Hull, England
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/
June 17 2013
The room just before we started. Today we had a bunch of folks from a local school come and see us and play with our Raspberry Pi systems. To say we had loads of fun would be a bit of an understatement. Great stuff. With kids like these I… read moreSimple Calendar for Windows Phone
June 16 2013
The Windows Phone calendar tile is nice enough. But it could be better. It could be like the one from Simple Calendar. This gives you the date and day in a nice, funky, format, along with details of your next two appointments. I really like it. When you run… read moreFacebook Picture Fun and Games
June 15 2013
While I was away last week I was stupid enough to try and log in to Facebook from my phone to respond to a message. Facebook saw that I had left Hull for a little while and went into a high security mode, locking my account. Thanks for that.… read moreWindows Phone Picture Workflow
June 14 2013
Not too shabby for a phone camera, eh? My plan was to spend today writing content for a Raspberry Pi course that we are doing next week. The idea of my session is that we connect a Raspberry Pi to a bunch of LEDs and switches and then have… read moreJune 13 2013
I’m finding that most of my music listening now starts with my phone. I’ve signed up for the “all you can eat” Xbox Music service and so when new albums come out I can just download them to the phone and listen to them. Very nice. Of course, I… read moreJune 12 2013
Every now and then someone emails me and asks if it OK to translate my C# Yellow Book into their native language. Of course it is. I’ve added some notes about translation to the home page for my programming resources. Essentially you can translate into any language you like… read moreJune 11 2013
There is nothing quite like being in an exam board with jet lag. Take it from me. read moreJune 10 2013
If you are looking for a really nice coffee table book (Hang on, Do people buy coffee table books any more? Do people have coffee tables?) Anyhoo. If you are looking for a great book to pass around at your next social gathering, or just own and look at… read moreJune 09 2013
Today we had to head home, which meant experiencing “The Miracle of Flight”. For me this means spending a few hours crammed behind a bloke who insisted on reclining his seat, even though I had mentioned to him hat my legs don’t have a joint in them that would… read moreJune 08 2013
I don’t know much about tomatoes. Mostly red, different sizes, used in bolognaise and on pizza, some discussion over whether or not they are a fruit. Oh, and in New Orleans they have a festival for them. It was a bit warm, but you could always cool down with… read moreJune 07 2013
If you are going to have a day off, I can recommend New Orleans as a great place to do it. First we went off to Audobon Zoo, which has to be one of the best zoos I’ve ever been to. We expected to spend a few hours there, but… read moreJune 06 2013
This is the Windows Phone part of the exhibition, where I’ve been spending a few hours each day. The conference ends today, I’ll miss the smell of brand new carpet. In the evening we went up to the Mercedes Benz Superdome for the TechEd 2013 attendee party. Lots of… read moreSpeechifying Applications at TechEd 2013
June 05 2013
Did my final session for TechEd US today. Great fun and a lovely audience. You can find the demonstrations for the session here. read moreWindows Phone Agents Secrets at TechEd 2013
June 04 2013
We started the day with a walk around the French Quarter, which was rather nice. Then it was time to head into TechEd and give my session on creating agents for Windows Phone. I was a bit worried, what with it being the last session on the day, but… read moreNavigationService.Navigate–Duh!
June 03 2013
Thanks to Ginny for the photograph. And for suggesting on Twitter that I might need some new jokes. As if. Anyhoo, this morning found me on the Windows Phone booth extoling the virtues of Windows Phone development. I told the happy tale of my PlayMusic application (22K downloads so… read moreJune 02 2013
This morning we caught the ferry to Algiers. Its just across the river and the journey takes fifteen minutes or so. The good news is that the ride is free, and Algiers is a great place to take a look at. Some of the land is still underwater. And… read moreJune 01 2013
I’ve never been to an oyster festival before. And I’ve never had oysters from the BBQ before. Both were great. read moreJune 01 2013
My cure for jetlag is to try and get eight hours sleep each night. Snag is, that we went to bed so early that we had completed our sleepings by four thirty in the morning today. Oh well. Best plan is to get outside into the sunlight and wait… read moreHeading for TechEd New Orleans
May 31 2013
Atlanta Airport has a nice ceiling. After the excitement of yesterday, today I had to get up bright and early, or at least early, and head off to Manchester Airport to fly to New Orleans. Such is life. The flights were smooth, everything worked and by the end of… read moreThree Thing Game and Summer Bash
May 30 2013
A whole bunch of teams with their things. We got our first ever “in week” Three Thing Game going today. We ended up with 18 teams, which was great, and included one from Boss Alien. I’m kind of in a hurry packing for my trip to New Orleans leaving tomorrow (Simon… read moreMay 29 2013
I was very excited to hear from Rasoul Mohammadi that he and his friends have been busy translating my C# Yellow Book into Persian. You can get an english copy from here: www.csharpcourse.com I’ll post a link to how to get the Persian version (poetry) when it becomes available. Great stuff. read moreMay 28 2013
I’ve finished my preparations for TechEd 2013. I’ve written the presentations, developed a bunch of new demos (including something that involve cheese and something that doesn’t) and also also created a custom Lumia 820 case using the Nokia design on Thingiverse. I’ve printed out a couple in white and… read moreMay 27 2013
Tokaido is a game where players seek rest and good experiences while travelling the “East Sea Road” in Japan. It is a nice twist on the board game format and has beautiful artwork on the cards and the board. I didn’t manage to win, but hey, it’s all about… read moreMay 26 2013
We had a sort of plan to go to the seaside today. Then we figured that lots of other folks would have that plan too. And so we went for a walk around the waterfont at Hull. We went past the deep and round the old town, had a… read moreMay 25 2013
Went to Leeds today and bought some trousers. And took this photo of one of the arcades. read moreMay 24 2013
I’ve spent a lot of the last few days sitting in on Seed exit interviews. These are actually great fun, although they are also very hard work. They are part of the assessment process for our MEng students. Essentially we get them to write a case for the marks that… read moreWindows Phone Isolated Storage
May 23 2013
I’ve made another tiny screencast. If you’ve ever wanted to find out how you can use the Windows Phone Isolated Storage to persist data in your Windows Phone applications you can go here. You can find the Blue Book that I use here. read moreMay 22 2013
Everyone should read this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/19/driverless-cars-pilotless-plane s-jobs-human The future that is described is quite believable and rather worrying. Particularly if you drive a lorry for a living. read moreThree Thing Game and Summer Bash
May 21 2013
We are trying something new this year. A Three Thing Game during the week and synchronised with the Summer Bash. Worst case we get the summer to recover. Best case it should be fun. All the action takes place over the 30th and 31st of May. We have a… read moreMay 20 2013
We had our Finalists BBQ today. This is pretty much the last free food that students get out of us (except perhaps for the sandwiches at the Degree Ceremony reception in July). Plenty of folks turned up to avail themselves of the various forms of cooked meat (which were… read moreMay 19 2013
We’ve been to Thwaite Gardens Open Day a few years in a row. We had the best weather a couple of years ago, last year was a bit iffy and we weren’t too hopeful about this year. But in the end it was nice and bright, and the sun… read moreMay 18 2013
Went to see "Star Trek into Darkness" today. It is truly splendid. Great story, great ending, nods to the original series and film. I'm looking forward to seeing it again, so that I can get more of the references. The only part of the film that didn't work for me was… read moreMay 18 2013
Went to see "Star Trek into Darkness" today. It is truly splendid. Great story, great ending, nods to the original series and film. I'm looking forward to seeing it again, so that I can get more of the references. The only part of the film that didn't work for me was… read moreHow to Fail your Assessed Course Work
May 17 2013
First a note. We don’t have many people that actually do fail their coursework (although, years ago I did manage it by using a variant of this technique involving punched cards). But over the years I’ve seen enough of these to be able to produce a comprehensive guide. This… read moreMay 16 2013
I found out last week that I've been appointed as a Nokia Developer Champion. I'm not sure if it is for those WAP pages I used to write for my Nokia 7110 (I actually had a script that would read my email and convert it into WAP so that I could read… read moreAlso find Rob on:
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