Thanks to the great people in the Azure team, I was able to make use of the Dreamspark offer for students, and put the Calicowind website up in Azure! Why not check it out!

The other workshop I took part in at the Inspiring Students event yesterday was a Gadgeteer one with Paul Foster (Microsoft). We made a set of traffic lights using the kits. When it was red, it beeped when you pressed a button. There was a display with a Christmas tree on it! I really enjoyed it, I liked plugging …

In the Inspiring Students event I went to yesterday, I took part in a workshop with David Grey from the University of Hull. It was very interesting, and I loved the 3D printer. I was scanned using Kinect, and then printed like I was in carbonite! It was fun :)

oday I went along to an event run by a local software company, Black Marble, where they get professional speakers to speak to local A Level students, and try to get them to keep studying Computing. It was an early start, but it was worth it; a really fun and interesting day. First up was Robert Hogg, the MD of Black …

It's been a long but interesting week, and no let up on the last day! Had a great time in some great sessions. Went along to one about Kinect, and one on Windows for IoT devices. Everyone is talking about IoT, so it was good to hear more about it. Also went along to a session on Windows 8.1 programming with C# and Xaml …

Last night I attended my first Country Party at a conference, which was held on the beach! It was funny wearing a t-shirt, and hanging around on a beach during the evening in October! My sessions today covered a security talk for Windows 10, which is interesting. Security and dealing with Cyber Threats is important. …

After a tiring but interesting Day One, I was looking forward to Day Two. Attended a session that was an introduction into developing apps for the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. It was really interesting, but most of my efforts are still on Windows Programming. But I know I'm going to be doing some cloud based …

Today I arrived in Barcelona to attend TechEd Europe, thanks to the great people at Microsoft! Barcelona is a beautiful place, lots of sunshine. Had an interesting day of sessions and exploring the venue, and spent time doing labs on Power BI (BI means business intelligence, and allows people to generate interesting …