The Curse of Kinect

A very patient audience, thanks for putting up with me.

Just completed my Kinect session. Having done lots of tests I then got lots of problems during the demos. But everything worked in the end. For those who were there and wondering what the problem was, I think I’ve found the solution. Sometimes the sensor doesn’t wake up before my update thread tries to use it. Which doesn’t end well. I’ll be putting up a nice long blog post (and some useful code) to address this later.

After I’ve had a lie down..

Windows Phone at MS Days

The audience at the end. Some of them are still smiling....

Just done my Windows Phone session for MS Days here in Bulgaria. Great audience. I promised all the content, you can find the slide decks and sample code here.

Next stop Kinect at 12:45. What could possibly go wrong?

MS Days in Sofia

Got up bright(ish) and early this morning to head for Sofia. Nothing like a 6:10 am flight. But the journey was smooth enough and this time there was no rain when I arrived, which was nice.

This is the rather funky buildings you can see from my hotel room. Although now you’ve seen the photograph there is probably less need to do so.

In the evening we went out to the Timeless Cafe for tea. Nice place. There was a clock there but it had stopped – which seems fair enough. We had a great evening of good food, drink and Geek Speak.

The universal language of beer…

Then it was back to the hotel. Sessions tomorrow, looking forward to them. Hope the audience is too…

Heading for Sofia

I’m on my travels again. Tomorrow morning at the lovely time of 6:10 am I should be flying out to Sofia to take part in MS Days. I’m doing sessions on Windows Phone game development and Kinect fun and games. And I’ve tested all my demos. A lot.

Come and see them all work if you are at the conference.

Word of the day: Snodchortle

The word ‘snodchortle’ doesn’t actually exist. In fact I’ve no idea why I mentioned it really. I just invented it to see how long it is before it turns up in Google search results with a link at the top which says “Buy snodchortle on ebay now.”

Update on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 08:37AM by Rob

snodchortle is now on Google, but hasn't made it onto Bing yet....