Today I was lucky enough to present one of Rob Miles legendary “Rather Useful Seminars” For my talk on “Being Disruptive for Fun and Profit” I was awarded an award, hand carved by Rob from a much bigger award. Rob assures me there is no other one in the world apart from the second one he gave me. Thank you to everybody …

The Windows 10 update has just been made available, Make sure you have all updates before Installing. The Windows team have especially highlighted KB302380 https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3025380 as a patch to have installed before you update, i.e. if you don't the install will not work as expected. if you want the …

I have been running Windows 10 on my pro 3 since the preview was first available. Truth being told there have been at least two occasions where taking it off seemed to be the best option but in both cases updates fixed the problem. Being a developer I don’t always think before upgrading to new technology but in general …

Several times over the last few months I have encountered people who have misquoted/used Moore's law to justify a solution for a problem they are avoiding or more often are failing to comprehend to any real level. At a base level it is used as a reason not to do anything at worst used to justify the reasons not change …

Years ago I had the privilege of doing some SDR’s with the team developing a toolset code name “Oslo” using a new language named ‘M’. The concept was to bring modelling of data and visualisation of data to all. Sadly the retirement of Oslo the day before a presentation I was to give was a sad day and the passing of the …

The first firmware update is out for Microsoft Band. To get the update you will need to update your Microsoft Health app. In the UK this means the set region to US, go to the store, check for update. Run the Health app and it should offer a firmware update to the Band. The update is done over Bluetooth and so I made …

The lovely people in the IT Pro team have announced their IT Pro Honours list and I am privileged to be on it. http://blogs.technet.com/b/uktechnet/archive/2015/01/05/new-year-s-honours-list-2015.aspx A great set of professionals and Me and Rik. Me an IT Pro who would have thought. I suddenly feel the urge to help Rik …

I have been very fortunate to get hold of a Microsoft Band. Bands are currently in short supply, but thanks to an Angel in Minnesota I have one. Currently there is no expected release date for the UK, but a quick look at EBay will turn up enough units to buy, remember the retail price is $199. CAUTION – Check The Band …

Don’t worry, Nokia are not planning to revive 70s nostalgia aftershave, Denim is the new update for Lumia's providing better low level support of the hardware. Denim offers several key updates Camera – for the 830/930/1520 updates specifically for HDR, Dynamic flash and 4k video and speed fixes for the 1520. as a user …

This week is Computer Science Education week (CSEW) and I am really exited that Computer Science is being seen for what it is, A gateway to an amazing future. The Hour of Code is upon us and urge everybody to look at helping children and adults do their first hour. Microsoft have been promoting the Hour of Code and the …