I’m at the Imagine Cup 2011 UK Final (@Microsoft)
After a very early start this morning, I am at the Microsoft UK HQ in Reading for the UK Final of the 2011 Imagine Cup. This post will be updated with images and videos throughout the day:
10:00 – Welcoming Presentation from Ben Nunney (@bennuk)…..usual interesting, funny and geek-ful slidedeck from Ben! He also showed a very entertaining (and tongue and cheek!) video of what Web Developers think of IE6:
11:41 – Goodie Bags! Microsoft LifeCam Show webcam and a UBelly T-Shirt. @BlakePender did an unboxing:
13:03 - LUNCH!
14:40 – While the teams are giving the presentations to the judges, we are just all hanging around playing on the Kinect, Surface and Portal 2 and tweeting the afternoon away….follow the #ukic11 hashtag to join in!
15:36 – ….and we’re still eating, tweeting and playing! Sessions start at 4pm….met lots of my future colleagues.
Live Tweets from talks and presentations:
- Incoming live-tweet on a MSFT talk #ukic11
- First up Chris Leydon (Embedded Development) #ukic11
- Wants us to be “kick-arse developers” #ukic11
- He developed TinyGrab.com #ukic11
- 3,000,000 screenshots in 2yrs #ukic11
- Get him on @leydon!
- TinyGrab team is all under 21! #ukic11
- @leydon just put the @google logo up and called Powerpoint crap in a Microsoft demo room…..brave #ukic11
- Reserve your username at Dabble.in (@wedabble) and help me get dabble.in/alex by signing up here – dabble.in/grsvl
- I am loving this talk from @leydon, some sound advice and he seems to think in the same way as me… #loveIt #ukic11
- “if you want to get rich, rob a bank; don’t get into software development” – @leydon
- “if you want to get rich, rob a bank; don’t get into software development” – @leydon #ukic11
- @leydon reminds me of a tech version Gareth Malone #ukic11
- Great presentation @leydon #ukic11
- Next up @androidrobb #ukic11
- @androidrobb ……let the tweeting begin #ukic11
- Just learnt that @leydon is a “socially acceptable” whore. xD#ukic11
- @androidrobb’s view of @Microsoft #ukic11
- UK students get the software DreamSpark.com for any ac.uk students MSDNAA.net from institutions to students #FREESOFTWARE #DREAMSPARK
- “Je ne suis pas un développeur” – @androidrobb #ukic11
- Thanks very much to everyone at #ukic11 a quiet but great audience. Next time make shorter notes.
- @androidrobb ‘s view of @Microsoft 2011 – 3 Screens Seamless Intergration #ukic11
- 68% of online activities – Find Something (@Bing), Find the World (@MSN) and My World (@WindowsLive) – @androidrobb #ukic11
- @leydon woot! Thanks
- And if you’re an iOS developer and fancy working on a cool startup in Brighton this summer, take a look at http://jobs.pitchie.com#ukic11
- @androidrobb – #HTML5 is going to be HUGE…@silverlight for media, streaming and games #ukic11
- Announcement of Imagine Cup UK winners about to begin #ukic11
- Standard pre-award waffle from @bennuk #ukic11
- Damo Walsh, JP Lacerda, Sam Van Leishout from the Uni of Manchester will be going to New York for the Imagine Cup World Wide Final! #UKIC11
- MSPs sit down for dinner and everyone gets their phones out #ukic11
- Incoming live-tweet on a MSFT talk #ukic11
- First up Chris Leydon (Embedded Development) #ukic11
- Wants us to be “kick-arse developers” #ukic11
- He developed TinyGrab.com #ukic11
- 3,000,000 screenshots in 2yrs #ukic11
- Get him on @leydon!
- TinyGrab team is all under 21! #ukic11
- @leydon just put the @google logo up and called Powerpoint crap in a Microsoft demo room…..brave #ukic11
- Reserve your username at Dabble.in (@wedabble) and help me get dabble.in/alex by signing up here – dabble.in/grsvl
- I am loving this talk from @leydon, some sound advice and he seems to think in the same way as me… #loveIt #ukic11
- “if you want to get rich, rob a bank; don’t get into software development” – @leydon
- “if you want to get rich, rob a bank; don’t get into software development” – @leydon #ukic11
- @leydon reminds me of a tech version Gareth Malone #ukic11
- Great presentation @leydon #ukic11
- Next up @androidrobb #ukic11
- @androidrobb ……let the tweeting begin #ukic11
- Just learnt that @leydon is a “socially acceptable” whore. xD#ukic11
- @androidrobb’s view of @Microsoft #ukic11
- UK students get the software DreamSpark.com for any ac.uk students MSDNAA.net from institutions to students #FREESOFTWARE #DREAMSPARK
- “Je ne suis pas un développeur” – @androidrobb #ukic11
- Thanks very much to everyone at #ukic11 a quiet but great audience. Next time make shorter notes.
- @androidrobb ‘s view of @Microsoft 2011 – 3 Screens Seamless Intergration #ukic11
- 68% of online activities – Find Something (@Bing), Find the World (@MSN) and My World (@WindowsLive) – @androidrobb #ukic11
- @leydon woot! Thanks
- And if you’re an iOS developer and fancy working on a cool startup in Brighton this summer, take a look at http://jobs.pitchie.com#ukic11
- @androidrobb – #HTML5 is going to be HUGE…@silverlight for media, streaming and games #ukic11
- Announcement of Imagine Cup UK winners about to begin #ukic11
- Standard pre-award waffle from @bennuk #ukic11
- Damo Walsh, JP Lacerda, Sam Van Leishout from the Uni of Manchester will be going to New York for the Imagine Cup World Wide Final! #UKIC11
- MSPs sit down for dinner and everyone gets their phones out #ukic11
Christmas Joy!
I hope you all had a great Christmas, and that Santa was kind! I didn’t have a very techy Christmas this year, more of a practical one.
As I am starting my internship year next Summer, I got lots of Shirts, Ties, Cufflinks etc as well as a coat that I have had my eye on for a while.
I did get some tech. My old 8GB memory stick is on its last legs, so got a new 16GB Kingston one from my brother, and a set of in-ear headphone from my other brother, a marked improvement from my iPod ones!
I have been busy editing my videos from the #ukmspmeetup, and it will be online shortly. Also under Olivier:Digital, my webdesign business, I have just launched my latest job, 10SecondReviews.co.uk. This is a film reviews site for a guy I met that works for the BBC as a reporter and film reviewer. There is still work to be done on it, but I pushed it out with a few features still to come!
Hope you all have a great New Year!
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Engineer at Microsoft - Lover of technology, Harry Potter (TheRemembrall.org) and all other sorts of geekery!