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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

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

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

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

I was invited to be a judge at this years’ Young ICT Explorers QLD competition for the Grade 4-5 category. Students from around the state come to UQ for the final and present their project in ICT to a panel … Continued

We’ve been playing with Kinect for Windows since it launched over a year ago in Beta. There’s a few things we’d really like to see that we think would make it that much better. Here’s our top 10. 1. Make … Continued

Technology Takes You Anywhere (TTYA) -  an event aimed at getting schoolgirls interested in IT was back again this year. This is the 4th year we’ve been involved with the event. This year the location moved to QUT Kelvin Grove … Continued

Today was the exciting day for everyone. Finding out who will win the Imagine Cup for 2012. Just after lunch they took all the contestants out to get a group photo at Darling Harbour. Then one of my favourite parts … Continued

Today was the big day for the top 6 teams. Their final presentation to the panel of judges. It was an interesting morning watching all the cool solutions: Taiwan – had created a device + software to monitor activity levels … Continued

Today was another big day for the competitors and judges. Round 2 meant seeing 3 teams twice in the same day. First up was the normal presentation round where students pitched their solution to a  team of 6 judges. The … Continued

Today was fairly massive. Started at 8am and finished about 10:45 pm. Judged 6 teams today. There were lot of nerve but also lots of excitement and passion about their solutions. Tonight they announced the 20 teams progressing to round … Continued

Today I headed to Sydney ready for the Imagine Cup 2012 World Wide finals. I was fortunate enough to be selected as a judge again this year. As I wandered around the local area it was cool to see the … Continued

Today was the opening ceremony day for Imagine Cup Australia. Registration opened and we were issued with our name tags and event guide for the week. We had  bunch of briefings on our duties as judges for the week. We … Continued

I’ve been progressing a bit with my little IPhone PhoneGap Bing Maps app today. I’m at the stage where I can show my custom pushpins on the map within a polygon and centre the map on the polygon. The next … Continued

In my PhoneGap project I want to grab some data to display on Bing Maps.  Originally I created myself a really neat rest formatted WCF service that return JSON, but after I spent a day pulling my hair out trying … Continued

Yesterday I showed you how to display a bing map in an IPhone Application. The next thing I wanted to do was show, and keep showing the users GPS location on the map. To do this, we use the watchPosition … Continued

Recently I reached my 2 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 24 months we generated 18518, and in the last … Continued

We’ve done a bunch of Bing Maps development before and we’ve done some work with Windows Phone, but we have a client who wants and IPhone application to show some spatial data as most of their internal users have either … Continued

Last week we helped out at the first Kinect Bizspark Start-Up camp at the Microsoft Brisbane Office as part of the Queensland Microsoft Innovation Centre. The goal of the 3 days was for teams to build out an idea with … Continued

Last day in Beijing today. We ventured out on the very long subway ride to the Summer Palace. The subway was packed by towards the end of the journey we managed to get a seat. The summer place grounds are … Continued

After giving up on getting a clear day, let alone a blue sky we’d planned to go to the wall today. We must have spent enough time at the Department of Perfect Picture Day at the Taoist temple yesterday or … Continued

This morning we braved the subway again and headed over to Dongyue Temple – a Taoist Temple which is seemingly in the middle of the business district. After switching lines and wandering out of the train station we walked about … Continued

Today we did the touristy stuff. First we wandered down from the hotel to Tiananmen Square. Then we got in the queue to enter the Forbidden City along with 100’s of other tourists. It was a pretty grey day so … Continued

Today we were up early to head to Beijing. It turned out to be a big day of waiting. We were told it could take 1.5 hours to get to the airport so we left at 7:30am with a cab … Continued

This morning we set off for Mt HuaShan. Gave ourselves plenty of time to find a cab and get to the train station. Luckily there was one sitting outside our hotel so that was nice and easy. Driving around in … Continued

This morning the pandas were out and ready to get their pictures taken. They were out looking for food and apples. The mountains were fairly clear with a decent blue sky this morning. Rain forecast for tomorrow and a hot … Continued

Today was our last day volunteering. Many thanks to Tiger who was absolutely tremendous. No request was to trivial or too much trouble for him. He was Mr. FixIt for the water, washing machine etc. Today we also had to … Continued

Got up early but the pandas weren’t out and about much at all today. Erlang was up near the side fence chilling just before first feed at 8. Today I had yet a different keeper. This one is the usual … Continued