Rob has been with Web Applications since 2003 making him the longest serving member of staff. Not only that - Rob, Lee and Gordon go back, way back. Rob’s known Lee since he was 18, and Gordon since he was 20. There is no need to bandy about guessing ages, suffice to say that it’s in the realm of a 20 year acquaintance; give or take a decade.

After years of hard work and social exclusion, the services team manages to get a reward, a pet.

This week’s profile is John P. I promised not to add any embarrassing links in this profile to his various websites (myspace, ball of dirt) but I will say that he is highly searchable if you can spell his last name.  That said, let’s begin.

Ahh, so Genius Day has come and gone; the presentations were Monday morning where everyone showed off their great ideas. I’m going to do a quick run-down of everyone’s project as succinctly and accurately as I can, some of them were quite technical and went completely over my head, so I’ll do my best. Everyone had to present for at least 2 minutes but no more than 5 minutes, which was followed by a Q&A session. Now, if you concentrate you can hear it, it’s Oprah saying “Geeeeeeeeeeniusssssss”… and so we begin.

Let’s get everything out in the open. Kerry is a lawyer.  Yeah, yeah, she’s a Project Manager now, but I personally believe once a lawyer always a lawyer.  You will have to excuse the occasional lawyer joke in this post that might not have anything to do with the topic.

Well, as I’m sure anyone who is reading this is going to be aware, we like to do things differently at Web Applications UK. This Friday is our Genius Day. What is Genius Day? Wouldn’t you like to know…actually I’d like to know too.

A number of weeks ago now Web Applications UK had some very special visitors. We try to tell everyone we’re a pretty cool place, as a tech company the odds of that are sadly stacked against us, but we really are down with the kids, honest! To prove our nascent hipness we’ve decided to let you in on a little secret. We’re so awesome übercool bands film their music videos in our office. Okay, it was just one, but still – pretty awesome. It’s okay to be jealous now.

I sat down today with Lauren and Dale, our resident Microsoft Apprentices. I had a pretty quick chat with them about what they’ve been up to since they started about two months ago and how they’re getting along.  The results are good.

22 Competitors. 4 Rounds. 1 Winner.

If you are sitting there thinking, hmm, I thought you were already a Small Business Specialist, well, you would be correct, but SURPRISE! We are now re-certified. The emotions you are looking for are relief and elation.