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A little late in coming I know…but on 26th December Brisbane was host to the first DDD Brisbane! We’d sold out quite a lot before the event and had 40+ people on the waitlist so it can only be a good sign that people are keen for these types of events. We were there early to setup to hand out lanyards (which was the secret password for free coffee) and the all important swag.



Damian gave the keynote and all important logistical...

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After being fortunate enough to be a Software Design Finalist Judge for Image Cup for the last 2 years, I’ve been invited to be part of the keynote and give a breakout session at the QUT Image Cup Smackdown Event 23rd November. If you aren’t aware this years worldwide finals are going to be held in Australia! If you can’t make the event and want to more about the competition itself, check out the main website http://www.imaginecup.com/.

Imagine Cup is the premier student technology competition in the world challenging students to create solutions for the worlds toughest problems.

Imagine Cup Smackdown brings students a prime opportunity to learn about Imagine Cup and learn from experts on what will assist you with solving those tough problems using technology!

Taking on the concept from the highly successful Smackdown 2010 event held at QUT last year, Imagine Cup Smackdown will showcase some of the latest technology and amazing demo's which will blow attendees away.

Imagine Cup Smackdown will not only hold a keynote event but will provide attendees the opportunity to deep dive into tracks including Software & Technology, Business and Design & UI.

See below for the confirmed awesome speakers of Imagine Cup Smackdown!

Lawrence Crumpton - Microsoft Bronwen Zande - Soul Solutions...

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The folks over at YOW! 2011 are putting up a couple of free tickets to the Brisbane conference and offering a discount to the Girl Geek Dinner ladies to attend.  For those that aren’t familiar, YOW! is part of the GOTO global conferences which includes QCON.  If you have never been to a YOW! event be ready for some great talks and training. 

YOW! is known for breadth and depth. Checkout these links for your interest:

Agile JavaScript and Web Devs Ruby, JavaScript and Web Java and JVM Cloud Computing, NoSQL and BigData Microsoft Brisbane Free Ticket 1 – Anyone attending...

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While we were sleeping on the weekend the latest version of the Kinect SDK for Windows was released – Beta 2. It also mean a new web address for everything KinectSDK here: http://kinectforwindows.org/.

There’s been a bunch of changes to the install aswell as the actual SDK. Here’s a few things I found when I upgraded to the newest version.

Installation

If you already have a previous version of the SDK installed you must uninstall it first. If you try to install Beta 2 over the top of a previous version you will receive the following error:



Install location - If you’re having trouble finding the dll locations the samples and documentation now have a new home under C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Kinect\v1.0 Beta2 – so you’ll have to update all the references in your existing projects to point to the correct directory in here.

RunTime...

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