutley