Posts Tagged ‘reading’
Microsoft Fun, Free Friday!
0530hrs and my alarm goes off with an unwelcome screech – it’s time to get up ready for Microsoft’s Fun, Free Friday event held on it’s campus at Thames Valley Park, Reading.
The event was designed to demonstrate some of the technologies Microsoft brings to the education sector including everything from Live@edu through to XNA [...]
Tags: education, Fun Free Friday, live@edu, microsoft, photo fuse, reading, Technology, windows live essentials
Tweetup Directory?
Since the first Reading Twestival earlier this year an ever-growing group of people in the Berkshire area have been meeting up every two weeks for drinks and a good chinwag. The ‘tweetup’ was started by a small group consisting of @dtsn, @nicktelford, @bennuk and @chris_alexander but has group considerably in size since. The event even [...]
Ideas & #rdgtweetup
This evening saw another, this time record-breaking, tweetup of Reading Twitter-ers at Pitcher & Piano in the town centre. I am told by @chris_alexander that it’s the largest amount of people that have yet turned up, so it proves that the concept is gaining popularity. Amongst things like meeting new people and putting faces to [...]
My little experiment
This morning saw the launch of the unofficial Reading Vue Twitter account. I came up with the idea of creating the account while brainstorming ideas to submit to the company ideas scheme. I figured that a lot of people use Twitter, and a lot of brands have successfully used Twitter to increase their audience so [...]
SE1SA5 – Programming Project Review
As part of my degree studies at the University of Reading I was required to design and implement a either a Chatbot, or code analysis program in C. I opted for the former project as I thought it would be a more interesting challenge.
The first considerations were: how do Chatbots work; how are they implemented; [...]













