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John and I were invited to help out with the HCI Summer School at ANU to get the students started with the KinectSDK for Windows. In the morning Henry Gardner opened the Summer School quickly followed by a look at … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

I’m a big fan of SCRUM / AGILE / insert other name that helps me actually get on doing my job and be able to get it done more efficiently without being tied up in titles, roles and rank. I’ve … Continued

This week we were able to expand TransHub to 7 cities – now including Canberra. We were able to do this because the dataset for Canberra became available on data.gov.au. Just over 5 years ago we saw the first campains … Continued

After our initial launch of TransHub Sydney just over a month ago, our biggest feature request is to have a version for other cities. We’re pleased to announce that as of yesterday we now have 6 cities – 5 in … Continued

  Since we announced TransHub Sydney there’s been a few articles popping up around the place. Thought it’d be a good time to put the ones we know about in one place. TechAU interviewed John at Teched Australia about TransHub … Continued

It’s been a few weeks since Teched, but it also feels just like yesterday. We’ve been busy with TransHub and Build and Tuesday we even did a last minute Qld MSDN User Group presentation on the Kinect SDK. For anyone … Continued

Day 1 of Build is over! Today Microsoft shared with the world their brave new Operating System, Windows 8. Honestly we weren’t expecting much more than a new touch shell on Windows 7. We were wrong. A whole new API, … Continued

Today we headed off to LAX via Sydney for Build. Had my first flight on an A380 today as we rarely fly through Sydney. The entertainment system and the noise level are definite improvements over the 747. Even though there’s … Continued

Last Wednesday, after months of really hard work, we presented our Spotlight competition entry to an audience of over 100 people including Microsoft staff, Government officials and of course Teched Australia attendees. We were up against some great competition with … Continued

We spent last week down on the Gold Coast for Teched Austalia. It was a MASSIVE week for us. While we were there we did a talk on the Kinect SDK, did our presentation for the Spotlight Showdown, and won … Continued

We’re pleased to announce that TransHub Sydney is now LIVE for download and purchase on the marketplace. You can get it at http://syd.transhub.com. If you want to test it out before you buy it from the marketplace, it comes with … Continued

We’re down in Sydney on Monday the 5th September and we’re heading over to Mobile Monday Sydney to give a short presentation about TransHub. We’ll get the opportunity to personally road test the application when we come down. We’ve got … Continued

We spent last week in Auckland for Teched NewZealand. While we were there we did 2 talks on the Kinect SDK and went and talked to a bank about how they could use the Kinect and SDK in their business. … Continued

We released a sneak peak on our upcoming Windows Phone 7 application TransHub to facebook earlier in the week and were overwhelmed with a few common questions we thought would be best answered here so everyone can benefit. It’s been … Continued

I was doing some testing for our upcoming mobile application detecting whether the user had an internet connection and handling it nicely. After doing a bunch of testing on the emulator I deployed to my device, turned on flight mode … Continued

This time last year I posted about the dramatic change in Road style for Bing Maps. Well the team didn’t stop improving, they took on feedback and  made changes. Improving the water colour, adding the highway markers and making the … Continued

In addition to our session at Tech Ed Australia, we’re heading over to New Zealand the week before and giving not 1 but 2 presentations on Kinect SDK at Teched New Zealand. We’re pretty excited that this year New Zealand … Continued

We’re proud to announce that TransHub has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Spotlight program from Microsoft Australia. The Spotlight for Windows Phone gives Transhub the opportunity to present at Australia’s TechEd conference on the Gold Coast, allowing … Continued

Last year Catherine organised a great lunch and award for contributors to Womine In IT and it’s back again this year.  So it’s time to nominate yourself or someone you know for the Annual Women in IT Community Contributor of … Continued

We had lots of fun showing off the Kinect SDK in New York over the last few weeks and seeing what the Imagine Cup students were able to do with the Kinect in their solutions. It’s great to see so … Continued

While Bronwen is busy judging the students at the Microsoft Imagine Cup I’ve been out and about New York taking some photos.  The Rockefeller centre is my new favourite view over Manhattan and Central Park, with little to no queue … Continued

Woke up early this morning and we wandered about looking for things to nearby. Headed into M&M World which was disappointing..was expecting to find some cool stuff there. We did spot the green M&M lady liberty though. We wandered about … Continued

We got up fairly early this morning to head to the airport as we couldn’t online check-in for our New York flight. The plane was packed not a single seat spare. We managed to get a seat together but were … Continued

What do you get when you combine the Kinect SDK with the Mercury Particle Engine? Awesome fun ! Check out a small video: I’m off to New York this week so rather then just tempt you with a video, how … Continued

Yesterday I headed down to Sydney to be a mentor/trainer for the Developer Developer Developer Kinect SDK Funday in Sydney. Lewis had organised a bunch of Kinects and some a cool prize for the winning application. A bunch of people … Continued

I’ve been playing with the DatePicker and TimePicker controls in the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit and was thinking I was crazy for awhile as my application bar icons were not quite right as you can see in the red … Continued