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This week on Channel 9, Clint and Mark discuss the week's top developer news, including;

• [00:38] Microsoft unveils Xbox One: the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system
• [02:10] Stay Connected with the Ch9 Events App
• [03:25] Putting the power of Unity in the hands of every mobile developer (David...

Today's Hardware Friday project is from friend of the blog, Matt Cavanagh (who is a newly minted Nokia Developer Champion), who provides us a project that's very much a mix of old and new school...

Old school ft. New school: Snake with a Lumia 920 controlling a 5110 LCD using a Netduino

This project definitely...

Today's project by Mick Palmer shows off, with source, one of the killer features of the Kinect, it's superior speech capabilities. And who doesn't want to name their Kinect and to be able to yell (err... talk too) their media player?

SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR THE KINECT: Kinect speech media controller

The...

Speaking of building Windows 8 app's, here's the template of the week. Imagine you

Social Media Dashboard Sample

The Social Media Dashboard sample (for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8) consumes various social feeds and displays them in your app. It is driven from a JSON configuration file so it is very easy...

Today is is like a six for one deal day where we highlight a series of articles from Soul Solutions about our favorite hardware device (and how you can start building with it faster)

Kinect For Windows Interactions Gallery

As the Kinect For Windows SDK has started to evolve, the team has been adding some...

Today's Modern Monday project by Andrew Wilkinson is one of those kinds of projects that makes me love developers.

Imagine this...

Building Windows 8 MVVM app... Gaa, don't like the available templates, but good enough to start with. hack, hack, hack.

Building second app. Ahh, templates again... hack, hack,...

This week on Channel 9, Mark and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including;

• [01:07] Introducing a new Windows Dev Center experience, Windows Dev Center
• [02:25] Windows 8.1 at //build (Windows Keeps Getting Better) (Brandon LeBlanc)
• [03:25] Channel 9 Highlight: Programming Windows with Charles...

While I don't usually highlight stuff you have to pay for (though they do offer a great free trial), this is the first course of this nature at pluralsight and since it covers our favorite hardware device, well, I can make an exception this time.

New course: Building a Real Application with Kinect

John...

Recently on the Coding4Fun Kinect Gallery I highlighted a couple Kinect -> Mouse projects, Is that a mouse on your face? Or your face acting as a mouse? Both? FaceMouse, KinectMouse. And while I don't usually highlight commercial, non-source available projects I thought this pretty cool.

But what if...

As promised on Tuesday, here's this week's second project by David Renton, this time with him showing off (with code) how to do a "green screen" without a green screen...

Kinect No Need 4 Green – The Green Screen without a Green Screen

This little piece of software allows you to produce easily,...