March 22 to 24th Had been waiting for this weekend for awhile, most people who know me know the advocacy and support I give to Autism and Asperger. There has never been a specific hack day for Autism and after the SXSW Autism Apps panel I was pumped for some development. The introductory night went well and Michal from MIT told us all about his new Open Source project for story building and recent research…
So as mentioned we built a project on the Kinect which helped to teach kids emotion through the use of the Kinect sensor. The project was a game called Oh! and consisted of three levels; Ask kids to match the picture card of an emotion to the one being shown, “”Can you match the emotion”” Ask kids to pronounce the emotion, “”This is a happy face can you say happy”” Ask kids to make the…
“I was lucky enough to be handed a Windows8 RT Surface to play with. It is a great tablet one that unlike the Ipad I have been able to actually perform work tasks on. While RT is still limited in the sense that you can not store Desktop applications on it unlike the Windows8 Surface Pro the main navigation and use of Metro Apps remains the same between the two. I like the fact that…
Saturday March 16th What can I say awesome day, started with a lovely welcome to the “Microsoft Nerd Center” all I can say on that is wow what a great choice for a venue. The breakfast snacks were amazing and we were off to start a day of jam packed Joomla fun. Paul the new head of Open Source Matters started the day with the welcome speech giving us an update on what OSM will…
Now with this title I am not saying that you should throw away JQuery etc… not at all… Lord knows I never will. But Mozilla has created a lighter version of JQuery to assist with Mozilla OS development and mobile HTML5 app development in general. When you download Mortar to have a play you will notice it is included. I am playing with Mortar and it is a great kit to get your started with HTML5…
9th March So today Barry Teoh and myself went to a speech about Open Web Standards with Tim Berners Lee, IEEE and Adobe on what they are doing to push open web forward…. I had an interesting discussion with Adobe about there stance on Open Web which I did not think was too aligned with what Tim and IEEE are doing. The meeting was good though and it was interesting as it was a small…