The Airsource team have just been out for their first team-building exercise. One of the benefits of running your own company is that you get to choose what the activities are – and since my sport is running, and Airsource is a four man company, I decided we’d do the Cambridge Fun Run – a four by 1.1 mile relay. I did check that everyone was up for a bit of running first though! We’ve just got back from the race – via the pub, so that’s an average of 7 minutes running each followed by an hour eating and drinking. Seems a good ratio. Not sure how we placed yet, but those who know me will know I’m not exactly uncompetitive, so I’ll be checking the results with interest!

Approaching recruitment for the first time is always a bit of a tricky one. You dread the thought of getting someone onboard only to throw them overboard again after a few weeks because you totally misjudged their capacity to work, think or be part of the team. You advertise your position and after a few weeks of interviews you start to wonder if you aren’t just doing it all wrong. It’s in these moments of sheer desperation that that the Recruitment Agency beckons. (more…)

Last Friday I had the opportunity to head down to London to see the Motorola MOTODEV Summit world tour come to town. MOTODEV is Motorola’s attempt to woo the developers of the world to their platforms and devices – attempt to capture some mind-share and give us some insight into what is around the corner for their technology. (more…)

It’s strange how many BREW specialists you can talk to who have never used ILogger. It’s not hard to see why, though: the API reference only sometimes tells you the details of how to use it, and while the ILogger overview notionally tells you what it does, you have to read it very carefully to figure out how to use it.

And when you find out what it does, it doesn’t seem like the most appropriate thing to use. (more…)