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Tag Archives: Development
Sunday, February 20th, 2011

I have recently been writing a lot of code (and open-sourcing it – see here, here, here, here, here, here / here, here, here) and today came across a particular problem and a rather convenient solution provided by PHP’s visibility rules for methods and properties of classes.

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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

The full release of WebMatrix is now available. It’s a great tool designed to be easy to use to build great websites. It comes with a load of built in project templates including DotNetNuke, Joomla, WordPress and more. You may have noticed this list includes PHP software – WebMatrix and the servers that support it [...]

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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

I have written and talked in the past on the subject of hacking Kinect, and how awesome it would be to hook it up to our robot project at Uni. Well I’m pleased to say that last week we achieved robot arm control with the Kinect sensor, using it to measure arm position and relay [...]

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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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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

On Sunday night, the SD card in my phone became corrupt when I plugged it in to my PC (I don’t know why) – but that’s a story for another day. It was when I was fixing it that I realised about how Windows, in the past 5 or 6 years, has moved gradually into [...]

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