TWC9: EF June CTP, jPlayer, Kinect Gesture Toolkit, and a flying car

This week on Channel 9, Dan flies solo covering the week's top developer news (A technical snafu in our other studio hosed the audio of the first recording of the show with Brian Keller).

[00:42] ADO.NET Team - Entity Framework June 2011 CTP available, adds enum and spatial data types, stored procedures can now have multiple results sets, and LINQ queries are now automatically compiled and cached
[01:27] jPlayer.org - jPlayer is a jQuery plugin for cross platform audio and video using HTML 5 tags, via Alvin Ashcraft
[02:08] Jeff Wilcox - A collection of useful Windows Phone "Mango" Performance posts from the SL Windows Phone Performance Team blog
[02:48] Scott Hanselman - Erik Meijer's JavaScript is the assembly language for the Web and whether we need to care about JavaScript and HTML
[04:21] David Catuhe - Use the Kinect SDK Gesture Recognition toolkit to add gestures to your application
[05:15] Greg Duncan - Coding4Fun - Greenshot is a free, open source C# screenshot tool like SnagIt
[06:24] Greg Duncan - Channel 9 Markup and Query Parameters like how to embed videos, or jump to a specific point in a video
[07:10] Windows Azure - Major League Baseball Head-to-Head Stats Dashboard using Windows Azure Data Market
[08:04] Dick Craddock - How Hotmail is 10x faster than before, via Marcelo Lopez Ruiz

Picks of the week!

[09:08] Brian's pick: TFS Build Extensions is a set of customizable pre-built code snippets for customizing TFS Build
[10:03] Dan's pick: Dan wants a flying car and the first prototype is cleared for takeoff and driving

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NickHodgeMSFT Professional Geek

Jul 08, 2011 at 10:49PM

Loved the singular host .. Dan & all his friends <grin/>
Dan

Jul 08, 2011 at 11:06PM

@NickHodgeMSFT:
AdamSpeight2008 The Bandito Coder

Jul 09, 2011 at 1:39AM

I think guy who did the Kinect Gesture Recogination toolkit find or contact someone who can sign.
Imagine learning to sign via the Kinect.
hellokeith

Jul 09, 2011 at 4:36PM

I was wondering that myself. Is the Kinect sensitvie/detailed enough to discriminate individual fingers and their movements?
ZippyV Fired Up

Jul 10, 2011 at 6:49AM

14 hours ago,hellokeith wrote
I was wondering that myself. Is the Kinect sensitvie/detailed enough to discriminate individual fingers and their movements?
No
Dan

Jul 11, 2011 at 10:04PM

@ZippyV: @hellokeith: It depends. The API itself doesn't include support for finger tracking, but some devs have used the raw depth camera to do finger tracking. Now you'll notice you're hand has to be pretty close to the camera, so finger tracking won't work standing 3' away.

I haven't tried it, but it does work with the Kinect SDK - http://candescentnui.codeplex.com/
KeyboardG Hardcore nerd. Bringer of rain.

Jul 14, 2011 at 8:16PM

Can next week be TWC9 fire side chat? Smoking jackets?
Dan

Jul 15, 2011 at 12:51PM

@Dark_Halmut:We should totally do that one week

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