Category: 2005

Conferences and events attended in 2005.

It’s The Perfect Time To Resign

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Interesting day (Tuesday) today at the PalmSource DevCon. My main ‘goal’ of the event is to speak to as many people as possible, find out about them, and let them find out about All About Palm. So a lunchtime meeting with Patrick Hurley from AirSet (a mixing of web based group calendaring with a mobile client for Palm and – soon – other platforms) got the ball rolling. A short break to pop along to the “Palm OS Programming for Dummies” session before getting registered, picking up the new PalmSource backpack, and a quick kilt change before attending the Palm

Visitng Mike, Ellie and Russ

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Had a chance to catch up with people I know in the San Jose / Bay area yesterday, namely Mike Rowehl (Feedster and Mobile Mondays), Elle Kruszewski and Russ Beattie. Mike and Elle is clearly a house that has a lot of geeks passing through it – why else would a whiteboard in the kitchen be covered in java classes and php notes? Probably the most useful thing was that the house had Wi-Fi (unlike my Travelodge) so it was a chance to get online, grab the 300 odd emails waiting for me (of which about 15 were real…), post

If You’re Trying To Call Me…

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For some unknown reason (the closest I can come up with being “US GSM networks are frakked”) I can’t receive any incoming calls on my mobile. Argh! SMS seems to be working, so if you need me in regards to PalmSource DevCon, or you want to sort out a time to meet up for drinks or a breakfast while I’m on the West Coast of the USA, please SMS me on +44 7966 152772. Thanks

Oh Bloody Hell, Dougal, Now What’s Wrong?

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After a surprisingly good train trip to Cannes from Waterloo, Rafe and l arrived at the hotel to find ‘no room at the Inn’ and no record of our booking. Luckily they had a room for Sunday night, but the rest of 3GSM they were fully Booked. In the best Heinlein tradition, we’ll worry about this Monday. There’s enough industry people who want us to write nice stories about them that crash space on a floor shouldn’t be a problem. And thees probably a bundle of cancelled rooms around. The Media centre staff should be able to help find us

Lots of Travelling

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It’s been a strange week. I feel most of it has been spent on a National Express bus. Monday was an overnight Edinburgh to London trip to attend some pre 3GSM press conferences from one or two American companies on the Tuesday. After that it was an overnight bus home. And now I’m writing this on yet another London bound bus. The train to 3GSM is Sunday lunchtime. So another cheap hotel in England’s capital city and a chance to catch up with a few friends and preview my first podcast. It sould be up by Monday. Yes It’s time

My OPL Programming Book to Be Previewed at 3GSM

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It’s finished. For some time now, I’ve been working on the book you see on the left. There’s a huge impressive title, but I prefer my title… “The OPL Book.” It’s published by Symbian Press and Wiley, who are the same people that do the massivly complicated C++ and Java books. OPL isn’t like that. It’s written to be an introduction to programming, from scratch. Existing programmers can start at chapter three and should devour everything in a day or two. Non programmers should be able to get through it in two weeks (it start off assuming you have absolutley