We're thinking of holding a Windows Phone 7 developer event in the Edinburgh office. Something like an introductory tutorial on developing apps for Windows Phone 7. At the moment we're trying to estimate the level of interest. Let me know if you would...

Nobody complains about how measuring cups work. But the OXO measuring cup was designed after careful observation had identified a problem that nobody had really ever noticed before. It's well worth watching this video for more details about the product...

I've created and worked with a number of different personas during my time in the Visual Studio User Experience team at Microsoft. I've learned a lot about how to use them effectively, and, contrary to what others have recently written about the use of...

Parallel programming is difficult. No surprises there really. I came across a great slide deck discussing some of the issues in detail. A portion of the deck does a great job of using the Cognitive Dimensions framework to analyse various language constructs...

Came across an interesting paper today: http://www.chrisluce.com/doc/icsm2009.pdf It describes a study in which 10 developers were asked to fix two bugs in a software system they had no experience with. The system consisted of 70 thousand lines of...