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Ping 171: SXSW wins, Flash & IE, Cross-platform gaming, Office 365 FREE

Laura Foy — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:26:46 GMT

Another week of fun filled debates and conversations. Please share your thoughts on these stories and anything else you think Laura & Paul need to know...

First Place at SXSW Interactive [02:16]

Flash for all [06:42]

Cross Platform is the Future [10:08]

Office 365 free for students [17:43]

QOTW- What software did you rely on during college?

AIR and the Kinect? Oh yeah... AS3NUI AIRKinect

Greg Duncan — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Today's project helps meld to different worlds, Flash and the Kinect. Yep, you can develope AIR applications that integrate with the Kinect with this extension (oh and the source for the extension is available too)...

AIRKinect 2.2 – now with open-source native code

It’s been 3 months since the latest release of AIRkinect, which brought you OpenNI support on windows, but today we’re very happy to bring you 2.2! Some of the new stuff we have is:
Support for seated skeleton tracking (MS SDK)
Near mode support with skeleton tracking (MS SDK)
Option to choose which users to track (MS SDK)
Skeleton bone tracking (both)
We’ve also fixed some bugs concerning initialization failures on the MS SDK version & coordinates not being mirrored correctly on OpenNI.
One of the big new structures you’re going to see is skeleton bones. Skeleton bones is actually the joint rotation info which is moved from the skeleton joints structures into a structure of it’s own. This is mainly because of the differences between OpenNI & the MS SDK. The MS SDK tracks more joints & exposes more joint orientations. OpenNI stores joint rotation info in the start joint of a bone (as an absolute orientation offset from the T-pose), the MS SDK in the end joint. We wanted to create a structure which would be the same in both openNI & windows & exposes.
There is a set of 10 bones which are available on both OpenNI & the MS SDK:
SkeletonBone.NECKSkeletonBone.SPINESkeletonBone.LEFT_UPPER_ARMSkeletonBone.LEFT_LOWER_ARMSkeletonBone.RIGHT_UPPER_ARMSkeletonBone.RIGHT_LOWER_ARMSkeletonBone.LEFT_UPPER_LEGSkeletonBone.LEFT_LOWER_LEGSkeletonBone.RIGHT_UPPER_LEGSkeletonBone.RIGHT_LOWER_LEG
You can get absolute rotation information as a Matrix3D from a given bone with the following code:
user.getBoneByName(SkeletonBone.LEFT_UPPER_ARM).orientation.absoluteOrientationMatrix
Other information you can get is the name of the start joint, name of the end joint and name of the parent bone. If you are using the MS SDK, you get information on 9 more bones (in regular tracking, not seated mode):
MSSkeletonBone.LEFT_COLLARMSSkeletonBone.LEFT_HANDMSSkeletonBone.RIGHT_COLLARMSSkeletonBone.RIGHT_HANDMSSkeletonBone.LOWER_SPINEMSSkeletonBone.LEFT_HIPMSSkeletonBone.LEFT_FOOTMSSkeletonBone.RIGHT_HIPMSSkeletonBone.RIGHT_FOOT
...
There is one more thing to announce: from now on our native C++ sources are open source as well! So if you run into bugs, or want to add new features yourself, please fork & play with the code! Hopefully this will speed up bugfixes / improvements to the native code too

Project Information URL: http://www.as3nui.com/airkinect-2-2-now-with-open-source-native-code/

airkinect-2-core

AS3NUI
AIRKinect Extension is a Native Extension for use with Adobe AIR 3.0. AIRKinect allows AIR developers to tap into the rich experience of the Microsoft Kinect and push interactivity to a new level.
Authors
Ross Gerbasi (rgerbasi@gmail.com)
Justin Imhof (justin@justinimhoff.com)
Wouter Verweirder (wouter@aboutme.be)
Documentation
View documentation online
Requirements
Actionscript IDE supporting AIR 3.0 projects. (Flash Builder 4.6, IntelliJ, FDT, ...)
Windows 7
MS SDK version (airkinect-2-core-mssdk.ane)
Install Microsoft Kinect SDK: http://kinectforwindows.org/
That's it
...

Project Download URL: http://as3nui.github.com/airkinect-2-core/

Project Source URL: http://as3nui.github.com/airkinect-2-core/

Contact Information:

Blog: http://www.as3nui.com/
Twitter: as3NUI

Bytes by MSDN: Victor Gaudioso and Tim Huckaby discuss Silverlight from a Flash background

Bytes by MSDN — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:09:00 GMT

Listen in as Victor Gaudioso, Solutions Advocate for Creative Net Design, chats with Tim Huckaby, Founder of InterKnowlogy, about his experience with Silverlight development coming from an Adobe Flash background and training resources to check out.

About Victor

Victor, a Microsoft Expression Blend Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Solutions Advocate is an independent Windows Presentation Foundation/Silverlight/Windows 7 Mobile/Surface developer, instructor (classroom/video tutorials/written articles), published author (Foundation Blend 2: Building Applications in WPF and Silverlight (2008), Foundation Blend 3 with Silverlight (2009)), and public speaker.

Victor has over 10 years experience in the Web and software development industries and has worked with large Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Universal, Warner Bros., Disney, Mattel, and Paramount Pictures. Victor has worked on some of the most cutting edge WPF and Silverlight applications that have been developed to date; including the Microsoft Surface Winebar CES demo, Surface Air Hockey with simulated physics, and the Surface EventPhotos application which both debuted at PDC in 2008. Victor was also part of the team that launched the Microsoft Silverlight Entertainment Tonight Emmy mini-site, one of the very first Silverlight applications to market.

In his spare time Victor continues to write books under the Friends of ED flagship Foundation series in hopes of presenting the powerful new Microsoft technologies of WPF and Silverlight to developers and designers around the globe. Along with development and writing books, Victor reaches out to the community by teaching WPF and Silverlight in the way of traditional classroom courses at the Rich Media Institute in Venice, California. Victor produces video tutorials on his personal blog and recently for Microsoft in the form of Expression Starter Kits. Victor holds online interactive workshops as well as public speaking engagements (most recently Flashapoolozastock IV in October 2009). Victor recently co-founded the first Los Angeles Silverlight user group (LASLUG) with Microsoft.

About Tim

Tim Huckaby is the Founder of InterKnowlogy, experts in Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Platforms, and has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, an MVP and serves on multiple Microsoft councils and boards. Currently, Tim is focused on RIA & Rich Client Technologies like WPF, VSTO, Surface, Silverlight, Windows 7 Touch, and Windows Phone 7. He has been called a "Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution" by the press. Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest-rated keynote for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world and is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at these events. Tim has also done keynote demos for numerous Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

Stuff Victor and Tim recommend you check out

ARCast.TV - How Chyron Uses Silverlight for TV Graphics

Bob Familiar — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:33:00 GMT

Have you ever wondered about the production that goes into all the graphics that are shown during your favorite sporting events? Chyron is the industry leader in all aspects of providing graphics for TV programming.

Jim Cirone sits down with Jeff Wolski, Sumit Sahni and Daniel Kim from Chyron to discuss their use of Silverlight and some open source frameworks to build their next generation graphic asset production solution.

Adobe Flash Now Works with IE8's InPrivate Mode

Sarah Perez — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:11:00 GMT

Adobe just announced that their latest version of Flash supports InPrivate Browsing, according to a post on the IEBlog. This new update, version 10.1, now creates something called “Flash Cookies,” small files similar to browser cookies but created by Flash instead. With these Flash cookies, websites can store data on your machine. However, when you browse the web in IE8’s “InPrivate” mode, the anonymous browsing mode that leaves no record of your activity behind, those Flash cookies now get deleted along with all your other internet activity upon closing the IE8 window.

“Prior to Flash Player 10.1, Adobe’s player behaved the same whether the browser was in private browsing or not,” explains Jimson Xu on Adobe’s blog. “Browsers could clear browser data temporarily stored during a private browsing session, such as cookies and history, but they were unaware of the data stored in Flash Player local storage.” The updated version of Flash essentially solves the issue of having this sort of data retained on your PC. For the technical details about this new feature, check out Xu’s post here.

Silverlight TV Episode 2: Perspectives on Flash and Silverlight

John Papa — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:07:00 GMT

Mike Downey (Principal Evangelist) shares his experiences with Flash, Flex and Air and discusses how they compare with Silverlight's offerrings. Hear Mike, a former Flash evangelist for 9 years before coming to Microsoft last year, discuss his decision to switch to Silverlight and what incredible projects he has already influenced with Silverlight.

For more information see the Flash to Silverlight Guide

TCSWeekly 002 - Obama, Silverlight 3, 3D Models and Virtual Earth

Adam Kinney — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:05:00 GMT

The biggest news from last week in the Microsoft Client World is tied to the biggest news of January, possibly of the year 2009. If you haven't already heard it echoed on twitter and blogs, last week the Presidential Inauguration Committee announced the event will be streamed in Silverlight. If you missed the ceremony you're in luck, they will also be making the video available on demand in the future.

Other Stories mentioned in this episode include:


<-- Episode 1		Episode 3 -->

Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile supports Flash et al

JD Lewin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:30:00 GMT

The race to enable embedded web content on mobile devices is a serious one, as clearly none of us enthusiasts will be happy until Youtube videos and Myspace music players are available at all times. Enter Skyfire and their browser for just about any WM5/6 device, which uses some server-side voodoo to enable wicked browsing speed and no lack of code support. While it's currently in private beta, if you ask really nicely you may get the hook-up.

(via Engadget)

A Flash Guru Talks about Silverlight

Joshua Allen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:17:00 GMT

Jesse Warden (dot Kizz-ohm) was recently in town to meet with Bill Gates and the Silverlight team. Jesse is well-known for helping people fuse hardcore coding and Flash design. Between the lively and top-secret internal meetings, Nishant grabbed a camera and asked Jesse to share some of his thoughts with us. You'll hear his thoughts about where the industry is headed, as well as some unedited and frank feedback about where the industry players are doing well and not so well.

A Flash Drive that Backs Itself Up

Sarah Perez — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:29:00 GMT

The 4 GB SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Plus USB flash drive is a new breed of flash drive. Instead of being a potential security risk, you can safely store your sensitive, important data on the drive without fear of losing it or deleting the files. The device is protected with password protection and hardware AES encryption, so you only you can access the files. When the Cruzer is plugged into an internet-connected machine, the drive will automatically back itself up online using 256-bit SSL encryption. If you accidentally delete files off of the drive, they can be easily restored from the online backup. Additionally, the files can be accessed via the website even when you don't have have the drive with you. The rugged, crush resistant case offers a layer of physical protection to the USB drive as well. An optional Lost-and-Found service can be utilized if you choose to pay the added expense for a BoomerangIt subscription. The drive comes with 6 months of the online backup service for free, after which you must pay the $30 annual fee to continue using it. For all this, the Cruzer's price of only $60 seems pretty reasonable for the security and peace of mind that it offers. (Via Webware)

.40s and Silverlight make the world go'round

Larry Larsen — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:25:00 GMT

Taking the win for the last thing I expected to see in my Inbox this morning, here is a video of Ice Cube talking about dropping Flash for Silverlight in his UVNTV venture. As it turns out, our own Michael Scherotter paid Ice Cube a visit down in Hollywood, so give it a view if you want to see DJ Pooh & crew wax philosophically on the benefits of the VC1 codec. From the TV grid metaphor to the high quality video, it looks like a really nice implementation of the technology.