Keynote: Two roads diverged in the woods
summary
Career story lists concrete choices and outcomes: builds an in‑house Sky News weather system in Visual Basic 1.0 running on Windows 3.1; co‑founds a software arm, accepts a 50% pay cut, then joins a startup that lasts seven months and goes bust; later leads an MP3 download service ingesting Warner/EMI/Sony catalogs using PHP and Magento at scale; negotiates 10 days/yr for speaking and a fixed early‑Wednesday finish; finds an MSDN license via Microsoft partner points and turns user‑group talks into speaking and MVP opportunities.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 16:57The First in-House Weather System for Sky News
- 24:27London Net User Group
- 25:12Ian Cooper
- 30:23Free Msdn License
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