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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

 Just had confirmation one of my submissions for Tech Ed Australia has been approved so I’m quite excited as I’ll be doing a session on the Microsoft Kinect SDK Beta. We’ll be giving the session while we’re in New York … Continued

Over the weekend I reached my 1 year anniversary of having my 6 KWh solar system installed at home so I thought it’d be nice to work out how much we’ve saved. In 12 months we generated 9044 KWh which … Continued

I’ve been using the Microsoft Research SDK for Kinect for a little over a week in my spare hours, it is tonnes of fun and so much more stable then the previous frameworks I had been using. One thing that … Continued

A month or so ago John entered a massive deep zoom mosaic – Mosaic of Queensland – into the Library Hack 2011 competition. He was invited to exhibit the entry at the announcement party on Friday held at The Edge. … Continued

I wanted to put together a simple Windows Phone 7 application that I could put through the marketplace just so I can go through the process of getting an application submitted, approved and up on the marketplace. I decided to … Continued

I was playing with my first NuGet package install today as I tried out Jake’s Windows Phone MVC framework and hit my first error: Unable to find assembly references that are compatible with the target framework ‘Silverlight,Version=v4.0,Profile=WindowsPhone’. Turns out the package … Continued

I’ll be in New York in July for the Imagine Cup 2011 Software Design finals and while we’re there we are fortunate to be able to present at some local user groups. We’ll be presenting on the newly released Microsoft … Continued

    I have been very fortunate again this year to be to be involved with Imagine Cup as one of many round judges for Game Design and have been selected as one of the finalist judges for Software Design.  I … Continued

I was excited to see the official Microsoft Kinect SDK released today! If you haven’t checked it out yet I recommend heading to the official site and giving it a go. After I downloaded all the bits and did all … Continued

I’ve submitted our second entry to this year’s LibraryHack competition – a PivotViewer collection of historical Queensland Estate maps. The application can be viewed here: http://rem.soulsolutions.com.au/. If you like our entry you can tweet and Facebook like it here: http://libraryhack.org/2011/05/22/historical-real-estate-maps-pivot/ … Continued

I’ve just submitted my entry for this year’s LibraryHack competition, a 10 Gigapixel Mosaic of Queensland made from 52,102 images from the State Library of Queensland. View the full resolution version here. Currently the full resolution version is only 50% … Continued

I was scratching my head a bit last night when I needed to debug some JavaScript in my project. I’d one all the things I thought I needed to do: Turn on ASP.Net debugging In the Debugging Session turn on … Continued

I present to you our 1000 photos from Antelope Park in the form of a photo mosaic. This was made using the latest pro  version of andreamosaic, an awesome tool and highly recommended, with the DeepZoom option enabled and presented … Continued

Had a nice last day at Chimfunshi today. Went out to Enclosure 1 and 2 for the morning and visited the compound and said hello to the kids. I love their car made out of fence parts. The chimps must … Continued

Last night Stephan took us to a drive to the house that’s being built and it really has a nice view over the river. Was good to get out for a little bit after a short day at the enclosures. … Continued

Sandra and I were at 3 and 4 today. There were lots of visitors around today with the Easter weekend. They all waited up top for the chimps to be release while Tom went inside with Berta still running lose … Continued

Decided to hang around camp today as still not feeling great and really not hungry. Got online and chatted to John a bit after he got home from work and polished off The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo. Now I … Continued

Not feeling well again. I suspect it must be the food. If it was the water i’d be sick every day. So didn’t do much at the enclosures today other then find as comfortable spot to lie down as possible. … Continued