First Year Fun and Games

What do you do when everything goes wrong, your slides crash and your remote control goes dicky? You carry on with the lecture, that’s what.

Helicopter

This is the one helicopter I’ve not broken yet. I daren’t fly it any more…

DDD in Manchester Finalised

This is not Manchester

The final schedule for the Developer, Developer, Developer event in Manchester next Thursday has now been set:

08:30 - 09:00 Registration, coffee
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome 
                              Andy Wigley, Andrej Radinger
09:10 - 09:30 Windows Phone 7: A new kind of phone
                              Andrej Radinger
09:30 - 10:30 Understanding the Windows Phone 7 Development Tools
                              Maarten Struys
10:30 - 11:15 Silverlight App Development on Windows Phone 7 
                              Andy Wigley
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:15 Integrating with the device capabilities
                              Andy Wigley
12:15 - 13:00 Raising the dead: Apps that survive Tombstoning
                              Andy Wigley
13:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Not provided)
13:30 - 14:30 Games Programming on Windows Phone 7
                              Rob Miles
14:30 - 15:15 How to sell Apps through Marketplace
                               Rob Miles
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee
15:30 - 15:50 Cutting-edge WP7 apps: Cortexica’s visual search API
                              Richard Bassett
15:50 - 16:35 Creating Silverlight Apps that work Offline
                              Andrej Radinger 
16:35 - 17:00 Wrap-up and the BIG PHONE GIVEAWAY

If you want to register, go here.

Working in the Lab

Spent most of today in the lab with the new first year students. Great bunch. In the very first lab session we bombard them with a maths diagnostic, a whole bunch of tasks, some questionnaires and last, but not least, they write and run a C# program. They took it all in good heart and it was great getting to know them. Lectures start on Monday. Looking forward to it.

Undergraduate Party

The panorama didn’t turn out too bad. Apologies if your face got mangled.

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Undergraduate Welcome Party today. Great fun. In spite of the quiz…. I’ll put some of the other pictures up on Flickr later. And we will sort out some Playstation Move sessions in the open area later in the semester.