On ageing, and a wake-up call
Oldness Yesterday, I turned 37. I’m often mistaken as being younger than I am. At first that was funny, then it became annoying (mostly when every bar in the US demanded ID), and then it became...
View ArticleBook Signing 2.0?
Last night I attended a unique event – what we think is the first ever “virtual book signing”! Well, you’ve just published a book… it’s all about working digitally and online “in the cloud”… and you...
View ArticleFree Spring Schwag? Well, why not!
One of the aspects of my work on Cloud Foundry at VMware / the Pivotal Initiative is, of course, the superb support for the Spring Framework offered on the platform. If you, too, “speak Spring” like my...
View ArticleM2M, IoT and MQTT at EclipseCon 2013
EclipseCon 2013 is here, and I’m in Boston with the great folks from around the community this week. There’s a LOT of content around the machine-to-machine space this year, and growing interest in how...
View ArticleM2M Community at EclipseCon
Day 2 of EclipseCon 2013 and we’ve already been seeing some strong interest in the M2M community and the kinds of projects we have been working on! The story so far There were two M2M events on day...
View ArticleGo Pivotal!
I’m in San Francisco today for the launch of a new company – Pivotal. Pivotal is bringing together a number of key technology assets – our Open Source cloud platform (Cloud Foundry), agile development...
View ArticleTwo weeks with a Nokia Lumia 920
Just in time for Nokia to announce the Lumia 925 (and 928), I’m belatedly posting my review of a Lumia 920 (d’oh!). As a techie and long-time disparager of Microsoft technology, the Xbox 360 was the MS...
View ArticleCloud Foundry has gone Pivotal – so what’s new?
A few weeks ago I was privileged to be at the launch of Pivotal – a new organisation formed by VMware, EMC, and with investment from GE. You can read all about our new company at GoPivotal.com. What...
View ArticleBusy times, but let’s talk Cloud Foundry!
Users of the existing beta Cloud Foundry hosted service cloudfoundry.com were sent emails this week explaining that we are almost ready to launch version 2 of the service. If you’re a current user, or...
View ArticleRunning tinytinyRSS on Cloud Foundry
Google Reader is going away in a week or so, and my friends have been asking me where I’m migrating all of my feed reading activities to. The answer for me is a combination of Flipboard and Feedly...
View ArticleKeeping the faith in Shoreditch Village Hall!
Last month, my friends at Shoreditch Works (a pair of amazing co-working spaces in the Silicon Roundabout area) ran a Kickstarter campaign to support their goal of repurposing an empty warehouse...
View ArticleEmbracing my inner geek and fandom: Nine Worlds
In February, I backed a Kickstarter campaign for a new conference event called Nine Worlds Geekfest – an event which promised to be a first-of-its-kind mixed genre gathering of geeks, sci-fi fans,...
View ArticleUpcoming speaking gigs
Fresh from a quick presentation and supporting Hackference this past weekend (more on that soon), I’ve turned my attention to the next couple of months of travel and events. There’s a lot of stuff...
View ArticlePivotal CF – the enterprise platform for software development
My boss and mentor, James Watters, just blogged about the launch of what we’ve been working on since before Pivotal was formed earlier this year – Pivotal One, powered by Pivotal CF (based on Cloud...
View ArticleA little bit of Spring and MQTT
I’ve been involved with Spring (the Java framework, not the season…) for a couple of years now – since I joined VMware in 2012 through the former SpringSource organisation in the UK – and I’ve remained...
View ArticleGetting inside Cloud Foundry for debug (and profit?)
I’ve recently started to play with some more of the internals of Cloud Foundry than I’ve been used to. This has been made much easier by the advent of bosh-lite, a system for deploying all of Cloud...
View Article#newjob
In late 2011, I was contacted by a very charming, smart and persuasive French gentleman who spoke of clouds, platform-as-a-service, and polyglot programming. It took him and his team a couple of months...
View ArticleLatest interviews, and upcoming speaking schedule
Just a quick note to comment that I’ve added links to two recent interviews on the media section of my Speaking and Media page: The Cloudcast #133 – The Cloud Foundry Foundation, Cloudcast podcast,...
View ArticleOn joining Twitter
I’ve been settling into my new role at Twitter over the past few months. I’m a Developer Advocate on the Developer and Platform Relations team, based out of a beautiful new London office we opened a...
View ArticleSome random reflections on 2014
2014, looking back... a little bit of a year in review. What I've been up to at Twitter, in Open Source, and in life. Continue reading →
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