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Thursday, November 18th, 2010

I’ve been busy hacking around with Kinect, the Xbox 360 “controllerless controller” I’ve been writing a lot about recently. Yesterday I got it up and running under Ubuntu, and after that I got a very simple “nearest object” algorithm running on it. Check out the videos below! Also – the code.

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Friday, October 29th, 2010

So the #ukpdc10 event has come to a close. While developers attending the event in the US get yet more content to enjoy, over on the east of the Atlantic we’re calling it a night. But what a brilliant event it has been! First of all thanks must go out to the UK team for [...]

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Thursday, October 28th, 2010

So we’re half way through PDC 2010, Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference. While the US are off having their lunch between sessions, it’s a great opportunity to sit back and take in what has been unleashed upon us in the last few hours. Unfortunately due to this pesky University thing I managed to miss most of [...]

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Saturday, October 16th, 2010

There are some innovative features in IE 9 that I had previously been extremely excited about. These are mostly regarding the browser’s integration with the operating system (especially Windows 7), which is something that Microsoft is in a unique position to provide in an efficient manner. Some of these features are enabled through a JavaScript [...]

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Sunday, October 10th, 2010

One of the sessions I attended at Software Craftsmanship 2010 (the other being on Refucktoring) was called Robot Tournaments. This seemed extremely intriguing to me so I was there with the laptop out ready to try my hand at whatever this tournament was. The idea of the project was to create a battlebot rewarding a rapid development [...]

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