Day 2–Sunday To Easter Island
This morning we were up early to catch our flight to Easter Island. I was a bit worried whether the taxi the hotel had called for us would arrive or it would be lost in translation of my extremely poor … Continued
This morning we were up early to catch our flight to Easter Island. I was a bit worried whether the taxi the hotel had called for us would arrive or it would be lost in translation of my extremely poor … Continued
Today we are officially on holidays. After booking this trip over 14 months in advance it has been a slow countdown. It’s been a long first day getting up at 5am to get to the airport in Brisbane, to catch … Continued
For those running a Mac or a pc running something other the Windows 8 or 8.1 you can still develop with Kinect v2 SDK. The Kinect Team have put together a great post on a few alternatives here. My favorite … Continued
The public preview for the Kinect V2 SDK came out recently and I get a few questions on where to start. Here’s my top resources to help you out. Since the alpha device the hub and powersupply has reduced in … Continued
We’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front for awhile. There’s a few reasons : we’re busy, we’ve been procrastinating but also we thought this would be much easier…. Our site was a Dot Net Nuke instance from a … Continued
For reasons that are a whole other story I never leant to ride a bicycle as a child. It never really bothered me back then, and as a young adult didn’t worry me much either. I had my car license … Continued
Tonight we kicked off the install fest for Rails Girls Brisbane #3 . It was great to see lots of ladies attending and to see a large number of mentors to help out. After much installing we got everyone together … Continued
Today was Young ICT Explorers judging for QLD. This is my 3rd year as a judge. It’s great to see so many young people getting excited with technology and building cool stuff. It’s also great to recognise a bunch of … Continued
Today we headed into QUT to show off the Kinect v2 Alpha device to the Brisbane Game Technology Meetup Group. It was great to show off the new device and compare to some of the features of the original Kinect. … Continued
Today is International Women’s Day and also the launch of the Tech Girls are Superheroes book featuring yours truly as Aion. Jenine launched the Tech Girls Movement to promote positive role models to encourage and raise awareness of information technology … Continued
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