I’m a co-organizer of the London Windows 8 User Group and am an active member of the Windows Phone User Group.
Recent talks
I often speak at local events. Recently I’ve talked at the following occasions:
- 2017
- Rolling out your new backend system at scale – Amsterdam, June 2017 at Uber Engineering Amsterdam Meetup
- Scaling native mobile development at Uber from one to hundreds of engieers – Budapest, April 2017 at Startup Safary Budapest
- This is how we rewrote our payments system processing $20B / year in volume at Uber (Hungarian) – Budapest, March 2017 at HWSW Meetup
- 2012
- Migrating Windows Phone apps to Windows 8 – London, December, 2012 at Windows Phone User Group
- Building Highly Successful Windows Phone Apps: a Recipe for Repeated Success – Malmö, Sweden in November, 2012 at OreDev
- Success on the App Marketplace. – Vilnius, Lithuania in November, 2012 at AppCamp
- AdRotator on Windows Phone and Windows 8 at AppBizDev Podcast
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast episode #60, March, 2012 – talking about Windows Phone application development.
- Introducing WeatherFlow – London, March, 2012 at Windows Phone User Group. A video has been recorded of this talk.
- 2011
- Windows Phone Marketplace Numbers and AppFlow Stats - London, December 2011 at Windows Phone User Group. A video has been recorded of this talk.
- AppFlow Sneak Peak – London, August 2011 at Windows Phone User Group. A video has been recorded of this talk.
- Creating a Beautiful Windows Phone 7 application – London, May 2011 at Microsoft Tech.Days 2011. A video has been recorded of this talk.
- Performance challenges faced in real-world WP7 applications – London, March 2011 at Windows Phone User Group. Slides of the talk available: view slides.
- 2010
- Developing for Windows Phone 7 – Edinburgh, September 2010 at Scot Alt.Net.
- Windows Phone 7 – An Opportunity For Developers – Edinburgh, September 2010 at TechMeetup. A video of this talk has been recorded.
- Silverlight and Flash are evil – Edinburgh, June 2010 at Scot Alt.Net. An interesting discussion about web standards, and how Flash and Silverlight fit into that.
- An Introduction to Silverlight – Edinburgh, March 2010 at Scot Alt.Net. A 90 minute hands on overview of Silverlight, focusing on the new concepts .Net developers need to understand to succeed with it. Slides and code for the presentation.
