Working in Hursley’s Emerging Technology Services (ETS) group means I get involved in all kinds of different projects. Some last a couple of days, some can last years. One of the most common things I have to do is build proof of concept systems (POCs). This is where we go to a [...]

Rich Client is a term thats been hanging around for a while now, it describes a group of applications that provide more client end functionality than traditional websites would.

See a member of the team, attempt a rocket launch

Darren has already posted this week on how he and his department spent an afternoon launching rockets together.
Today, my team and I enjoyed similar team-building fun by going go-karting. I’m slightly bruised this evening (no accidents, but some of those corners were sharp), and we all had a lot of fun.

- Roo Reynolds (Pervasive [...]

Neuro Linguistic Programming, how ro read and adjust to what people are saying is something I have an interest in. Hursley is having a talk on it next week from an IBMer who works in a customer relations role. Is it good, bad, clever or cool?

I’m trying to get things done

IBM, and in particular IBM Hursley provides an unsual combination of people and skills. Life has certainly changed since I got here though.

We don’t spend all our time sat behind computers coding away, we do that a lot, but we also take time out to have some fun. The Emerging Technology Services group in Hursley is full of budding rocket scientists, so when it came time to do a team building event, rocketeering seemed a good [...]

Darren’s lovely photo of Hursley House shows where we work. The view from the lawn really is impressive. Can’t see anyone playing frisbee in this shot, but I guess it was a bit late in the day for that.
I’ve never actually worked in the House itself; there are several more modern buildings behind it, [...]

OK, so I’m part of a group of techie/creative people who work at IBM’s Hursley Park Lab in the UK. We have regular technical community meetings, well more like a cup of tea and a chat really, about all kinds of cool stuff. One of the things we talked about recently is that [...]