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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

 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