Campfire Fun and Games

A great audience to die in front of…

Did my keynote session today at Campfire. It was great fun, once I’d got over my nerves and lack of sleep.Pretty much everything worked as it should, apart from my “bomb proof” Kinect driver wrappers blowing up. Oh well. I said I’d put some resources up here for you to take a look at:

Slides and (mostly working) code from the presentations today - here
C# Yellow Book, Windows Phone Blue book and other free stuff - here
.NET Micro Framework embedded development - here
Gadgeteer embedded development -  here
Three Thing Game student madness – here
Windows Phone development - here
Dreamspark, free software for students - here
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio – here
Kinect For Windows SDK – here

I think that is everything, if you remember something I forgot, let me know and I’ll add it. Once the presentations were over I went for a wander round the city. After some fun and games on the transit I managed to get all the way down to the bay. I took loads of pictures which I’ll play with properly when I get home. In the meantime here are just a couple.

Lovely

A boat on a building? And why not.

More tomorrow, I’m off to bed now…

Flying to Singapore–Day 2

A rather expensive sticker...

This was a bit nerve wracking. I was transferring planes in Jokarta (another airport that looks very like all the airports I’ve been to on this journey) and the chap at the desk asked if I’d paid my “airport transfer fee”. ‘No’ I said nervously, ‘How much is it?’. Turns out that the sticker above costs 150,000 rupees. This was seriously scary. I had visions of having to sell the house just so I could get onto a flight to Singapore. ‘How much is that in US dollars?’ I asked eventually. Turns out that it is 20, which I can just about raise without selling anything major. After that things went swimmingly. and I got to my room in the Fairmont Hotel in time to go straight to bed. Session starts at 10:30 tomorrow morning. Can’t wait.

Flying to Singapore–Day 1

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Heading off to Singapore today. Should arrive tomorrow. Had a rather nice sunset at the gate as we were waiting to board.

Campfire Packing

Spent the evening preparing for my trip to Singapore tomorrow to speak at Campfire. Really looking forward to it, in spite of the 29 hour journey to get there.

Time spent to decide which clothes to take and pack them:3 minutes

Time spent to decide which gadgets to take and pack them:: 2 hours and counting….

Windows Phone 7.1.1 Update

This has nothing to do with Windows Phone. It is the charming bird that wakes us up every morning by singing loudly at around 5:00am and then goes back to sleep. Which is more than we do…

If you are a Windows Phone developer you should install the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 upgrade. This has been out a couple of weeks or so (and I really should have mentioned it earlier). It has some bug fixes, lets you target the new versions of the Windows Phone platform and, perhaps most importantly, it runs under Windows 8. I’m using it on my little portable machine for demos and stuff and it works a treat.