August 2006 - Posts

Introduction to writing Windows Sidebar Gadgets - my random notes
22 August 06 07:57 PM

It's week one for me getting back to dev-land and I have to admit that it's not been the easiest experience, but it is getting there now. I thought it would be worthwhile noting down my thoughts and pointers for people following the same path I am. This Read More...

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Imagine Cup India Photos posted
22 August 06 01:28 PM

as promised. What an experience! My set can be found here Other UK ICers photos are here and here Read More...

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Filed under: Teaching

Super-Intern Matt Duffin developing killer bots...
22 August 06 12:53 PM

..still only kidding about the killer bots, but he has written a great tutorial over on my old academic blog (Mint Source - the only sheep blogger i know of) on how to create a bot that remembers everything you want it to. Go check it out here (note to Read More...

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Back from the Imagine Cup in India
15 August 06 12:52 PM

After 8 days, 12000 miles of plane journeys, about 3 hours sleep a night and one of hell of a time I am back in the UK after attending and supporting all the teams at this year's Imagine Cup competition. My job for the event was to host Team 3Pair representing Read More...

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Filed under: Personal, Teaching

Super super super excited to see the back of super
02 August 06 09:40 AM

Things are a little hectic here as we get ready for the Imagine Cup finals in India on Saturday. The team were down on Monday for a trip to the British Broadcasting Corporation to do a radio interview with Gareth Mitchell from the Beeb's world service Read More...

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