Neil Roodyn: English born, Dr. Neil travels the world working with software companies. He loves Australia, where he spends the summer enjoying the Sydney lifestyle and helping software development teams get more productive. Dr. Neil spends his other summer each year flying between northern Europe and the USA working with software teams and writing about his experiences.
Over the last couple of decades Neil has worked with a variety of companies including Synon, ComputaCenter, SLK, EDI, Citect, Microsoft and Rogue Wave. Neil has also been involved in the formation of several software start-ups. Neil brings his business and technical skills to the companies he works with to ensure he has happy customers.
Dr. Neil has been closely associated with leading edge technologies for the last ten years. This started with adopting, using and then teaching C++ in the early 1990’s. Then in 1995 getting to grips with the details of COM and travelling around Europe teaching and mentoring development teams. Since 1999 Neil has been involved with the agile development movement, especially eXtreme Programming, which he has been using to help teams get more out of their development lifecycle. In the last 3 years Neil has been leading the push to .NET, by running several .NET projects and teaching .NET courses. Dr. Neil’s mobile lifestyle has lead him into the realm of mobile platforms and in the last couple of years Neil has been helping developers with mobile related development, including the Tablet PC, Pocket PC and Smartphone. Neil studied Software Architectures for Real Time Systems at University College London, for which he received a PhD.
Editors Picks
14 Dec 2009
Time is Running Out to Upgrade Bing Maps Silverlight Control
Neil Roodyn writes
"...The upgrade from the CTP took under an hour. There are some minor naming differences, for example the VirtualEarth namespace has been replaced by with a Maps namespace...I believe you only have a few more days to perform the upgrade, and then...You can get your key by creating an account on..."
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Microsoft Windows Client
02 Dec 2009
Installing Windows 7 on IMac with Bootcamp
Neil Roodyn writes
"...A recent acquisition the new 27" iMac presented me with a brief challenge when I went to install Windows 7 with Bootcamp; after the first stage of the install the screen remains blank...a very concise solution..."
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TechTalk
21 Oct 2009
The Team That is Rocking the World of Computer Design
Neil Roodyn writes
"...check out the hardware specs, the screen sizes and resolutions. Then turn your focus to the attention to details, the new Apple mouse, the way the screen is made to go right to the very edge of the box, the slight taper in the stand so it appears..."
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