Author Archives: Chris

Quality – its about thinking and process (not technology)

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Chris

With the rapid change of technology there is more and more pressure on developers to deliver quickly – before what they are implementing is perceived as out of date. This pressure ofter results in products coming to market before they are ready … Continue reading →

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Innovation is impossible – a lesson for innovation superheroes

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Chris

I have put a lot of energy into innovation initiatives in my career. Some have been successful and some have failed, but all have been difficult. What is more the larger the initiative the harder it is and the more likely … Continue reading →

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Using the GPU in Android to process live camera images

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Chris

Updated 18th May 2011 with a description of Android’s Renderscript feature. There has been a lot of research done in using GPUs (the Graphics Processing Units used for acceleration in video cards ) to build super computers. However there was an … Continue reading →

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Android – it all comes together in an open sandwich

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Chris

At Google’s developers conference Google IO 2011 they announced their roadmap for Android. Currently Google ships 2 versions of Android 2.3 Gingerbread an open source version suited to smartphones 3.0 Honeycomb suited to tablets and only available to OEMs They … Continue reading →

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