A New Challenge

Today was day number 1 at my new role working in the SCRUM team of developers with Fitness First at their head office in Poole. I'll be working on their .NET based membership management software and associated websites and tools.

A previously unknown fact to me, Fitness First are the UK's largest gym company with over 400 gyms across the world, with more than1.2 million members. Working in such a large scale environment will offer me the chance to really get stuck in with crucial issues of performance, response time and scalability.

It'll also be a chance to practice more of what I've previously enjoyed, working within a SCRUM team using agile practices to achieve our goals and delivering value to the business.

Here's to the challenge ahead, and hopefully, the end of my blogging hiatus!

Maldives - Dive Sites in Google Maps / Earth

I finally got round to creating a google map of the dive sites I went to during our Honeymoon 3 years ago in the amazing Maldives.

Check it out:


View Maldives Honeymoon - Dive Sites in a larger map

Pretty cool. If anyone wants any advice or info on diving in the Maldives, leave a comment :)

iPhone 4 Infinity FaceTime

My friend and colleague Dave Hope just had a FaceTime video chat with our new iPhone 4's, and during the call we did the geeky thing of pointing the camera of one iPhone at the screen of another, causing a cool infinity effect! See screenshot below:

Pointless? - Yes.
iPhone 4 FaceTime first? Possibly!

Cycling to and from Work - with my iPhone 4

I've been cycling to and from work 2 days a week for over 6 months now, and have really been enjoying it. Today I decided to introduce some tech to the experience, and downloaded the app iMapMyRide (Free edition). I started the route recording, and just left the phone in my shorts pocket safely buttoned up. I was pretty impressed with the results - I was seriously expecting it to not result in accurate tracking data at all, but pretty much it's spot on.

I don't profess to my cycling commute to be long or arduous, however it is pretty hilly (check the elevation graphs) but despite that, it's awesome fun.

See below for the route summaries.

To Work:



From Work: