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Got up reasonably early to head out on our countryside bicycle ride. When I signed up for this ride I couldn’t actually ride a bike so I’ve spent most weekends since Christmas on a fast learning track. I did come … Continued

Today was our main temple day. We got up at 4:30am to get ready for the onslaught which is Angkor Wat sunrise. At 5 we set off to test my patience with people for the day. We arrived in the … Continued

Today we set off from KL to Siem Reap. We managed to flag down a cab driver fairly easily and made it to the airport without any major dramas. By the time we found something to eat and were herded … Continued

Today is our last full day in KL. We were lined up to do some more presentations which got cancelled so we had the whole day to fill in. I’d spotted the 30th anniversary Transformers Expo so off we went … Continued

Our room has no windows so there’s no real indication of weather or time outside. It also appears that our phones aren’t synching their time properly. So we woke up this morning and thought it was 7 when in fact … Continued

First trip to Kuala Lumpur for us this week. Our trip was to begin with an 11:20pm flight out of Brisbane. After running out of time to do things at home we quickly looked up the coffee club at the … Continued

Popped into Infrastructure Saturday Brisbane on the 7th December to show off the Kinect v2 Alpha kit. As we were back to back with other speakers had to setup in the room and gave people a chance to see what … Continued

We held our 3rd DDD Brisbane on 7th December. This year we were 50% bigger at 180 attendees + speakers , helpers etc. We arrived bright and early at 7am to unload cars full of bags, swag, drinks, lanyards etc. … Continued

I loaded up an existing project the other day and running on IIS 8. I was getting some weird Internal Server Error for mime types – mp4 etc., so I checked all the usual things – that I’d installed all … Continued

I’ve spent the better part of the last 3 years working from home, before that, John did a lot of work from home and I’d done a few stints here and there. I’ve gone onto client site every now and … Continued

I was invited back to be a judge at this years’ Young ICT Explorers QLD competition for the Grade 6-7 category. Students from all around the state (and even some from over the border) came to UQ to present their … Continued

We’ve seen some exciting announcements around the Kinect for Windows SDK recently – with a new generation sensor coming next year and a new version of the SDK just released in March. In that March release, was a bunch of … Continued

I’d seen posts about Rails Girls events in other countries and cities and I was excited to see that they were going to hold one here, in Brisbane. When Katie Miller (@codemiller) posted on our Girl Geek Dinners wall about … Continued

Now that we’ve outgrown all the controls in the Interaction Gallery and we’ve exhausted all the ways we can use KinectRegion to make our own controls we get into the thick of it and look at the InteractionStream itself. The … Continued

Now that we’ve looked at the existing controls in the Interaction Gallery. What happens now we want some other control “Kinectified”. Generally speaking I think you can get most of what you want without going direct to the interaction stream … Continued

The next control I want to touch on in the Interactions Gallery is the KinectScrollViewer. Now that we’ve learnt about the Regions, and button controls it’s time to see how we handle putting a lot of them on the page.  … Continued

The next controls I want to touch on in the Interactions Gallery are the KinectTileButton and KinectCircleButton. Now we have our KinectRegion and can see what we’re doing with the UserView control, we can start interacting. In its simplest form, … Continued

The next control I want to touch on in the Interactions Gallery is the KinectUserView. Now that we know that our Kinect is plugged in and working, most of us want to give the user some indication of where they … Continued

The next control I want to touch on in the Interactions Gallery is the KinectRegion Control. It’s a canvas for the other Kinect controls and is associated with a particular sensor. To add it: XAML <k:KinectRegion Name="KinectRegion"></k:KinectRegion> Code behind: 1. … Continued

When we look at the range of controls in the Interactions Gallery , the first one I wanted to highlight that you’ll see in the Interactions Gallery is the KinectSensorUI. It’s a nice little control that shows you the status … Continued

As the Kinect For Windows SDK has started to evolve, the team has been adding some nice little controls which are quite useful and also controls everyone was writing in one way or another to solve the same issues. I … Continued

I’ve been hanging out until the 1.7 release of the Kinect SDK to show off a bunch of the improvements and features in the Kinect SDK. This month we’re presenting at the Brisbane .Net User Group. Planning on taking you … Continued

 Awhile ago we started building an Bing Maps app for a client using Phone Gap and initially targeting iPhone. Now that we’re happy with the functionality we’re looking at the Android version. Today I was trying to get to step … Continued

This morning started very similar to yesterday. The place was surrounded in mist, this time though everything was already wet from yesterday/last night’s rain. No real point hiking today so a little sleep in was in order. Once we got … Continued

We woke to mountains of mist. Looking out our window this morning you’d never know we’re surrounded by beautiful mountains. It’s a bit cold and bleak this morning but we’re essentially sitting in some clouds. I want to do the … Continued

F First morning we’ve had since we started our holidays we don’t have to actually be anywhere at a certain time today. The view out of our bedroom window of the mountains in the morning is pretty cool. We look … Continued

We got up at 3 am this morning to catch our flight back to South Africa. We arrived at the airport just as they were opening the doors. The lady and her daughter in front of us hadn’t brought their … Continued

We were woken with a start to a MASSIVE BANG and a flash of light. We both sat up straight in bed – it’s 3:30 am in Rwanda and all i can hear is boiling water bubbling bubbling and water … Continued

Woke up many times through the night in anticipation of this morning. Ever since I first saw these guys on TV I’ve wanted to go see them in the wild. The scrooge in me has put it off for years … Continued