Mega Student Sessions at TechDays

I like a big audience, but, blimey.

Did a couple of Student to Business sessions in TechDays today. Great fun. Above are the folks who turned up to the first one. Click to through to the larger Flickr image and try to find yourself on the picture (Note – only do this if you were actually at the session)

This is the slightly smaller audience at the second session. I think word must have got out by this point….

Tech Days is being held in a massive cinema complex near Brussels. They have some old projectors in the foyer, this is a close up of one of them.

Now on to the Netherlands and Geek Night.

Update on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 06:21PM by Rob

I promised I'd post the slides and demos here. I'll do this soon. If you are in a hurry the decks and demos were very similar to the ones I delivered yesterday.

Tech Days Belgium

Another country, another audience…

Today it was up bright and early to fly to the Netherlands and take a train to Belgium for my sessions at TechDays. I’m giving sessions on Windows Phone and Kinect. I always wonder just why I do this kind of thing, particularly when I’m sat on a train watching unfamiliar countryside whizz past in the rain. Then the session starts and I remember why. Great fun. Great audience and a good response from all. I promised I’d put the slides and content on the interwebs and so here it is. Remember, if you make a fortune from anything based on it I’m in for 10%. It’s only fair…

This was my setup for the talk.

The only snag was that when I got back to the hotel I found that they’d run out of numbers for access to the hotel WIFI. Apparently a new system is being installed tomorrow and at the moment they have no network access. So this post is being made from the future.

Nokia in Sunshine

I took this picture yesterday, when the sun was shining. Apparently the Lumia has some fancy polarisation magic that it does to make the screen visible in bright sunlight. Seems to work too.

Windows Phone Emulator Skin Switcher

If you are bored with the Windows Phone that you get with Visual Studio you can swap it for a much nicer looking device by downloading the Windows Phone 7 emulator Skin Switcher from here.

PlayStation Vita

Apparently it is called a PlayStation Vita because of the associations with speed and life. I must admit the name makes me thing of crisp-bread. And I wasn’t going to get one. Oh  no. With a phone and a Nintendo DS 3D I couldn’t see a reason to own the device. Until I saw it running.

The graphics are very impressive. Like very, very impressive. It really is a PS3 you can carry around with you. I had a go at Ridge Racer (I think I’ve bought that game more times that I’ve bought different copies of Star Wars) and the presentation and graphics were excellent. And I got a cool pair of (surprisingly good) blue headphones as well.

For casual games phones and iPads are great. For something a bit different and the 3D effect the Nintendo DS 3D has a lot to offer. But for hard core gamers I reckon the PS Vita has an awful lot going for it.