Tag: ota11

What did everyone else do at Over The Air?

After all, only three of us worked on Engima Kerplunk, what did everyone else get up to? I touched on some of them on the Forbes blog: If you’ve ever wondered where the ideas for applications and services on your mobile phone come from, then wonder no more, because OTA is the perfect example. During the first day, a series of talks and presentations are put on, detailing the latest ideas, principles and digital toys that companies are making available – this year saw  such delights as an introduction to BBC Digital’s Public Spaces project from Mo McRoberts; AR technology

Eurovision and Enigma Kerplunk at Over The Air 2011

An absolutely lovely weekend at Over the Air has just finished (with some nifty train timetable work, I was back home in Edinburgh before 1am), and as usual, I can’t wait until the next one, even though the wait makes them so special. The glorious weather meant that the grounds of Bletchly Park were overflowing with coders, on the grass, deadlines ahead, playing around and trying to see if they could get the latest API’s, ideas and dev tools to work. As David Vella pointedly asked on Twitter, “…when was the last time this many coders were working overnight in