Recently we had a great day demonstrating the great innovations we have made with HoloLens for the Police to a room full of jaded but ultimately enthusiastic, technology journalists. It was great to see their responses to the solutions we have put together, and heartening to read some of the things they had to say. …

I have been a bit quiet on the blogging front for a while as I have been deep in planning for community events and steeped in the joys of HoloLens. The results, two more DDD community events on the way (Reading and the North), and Black Marble has been made one of Microsoft’s HoloLens Agency Readiness Partners. So few …

One of the things I showed at NDC was a Raspberry Pi 2 with a FEZ Cream Hat (I know that sounds just so wrong, but that is its name). The FEZ Cream offers Gadgeteer ports out of the Pi, which is just awesome. What this means in reality is you get objects to program against not ports and lines which is mush easier; for …

The Intel Edison unit is great for building IOT, people have been asking where to get the bits and for more general information http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html I would suggest getting the Arduino kit to get started with. I enjoy the Xadow(below) much more but I struggled to get the …

I strongly recomend you watch a great security talk on IOT by Clemens Vasters and Dan Rosanova https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/2-625 NDC London 2016 Talks (Videos not up yet, will update as soon as they are ready) Barry Dorrans + Troy Hunt b.

This is the list of recomended books on IOT I shared in my session Enterprise IOT O'Reilly http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039433.do Abusing the Internet of Things O'Reilly http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033547.do I will update this as I find and approve of new books b.

I had a great time at NDC 2016. It was a very well organised event, everybody enjoyed the event, content and the food. Huge thanks to the great and efficient organisation by the NDC team. Also thanks to the great people with clearly great taste who attended my talk. I am separating the post into a few areas so I can …

I am delighted to announce that I am hosting the Azure patterns&practices team in a dedicated invite-only track on Day One of Future Decoded! I've been pushing to bring the patterns&practices team to the UK for a few years now, and it's excellent that it's finally happening at the Premier UK Microsoft event …

Key Summary I have split the key Summary into Essential the essential keys are key combinations you NEED to know and Nice to know. I have left the Win+arrows in the Windows 8 section, while the Windows 10 version is vastly better with snapping, essentially the functionality is the same. I will be posting later on …

After many months travelling and spending a lot of time planning, I have now got many posts backed up to send, I am currently touching up and posting my back log. so expect to see a flurry of posts over the next week or so b.