White.Steve.Blog : General

Sparkle Hayter and the Sparkle Fan

stevewhitepsfd — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:26:00 GMT

I’ve been a member of the Microsoft UK PSfD team for three and a half years now but, beginning on Monday, I’m moving to a new role in Redmond. Being an ADC has definitely been the best job experience I’ve had to date: the application development consultancy work with customers is challenging and rewarding in equal measure and my team-mates have been an inspiration and a great bunch of friends.

Our managers encourage our development in every way even if that means eventually losing us from the team. I’m excited to be moving to the corporate campus in Redmond to join the Expression Interactive Designer team as a technical writer. That means I’ll be producing conceptual writing, tutorials and sample applications. Needless to say, I'll be blogging a lot about what I get up to.

EID's codename is Sparkle and today my colleagues bought me a book by a writer called Sparkle Hayter. They think that kind of thing is funny! ;-)

I, however, am a great fan of Sparkle and I'm sure you will be too.

Computing Real-Time Holographic Video Content With Off-The-Shelf PC Hardware

stevewhitepsfd — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:52:00 GMT

If, like me, you've been awaiting an update on Mark Lucente's research, you'll find this paper by Tyeler Quentmeyer et al fascinating: http://web.media.mit.edu/~vmb/papers/quentmeyerms.pdf

Apparently (http://www.media.mit.edu/spi/) the Spatial Imaging Group at MIT disbanded about the time this paper was published (almost a year ago). I hope this important research is continuing somewhere and is getting enough funding.

My team is hiring in the UK!

stevewhitepsfd — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 03:28:00 GMT

Follow this link and under Development you’ll see the job title Developer Consultant PSfD.

Tell them Steve sent you. :-)

Welcome

stevewhitepsfd — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:48:00 GMT

Welcome to my web log! I've been putting this off because I wasn't sure I’d have much content. But, on reflection, my job and Voices (my personal software project) will probably give me enough to talk about. I’ll introduce Voices in the next post.

So who am I and what do I do? Well, I’m Steve White - a computer nerd from Yorkshire (in the UK). I went to live in London after graduating until two and a half years ago when I moved here to Reading. I work for Microsoft UK as a developer consultant. That means I get to help customers use our developer tools, particularly Visual Studio and the .NET Framework.

Like I'm sure most of you do, I feel fortunate that my job involves work that I actually want to do. So, in some sense, it’s as much play as it is work. The team I'm part of is called Premier Support for Developers, and my team-mates and I are Application Development Consultants. You’ll certainly hear me abbreviate those names to PSfD and ADC in these posts.

What I’ll publish in this log is a number of things. I want to document my progress with my software project and I’ll explain designs and techniques I’ve used and often illustrate ideas with code snippets. I’ll talk about music theory, because that’s what my project is about. I’ll also discuss technical points that have arisen in the course of my daily work. And finally I’ll probably also talk about fairly arbitrary and miscellaneous stuff that occurs to me. If that sounds appealing then grab my RSS feed!