Hull, Great Britain
Windows Phone expert, trainer, author
Areas of Expertise:
- C#
- Visual Studio
- .NET Micro Framework
- Windows Phone
- speaking
- training
- writing
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Rob blogs at:
http://www.robmiles.com/
Phones 4 U Do Customer Service
May 15 2012
I rang my dad last night. Mentioned my new phone, as you do. “I can’t understand you.” he said. “It’s simple”, I explained, before going into great detail about the complex financing infrastructure that I had carefully put in place so that he would appreciate that I was… read moreMay 14 2012
This came up on the car this morning. I had to stop and take a picture, as I’d come over all “IBM PC”. read moreMay 14 2012
The guy serving me in the chip shop on Friday caught a glimpse of my Lumia 800. “Good phone that.” he observed. “A mate’s got one. My iPhone is up for renewal soon and so I thought I’d get one as well”. Smooth move. I really like my Lumia… read moreMay 13 2012
I don’t usually regard The Apprentice as a ready source of business acumen. Still less The Apprentice You’re Fired. But a couple of weeks ago they had a chap on, forget his name – think he runs a chain of restaurants, who said something I thought was very sensible.… read moreMarks and Spencer and the Inverse of Service
May 12 2012
I’ve mentioned the book The Thank You Economy before. If you are in the business of providing things for other people you should read it. One of the central tenets of the text is that you should regard a failure on your part as a chance to show just… read moreMay 11 2012
On June the 6th we are having a Windows 8 Camp at Hull. The aim is to get students building Windows 8 applications and to help this along Microsoft are going to come up to see us and get things started. If anyone at Hull fancies getting involved then… read moreMay 10 2012
I blame Black Marble. A week or so ago Robert (Boss) Hogg and Steve Spencer from the company came over to see us and give a presentation on professional software development. Very good it was too. As we were chatting at the end of the session the conversation turned… read moreHull Programme and Module Catalogue
May 09 2012
Here’s a trick, if you want to take a look at what we teach at Hull and how our courses fit together you can take a look at the university module catalogue here. https://www.courses.hull.ac.uk/ You can search by course code or department and get the learning outcomes and assessment… read moreMay 08 2012
I’ve jut spent the day in the programming labs looking at first year work. When I go to bed I will not be counting sheep, but Sweepy Cleaner games and Bank applications. Some of the work was astonishingly good. One thing I did notice though was quite often the… read moreWeather Flow for Windows Phone
May 07 2012
There are loads of weather applications for Windows Phone. Today, on a whim, I bought one. Weather Flow looks lovely. It also has really nice Live Tiles. There are only two things I don’t like about it. It can be a tad slow to find the weather information (although… read moreMay 06 2012
I’ve just invented a new policy for all those important disks that you get with cameras and computers which become so important when you subsequently try to sell your old stuff on ebay. As soon as I get them I’m going to throw them in the bin. I’ve just… read moreMay 05 2012
Some time back I bought a couple of economically priced cheap SD cards. They were rated at category 10 (the fastest you can get) and were huge (32G). They were from a shop based in the Channel Islands who have sold me good stuff in the past. I can’t… read moreHow to put files in sensible places
May 04 2012
I’ve been in the lab marking student work all day. I’ve watched around 25 or so demonstrations of software. Great fun. You might find it surprising, but I actually like this part of the job. Very hard work, but worth it just to see what students have done with… read moreMay 03 2012
Hull Digital are another good reason why you should live in Hull. They’ve been going for a while now and I’ve gone along to a number of their Meetups. I always leave with plenty to think about, and tonight’s meeting was no exception to this. There were a couple… read moreMay 02 2012
Something that one of the speakers said at the “do” last night has stuck with me. He said that, with students paying more and more for their degrees there was a danger that they might be seen as consumers of education, where they were obtaining their qualification by paying… read moreMay 01 2012
A couple of weeks ago I got an email saying that I’d been shortlisted for an award. The Student Union at Hull has instituted a set of Teaching Awards and I’d been nominated in the “Inspiring Teaching” category, which was very nice. I was invited to an awards ceremony… read moreEvent Today: Real Life Software Engineering
April 30 2012
Anyone at Hull who fancies an hour’s break from coursework and revision today can pop along to a lunchtime event run by Robert Hogg and Steve Spencer of Black Marble. Rob and Steve are Microsoft MVPs (but none the worse for that) who have a lot (and I mean… read moreApril 29 2012
Apple make carefully designed and beautifully presented products that amaze and delight their owners. They also make iTunes. Which is amazing, but not in any good way. Yesterday number one dad got a new iPad. I heard the news with dread. Because it meant that I’d be the chap… read moreApril 28 2012
Digby and Wrex Simon Grey has been posting about his dogs. So I thought I’d post about my two. On the left we have Digby, who is sufficiently autonomous that he can fall downstairs unaided. On the right we have Wrex, who doesn’t do much by himself but has… read moreImagine Cup Captains Blog Post
April 27 2012
I did a post for the Imagine Cup Blogs this week. I thought I’d copy it here too. Hi. I’m Rob Miles, Competition Captain for Software Design. I teach Computer Science at The University of Hull and I’ve been involved in the Imagine Cup for all of the ten… read moreApril 26 2012
Lindsay West counts off the good stuff, while the panel prepare for the debate. Three good reasons to live in Hull. The University of Hull (of course) Chip spice. Platform Expos. The first two are pretty much self evident. (Although the second one only really makes sense once you’ve had some fast food… read moreApril 25 2012
If you have a nice new laptop with only an HDMI output, and a rather old monitor with only a VGA input, then I’ve got some good news. I’ve just discovered that you can now get an adapter (like the one above) which for a lot less than the… read moreApril 24 2012
What’s the most important component of your computer? The cpu? That expensive graphics card? The three monitors that you’ve plugged into it? Wrong. The most important component in your computer is the data that you put into it. If you lost any of the others it would be a… read moreApril 23 2012
I sent out a bunch of emails today with the details of the lab demonstrations for the First Year programming course. Last time I did this I managed to make the final part of the schedule repeat, so that I had some students down for multiple sessions. At the… read moreKinect Manager available for download
April 22 2012
You’d think I’d look more pleased that it is working….. Today I finished all the chapters for my upcoming book about the Kinect SDK. As part of the book I’ve made a wrapper class that makes it a little easier to use the classes in the Kinect for Windows… read moreApril 21 2012
I think I’ve bought Everybody’s Golf on pretty much every Sony game platform I’ve ever owned. I like golf games, but I don’t like to be too fanatical about them. The great thing about Everybody’s Golf is that underneath the cutesy graphics and wealth of options there is a… read moreSony PlayStation Suite Available
April 20 2012
Looks interesting, in spite of those scary heads. The Sony PlayStation Suite is now in “Open Beta”. This means that you can download the SDK and start writing games and applications which you might eventually sell via the PlayStation Store. The way I see it (although I’ve not tried… read moreApril 19 2012
It looks like a couple of my gadgets are going the way of all things. My Chumby, which I got for myself a couple of Christmases ago may shortly turn into a paperweight rather than the Flash Powered internet connected appliance that I’ve had on my desk at home… read moreApril 18 2012
If you want something to carry around your big laptop (or even your tiny Butterfly Touch) you could do a lot worse than the Undercover Laptop Sleeve. I got mine last year while I was in the ‘states, and I was quite surprised to find that they are actually… read moreApril 17 2012
A while back I got myself a Packard Bell Butterfly Touch laptop. It reminded me a bit of the Toshiba M200 I used to know and love, with a twisty screen that made it into a tablet or a notebook. I quite liked the machine and found it much… read moreApril 16 2012
Before I went to Singapore a few people said that I’d like it there. They were right. I’d go back tomorrow if I could. For a Brit it has a weird “Abroad without being abroad” kind of feel. The cars drive on proper side of the road. Lots of… read moreApril 15 2012
Bangkok airport, although it could really be any one of them. Of the last five days I’ve spent three of them travelling. Today it was time to go home, which meant another day or so sitting in a metal tube. Kudos to KLM for moving me to a seat… read moreApril 14 2012
These are the winners, congratulations to the four team members from NYP-School of IT who are about to get covered in celebration bunting… I was lucky enough to be invited to help judge the 2012 Singapore Imagine Cup Final presentations today. Yesterday a series of sessions had taken the… read moreApril 13 2012
A great audience to die in front of… Did my keynote session today at Campfire. It was great fun, once I’d got over my nerves and lack of sleep.Pretty much everything worked as it should, apart from my “bomb proof” Kinect driver wrappers blowing up. Oh well. I said… read moreAlso find Rob on:
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