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I am happy to be part of the organizing committee for the Agile Tour in Hong Kong on December 1st. I also convinced Telerik to send me 30kg of Tee-shirts for attendees of the event. Details are below, register today, space is limited (only about 30 seats left)! EventBrite Link to register: http://agiletour2012hongkong.eventbrite.com AGILE TOUR 2012 COMING TO HONG KONG DECEMBER 1, 2012 Welcome all, Agile Tour is finally coming to Hong Kong! We organize a full day with international and local expert speakers on a variety of Agile topics: Title : How to suck less with distributed teams Speaker : Emerson Mills Abstract: We all know that distributed teams suck. (...

Thanks again to everyone that joined the live Kendo UI keynote yesterday! More than 1,200 people showed-up to help clog the interwebs and learn about what's new in Kendo UI's latest Winter Release. We had a great time showing-off what we've been hard at work building...

This past weekend was the 3rd Startup Weekend in Hong Kong and I was lucky enough to return again as a judge. This year it was huge with 14 teams competing!   As usual, I was very impressed by the ideas, hard work, and execution. They stared on Friday night with lots of pitches and team formation. The group worked all day Saturday and Sunday at the CoCoon co-working space in Hong Kong (the same co-work space AcceleratorHK is using). A few AcceleratorHK cohort members as well as program director Paul Orlando were helping out as mentors. On Sunday night we all gathered to a different venue where we heard all of...

There is nothing we like more than writing code...but when we're not writing code we love getting out on the town to meet all of you that are using Icenium. Over the past couple of weeks we've had a ton of fun doing just that. We visited Las Vegas and San Francisco for the HTML5 Connections conference and QCon respectively and had a chance to show of Icenium and answer lots of questions. It was a blast, and we'll be doing a lot more of it.

Last week was the first week of the AcceleratorHK program. We have six teams that make up this cohort coming from: Hong Kong, Silicon Valley, Mexico, and Malaysia. The teams are just starting out but are in the following domains: social, location based, and community. We started out with an introduction to Customer Development by program director Paul Orlando and then broke up the teams and gave them a Startup Weekend style assignment : go out and work on project for 48 hours with new teammates with a focus on Customer Development. The results were…interesting. We had two mentors come in and work with the teams. John Bristowe came in from Australia and...