About Me

I'm a developer/architect with over 10 years of experience in various technologies. I have developed for various mobile platforms and found Windows Phone to the easiest one of all. I love building applications for mobile platforms and find it gratifying when I see some person out in the world using one of my apps.

My profile on LinkedIn can be found here.

About Me

I'm a developer/architect with over 10 years of experience in various technologies. I have developed for various mobile platforms and found Windows Phone to the easiest one of all. I love building applications for mobile platforms and find it gratifying when I see some person out in the world using one of my apps.

My profile on LinkedIn can be found here.

We had a couple of requests for a feature in the dictionary to suggest that may have been misspelled and we've just deployed this feature to the sandbox.

Currently I've added a suggestion feature to the search API which will automatically suggest words if it can't find a match for the query string put in.

During the OverTheAir event we gave a prize to Alistair MacDonald, for his great API which makes it easy to get hold of your goelocation as a postcode.

It uses the browser built in support to find the browsers position and then calls a backend service to convert this into a postcode, simple yet effective and very useful.

Goto http://www.agm.me.uk/thispostcode/ then you can try the service yourself and let Alistair know what you think.

Andew Savory was at the OTA event last weekend and yesterday was reading blog about the event his hack to use the Pearson API for the Eyewitness Guide To London.

It's great to see that people are thinking of innovative uses for the dataset (in this case to provide landmarks to help find lost/stolen phones) as coming up with new ways to use the datasets was exactly why we released the APIs. I recommend you read the blog posting and see how OTA inspires devs to create.

Great write up from Luke about this years Over The Air event. He attended our session his comment is spot on:

What’s more interesting is that a relatively traditional organisation like Pearson is opening up their data at all. It shows that this is a trend that is happening across all industries, and hopefully we’ll soon get to a stage where developers can pull in data from just about anywhere, creating some truly exciting and innovative experiences.

 This years event was my first taste of Over The Air (OTA) and what a great introduction it was.

The talks
There were great speakers and a really friendly bunch of devs doing some very cool things. Amongst my favourite had to be be Mo McRobert's talk about the Open Data and APIs he's working on at the BBC.