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CNUG April 2012 Users Group
Get Yourself Kinect-ed
This month we look at how you can build Windows applications that utilize Microsoft Kinect for Windows.
Prior to the regularly scheduled CNUG meeting the Chicago Azure Cloud Users Group and Scott Seely will present "Intro to Windows Azure and Windows Azure Appfabric" at 5:30PM.
Sponsor: Solving IT!
Website: www.solvingit.com/
When: April 18th
Where: Microsoft Downers Grove
3025 Highland Parkway
Downers Grove, IL
Agenda:
5:30PM - Arrival
6:30PM - Food and Beverages
7:00PM - Get Yourself Kinect-ed! - Greg Levenhagen, Skyline Technologies
Abstract:
Kinect development used to mean hacking without any support, but now that the Kinect SDK, Kinect for Windows hardware and commercial support for non-XBOX 360 applications has been released, the full power of the Kinect is unleashed. Come see how to start developing with the Kinect, using its hardware features and what the Kinect SDK provides.
Speaker Bio:
Greg Levenhagen has been designing and developing enterprise solutions, leading projects for a variety of businesses for over 10 years and has worked on a diverse set of platforms using many different tools. He is a true enthusiast of computer science, with passions and interests including mobile, cloud, architecture, parallel, testing, agile, ALM, UX, 3D/games, languages and much more. Greg is a Senior Software Engineer with Skyline Technologies, Board member of the Fox Valley .NET User's Group, cofounder of the Northeast WI Agile User’s Group, INETA speaker, IEEE member, ACM member, substitute professor and a PhD student.
Along with being a life-long geek, Greg enjoys golfing, football, woodworking, philosophy and stimulating conversation.
You can find Greg at devtreats.com and @GregLevenhagen.
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CNUG April 2012 Users Group
Get Yourself Kinect-ed
This month we look at how you can build Windows applications that utilize Microsoft Kinect for Windows.
Prior to the regularly scheduled CNUG meeting the Chicago Azure Cloud Users Group and Scott Seely will present "Intro to Windows Azure and Windows Azure Appfabric" at 5:30PM.
Sponsor: Solving IT!
Website: www.solvingit.com/
When: April 18th
Where: Microsoft Downers Grove
3025 Highland Parkway
Downers Grove, IL
Agenda:
5:30PM - Arrival
6:30PM - Food and Beverages
7:00PM - Get Yourself Kinect-ed! - Greg Levenhagen, Skyline Technologies
Abstract:
Kinect development used to mean hacking without any support, but now that the Kinect SDK, Kinect for Windows hardware and commercial support for non-XBOX 360 applications has been released, the full power of the Kinect is unleashed. Come see how to start developing with the Kinect, using its hardware features and what the Kinect SDK provides.
Speaker Bio:
Greg Levenhagen has been designing and developing enterprise solutions, leading projects for a variety of businesses for over 10 years and has worked on a diverse set of platforms using many different tools. He is a true enthusiast of computer science, with passions and interests including mobile, cloud, architecture, parallel, testing, agile, ALM, UX, 3D/games, languages and much more. Greg is a Senior Software Engineer with Skyline Technologies, Board member of the Fox Valley .NET User's Group, cofounder of the Northeast WI Agile User’s Group, INETA speaker, IEEE member, ACM member, substitute professor and a PhD student.
Along with being a life-long geek, Greg enjoys golfing, football, woodworking, philosophy and stimulating conversation.
You can find Greg at devtreats.com and @GregLevenhagen.
View the high resolution image on my photo website
Users most likely have a different opinion about the design - in this case the pavement...
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CNUG April 2012 Users Group
Get Yourself Kinect-ed
This month we look at how you can build Windows applications that utilize Microsoft Kinect for Windows.
Prior to the regularly scheduled CNUG meeting the Chicago Azure Cloud Users Group and Scott Seely will present "Intro to Windows Azure and Windows Azure Appfabric" at 5:30PM.
Sponsor: Solving IT!
Website: www.solvingit.com/
When: April 18th
Where: Microsoft Downers Grove
3025 Highland Parkway
Downers Grove, IL
Agenda:
5:30PM - Arrival
6:30PM - Food and Beverages
7:00PM - Get Yourself Kinect-ed! - Greg Levenhagen, Skyline Technologies
Abstract:
Kinect development used to mean hacking without any support, but now that the Kinect SDK, Kinect for Windows hardware and commercial support for non-XBOX 360 applications has been released, the full power of the Kinect is unleashed. Come see how to start developing with the Kinect, using its hardware features and what the Kinect SDK provides.
Speaker Bio:
Greg Levenhagen has been designing and developing enterprise solutions, leading projects for a variety of businesses for over 10 years and has worked on a diverse set of platforms using many different tools. He is a true enthusiast of computer science, with passions and interests including mobile, cloud, architecture, parallel, testing, agile, ALM, UX, 3D/games, languages and much more. Greg is a Senior Software Engineer with Skyline Technologies, Board member of the Fox Valley .NET User's Group, cofounder of the Northeast WI Agile User’s Group, INETA speaker, IEEE member, ACM member, substitute professor and a PhD student.
Along with being a life-long geek, Greg enjoys golfing, football, woodworking, philosophy and stimulating conversation.
You can find Greg at devtreats.com and @GregLevenhagen.
View the high resolution image on my photo website
Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
The to-do book in the lower left is how I effectively organize my days. I sit down and write down the tasks for the day every morning when I first get in, and move over what wasn't done from the previous day. The 15" MacBook Pro is my main work machine, while the 13" is what I use for background tasks, and also the computer that I take home at night and over the weekend. It sits on the shelf between a steel L-bracket and the iPod holder, which is made out of an old DAT tape case. Both computers use the same mouse and keyboard via the Mac OS X implementation of Synergy. The external drive is for Time Machine backup on the 15", which is rsynced once a week with the 13".
The computers are named for two of my favorite physics professors from my undergrad years.
In Interactive Design 3, students are asked to select from one of three client briefs to develop a social change project. Cherie, Michael and Jay chose to develop a mobile application to assist with earthquake preparedness. The application offers device features, such as RSS, GPS tracking and "bounce location" to sustain user correspondence during disaster relief efforts.
The team divided the roles and responsibilities to tackle strategic review, competitive analysis, moodboards, user experience, information architecture and interactive design.
Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.
One of four NAVCAM mosaic images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, using images taken on 2 November 2014 when Rosetta was at a distance of 33.4 km from the centre of the comet. More information in the Rosetta blog: blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/05/cometwatch-02-november/
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How to create and configure a MySQL user from the command line
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Centro de Tenis LA CAJA MÁGICA (THE MAGIC BOX)
Arquitecto: Dominique Perrault: 2003-2005 (Proyecto) 2005-2009 (obras)
El conjunto se sitúa en un arco del río Manzanares, en el distrito de Usera, frente al Poblado de S. Fermín, con accesos por el camino de Perales y la prolongación de la calle de Embajadores dentro de a segunda fase del Parque Lineal del Manzanares Sur cuyo plan Director fue proyectado por el arquitecto Ricardo Bofill en 1998, que también se encargó de la ejecución de la primera fase del parque entre 2001 y 2003. El núcleo central de la 2ª fase del Parque Lineal del Manzanares es la denominada “Caja Mágica”, una de las actuaciones estelares de la candidatura olímpica "Madrid 2012" para Centro Olímpico de Tenis, según proyecto, ganador del concurso de 2002, del prestigioso arquitecto francés Dominique Perrault. La obra, iniciada en 2005, ralentiza en su ejecución al no designarse Madrid sede olímpica. Se retoman las obras, ante la imposición de los organizadores del Master de Tenis de Madrid, a fin de no perder la organización de tal evento. Definitivamente el complejo se culmina en 2009 y se incorpora a la nueva candidatura olímpica "Madrid 2016"
El conjunto se materializa mediante la conjunción de una serie de elementos arquitectónicos y paisajísticos cuyo bloque central es La Caja Mágica propiamente dicha. El concepto de caja mágica viene dado por su envoltura que se abre y se transforma siguiendo los usos del complejo deportivo, y creando una silueta cambiante y vivaz en el paisaje. Esta piel brillante y vibrante filtra el sol y protege, como una leve muralla, los pabellones deportivos. Caja Mágica que reivindica la arquitectura como envolvente para crear un lugar abierto día y noche, cuya silueta varíe en cada evento. Por sus dimensiones y carácter, puede albergar programas culturales y deportivos, al aire libre o cubiertos. Caja de sorpresas donde se solapan dos mundos, en la cota más baja el de los profesionales del deporte y por encima el público. Su piel móvil, en paneles de vidrio y tejido metálico, filtra de día la luz solar y de noche centellea con matices festivos y luminosos, suaviza vientos dominantes e impide el paso de la lluvia. Sobre un plano de agua los reflejos se multiplican convirtiendo el edificio en un elemento vivo en continuidad con el entorno natural. Las cubiertas móviles suponen un reto estructural, pueden abrirse completamente o quedar entreabiertas para proporcionar una sombra controlada y constante sobre los terrenos de juego. Por ello todas las pistas pueden utilizarse tanto al aire libre como cubiertas total o parcialmente gracias a unos mecanismos que permiten deslizar el techo para abrirlo o levantarlo como si de la tapa de una verdadera caja se tratara, lo que da la posibilidad de que se jueguen hasta tres partidos simultáneos en caso de lluvia, algo que ningún otro torneo en tierra del mundo ofrece. La pista central, llamada “Manolo Santana”, tiene capacidad para 12.500 personas; la segunda, dedicada a Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, 3.800 plazas; y la tercera 2.500. Realizada completamente en acero, madera y vidrio, la Caja Mágica garantiza el ahorro energético gracias a su cubierta de malla de acero inoxidable tensada con tapas de aluminio natural. La fachada está recubierta de una malla de acero inoxidable tensada, lo que confiere al edificio un aspecto dinámico y cambiante: de día, reflectante y opaco; de noche, centelleante.
El Edificio de Tenis-Indoor, alojará la Sede Madrileña de la Federación Española de Tenis, y cuenta con 11 canchas de tenis cubiertas que se usaran tanto para el entrenamiento como para la exhibición., escuela de tenis y centro de alto rendimiento con instalaciones adicionales como alojamientos, piscina cubierta, salas de prensa, zonas de restauración… El edificio presenta dos fachadas radicalmente diferentes; la orientada al Camino de Perales, de menor escala, formada por un muro cortina longitudinal, y la opuesta, enfrentada a la Caja Mágica y al Parque, con dos tratamientos, la zona de las pistas de exhibición es también acristalada, pero con la estructura vista, y la de la zona de las pistas de entrenamiento, formada por malla metálica.
CNUG April 2012 Users Group
Get Yourself Kinect-ed
This month we look at how you can build Windows applications that utilize Microsoft Kinect for Windows.
Prior to the regularly scheduled CNUG meeting the Chicago Azure Cloud Users Group and Scott Seely will present "Intro to Windows Azure and Windows Azure Appfabric" at 5:30PM.
Sponsor: Solving IT!
Website: www.solvingit.com/
When: April 18th
Where: Microsoft Downers Grove
3025 Highland Parkway
Downers Grove, IL
Agenda:
5:30PM - Arrival
6:30PM - Food and Beverages
7:00PM - Get Yourself Kinect-ed! - Greg Levenhagen, Skyline Technologies
Abstract:
Kinect development used to mean hacking without any support, but now that the Kinect SDK, Kinect for Windows hardware and commercial support for non-XBOX 360 applications has been released, the full power of the Kinect is unleashed. Come see how to start developing with the Kinect, using its hardware features and what the Kinect SDK provides.
Speaker Bio:
Greg Levenhagen has been designing and developing enterprise solutions, leading projects for a variety of businesses for over 10 years and has worked on a diverse set of platforms using many different tools. He is a true enthusiast of computer science, with passions and interests including mobile, cloud, architecture, parallel, testing, agile, ALM, UX, 3D/games, languages and much more. Greg is a Senior Software Engineer with Skyline Technologies, Board member of the Fox Valley .NET User's Group, cofounder of the Northeast WI Agile User’s Group, INETA speaker, IEEE member, ACM member, substitute professor and a PhD student.
Along with being a life-long geek, Greg enjoys golfing, football, woodworking, philosophy and stimulating conversation.
You can find Greg at devtreats.com and @GregLevenhagen.
View the high resolution image on my photo website
A luggage vendor checks his cell phone on March 3, 2011, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo by Kendra Helmer/USAID
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In Interactive Design 3, students are asked to select from one of three client briefs to develop a social change project. Cherie, Michael and Jay chose to develop a mobile application to assist with earthquake preparedness. The application offers device features, such as RSS, GPS tracking and "bounce location" to sustain user correspondence during disaster relief efforts.
The team divided the roles and responsibilities to tackle strategic review, competitive analysis, moodboards, user experience, information architecture and interactive design.
Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.
Dan drinks a Jonathan Brandis Suicide Note (equal parts Jonathan Brandis + Divorced Santa) as Swift looks on. I am so glad to be home.
I believe this is pretty accurate, based on 17 years of internet use and 14 years of working with communities/users/subliterate rant machines online.
Better bigger.
- A study of user-centered design and usability in Hong Kong and China internet world. A journey to user experience design for users and by users
In Interactive Design 3, students are asked to select from one of three client briefs to develop a social change project. Cherie, Michael and Jay chose to develop a mobile application to assist with earthquake preparedness. The application offers device features, such as RSS, GPS tracking and "bounce location" to sustain user correspondence during disaster relief efforts.
The team divided the roles and responsibilities to tackle strategic review, competitive analysis, moodboards, user experience, information architecture and interactive design.
Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.
How to create and configure a MySQL user from the command line
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Sandhya Ghimire took this picture of the flags in the UMass Boston Campus Center to show diversity matters here.