Nick Knowles

I'm CTO of Kizoom (http://www.kizoom.com) a newish London based company trying to build novel applications to deliver information about public transport in the UK. The theory is that we combine journey planning, real-time running, disruption and personalisation information into easy to use services and deliver them to lots of lost, late people over WAP, SMS and wireless PDA. The practice entails making a slow picaresque voyage of shocking discovery round the cracked rails of the oldest mass transit systems in the world -- while riding in the flaky, unfinished waggons of the new mobile data industries' half-built technology. To try and cope with the mess, we have used XP since we started Kizoom in 2000, along with Java, Junit and VA/Eclipse. My workmates at Kizoom include MikeStorey & TomWhite.

Most of my professional life however, I've worked in the more beautiful world of software tools.

Past instantiations have included being founder and CTO of a software tools company, Synon, which did some interesting new things with model drive design and object based program generation in the 80's, and running a London Lab for ObjectTechnologyInternational, working on modelling tools in Smalltalk and Java, during which I had the pleasure of working and skiing variously with DaveThomas, ErichGamma, TimMackinnon, and other great Objectfolk at OTI, as well as lots more others outside of it.

And I'm a pukka Wiki AlHaj, having made a pilgrimage to Portland Oregon to just to pair with the great WardCunningham, thereby claiming a WardNumber of one.

mailto:nick_knowles@kizoom.com

snail:27-29 Cursitor Street, LondonTown EC4A, 1LT

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