So Day 0 of Build. A day to settle in and relax and register for Build. Myself, my mother and sister found ourselves wandering through San Francisco. Found our way back to the Microsoft Store..... We then headed off to our first interview with Sam Guckenheimer. I'll writing a separate blogpost talking about how that …

Many would say starting a nearly 24 hour journey with a storm is far from ideal but I would say it added some mild fun to the whole affair. Sadly storms mean planes cannot take off which turned a one hour flight into a one hour forty wait and then an hour flight. Alas it meant plenty of time for snoozes. Unfortunately …

Today I started sending out emails inviting people to join in with Build Bites 2016. I'm hoping to make this year even bigger and better than last!!!

Last week I had the delight of helping present a really useful seminar at the University of Hull alongside Peter Roberts. Here is a similar blogpost he has written where he also walks through how you can use azure and a MySQL database to store high scores of a video game. Overall the presentation was a success with a …

Naomi kindly talked to me about getting more women into the area. She talks to me about how there are lots of areas that women can go into and to not limit yourself Naomi spoke to me about how actually started her career in astrophysics and from then on moved towards computers based on wanting to learn about how things …

Kati spoke to me about the fun things she sees at WPC particularly about how she enjoys seeing all the partners engaging throughout the conference Next Kati spoke to me about how she actually started out at a financial company and accidentally fell into the industry and has had fun ever since. …

Bryan spoke to me about how he thinks we can get more children into the industry with all the opportunities that are available for them. Bryan spoke to us about how he himself got into technology by actually starting as a pianist on cruise ships!! ![](/blogs/Calicowind/image.axd?picture=/2015/WPC Widgets …

Al spoke to me about getting children into programming. As a father of three himself he suggested getting children to get stuck in. It was interesting to hear it from his perspective. Al spoke to us about how he himself got into technology by actually starting with a business degree and continuing from there. …

Marc spoke to us about how he himself got into the industry and how though he doesn’t work necessarily in technology but manages the relationship between Microsoft and Godiva 

Shawn spoke to me about exciting things coming to Visual Studio. As part of his job is to promote visual studio to everyone it was really interesting to get his opinion! Shawn then spoke to me about how he got into the industry. He speaks about how he got into technology quite early and what else encouraged him. …