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There are two jaguars here at Boskoppie – Jaggy and Boyfriend. They are quite a lot bigger than I expected ie. big cat sizing largest to smallest – Lions, Tiger, Jaguar, Leopard etc. These 2 have very different colouring and … Continued

Busy tourist day today. As it’s the weekend a lot of tourists come through for tours. So there were heaps of people, kids and strollers around the place. We were on ABC’s today and they had some minor flooding with … Continued

Today we were on dogs, ducks and rex again so was a quiet day. I did a bit of nursery baby sitting, we watched them dart a tiger to get some warts cut out and played with the cubs. We … Continued

Today was pretty quiet. I was looking after Rex the caracal (which involves cleaning his water in the morning and giving him a chicken at night) and John was on Dogs and Ducks – also pretty easy – give them … Continued

Today the park owner, Peter, had to dart one of the large male lions in order to transport him. Peter darted the lion by himself so as to keep the lion calm but we headed down straight afterwards to assist … Continued

Some people swim with the dolphins, others with the sharks but how many of us get to swim with tigers? After getting up early and sorting out the Tigers today, we were all rewarded at lunchtime with a tiger swim, … Continued

Today we decided to try out the Go Pro on the dolly with a few of the smaller cubs and then the Go Pro on the hat with the Tigers. At first both groups of cubs were a bit cautious … Continued

Wow…..today was epic! We awoke at 4am to the roar of lions…what a sound! We weren’t assigned to any duties today but we helped out with most of them and am now very tired! We started out cleaning out Rex … Continued

This morning we woke up early wanting to head to Monte Casino Bird Park and take a few close-up pics of their awesome birds that we had so much fun with last time in South Africa. Unfortunately the weather had … Continued

Today we delivered our Windows 8 Kicksart 1/2 day workshop to about 45 locals. It’s actually quite a large group to give a workshop to so we completely re-arranged the room to force everyone into groups so they can collaborate … Continued

The morning started very early with a 3:15 am ride to the airport to check in for our flight to Sydney. Before we even checked in the flight was delayed 30 mins (coming in from Dallas Fort Worth). We weren’t … Continued

We’re taking a little time off and heading over to Africa for a few weeks. While we’re there we’re doing a few presentations in Johannesburg. If you’re nearby, come say hello – details are here. So apologies in advance for … Continued

Last week we built a battery pack for our Kinect For Windows. This weekend we wanted to make the battery pack and the kinect more portable, and do some testing on the batteries to see how long they last. Firstly … Continued

In a couple of weeks we’re heading over to Africa for a well-deserved break. While we’re there, we’ve lined up a couple of presentations on our favourite topics: Windows 8 and Kinect For Windows. It’s been 2 years since we … Continued

As you know, we love our Kinect device, but one of the big problems when you want to play with it is that it’s a powered device which means you need to be close to power, or have a really … Continued

Hit an interesting snag when using Windows Azure Websites recently. We had a solution using MVC4, a bunch of worker roles and did a bit of sql spatial to do intersects, create bouding boxes etc. Deployed to azure and once … Continued

Over the Xmas break I decided it was time to try moving to a standing desk. Working from home I quite often spend over 12hrs straight sitting at my desk and it can’t be good for me. So off to … Continued

I’d started out uploading files into Windows Azure Blog storage with the old sdk based on a few examples I’d seen. After I had it working I refactored, and upgraded my references to use the latest 2.0 Azure Storage 2.0. … Continued

I woke up this morning to find I’ve been renewed as a MVP for the 6th year. This year I move over to being a Kinect for Windows MVP which is quite exciting! I’ve changed names a few times in … Continued

Combining Knockout with Bing Maps Ajax control will give you bindable properties similar to what you may have experienced with the Bing Maps Silverlight control. Further it has a great way to communicate with your JOSN web services. I’ve put … Continued

I’ve been playing with some MVC4, Knockout JS and some unobtrusive validation, specifically I was trying to replicate the Grid Editor Example.   I had a problem with the example when I had: $("form").validate({ submitHandler: function () {     viewModel.save(); … Continued

Yesterday over 100 of Brisbane’s keenest developers descended upon QUT for the 2012 DDD Brisbane. The doors opened at QUT at 7:45 and we had a bunch of people keen to get inside and out of what was a very … Continued

My little application was put on hold for awhile for testing, feedback etc. and in that time PhoneGap released a bunch of new versions. So today I updated to version 2.2.0. It was quite different to 1.9 that I had … Continued

After a sell-out conference last year, DDD Brisbane is back! This year we’ve got more space and more swag and of course more content for DDD Brisbane 2012. We’ve got a great agenda this year with special guess speakers borrowed … Continued

On the 14th November we held our Windows 8 Kickstart Workshop at the Edge. I’d been to the edge on a few other occasions but have never been into this particular lab before.  It was a great room that meant … Continued

We’ve been invited to run a free full day Windows 8 App workshop at The Edge as part of the National Telework Week celebrations. Abstract In this workshop Bronwen will introduce you to the world of Windows 8 RT apps. … Continued

This was me this morning…pulling my hair out, trying to work out why I was getting the following error: "Element not found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8002802B (TYPE_E_ELEMENTNOTFOUND))" when I called await BackgroundExecutionManager.RequestAccessAsync(). I still don’t know exactly WHY it happens … Continued

On Saturday 13 October, we popped along to the Jumpstarters Codefest 2012 event which is a weekend-long festival of innovation. Teams of between 2 to 6 individuals competed to demonstrate a new product or service for the judging panel, with … Continued

Last week we ran a Windows 8 Kickstart workshop at Microsoft Brisbane. I had a fun morning showing off lots of Windows 8 features on both my laptop and my Samsung “Build” slate. We went through a bunch of content … Continued

We’re going to be presenting a half day Windows 8 kick start session at the Microsoft Brisbane offices in October. It will be a good chance to spend the morning thinking and starting to build your Windows 8 application idea. … Continued