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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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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.
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.
Sketchnotes of a talk titled 'UX Components Deconstructed' by James Chudley and Jesmond Allen from cxpartners, for the Cambridge Usability Group.
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
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.
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.
Dan drinks a Jonathan Brandis Suicide Note (equal parts Jonathan Brandis + Divorced Santa) as Swift looks on. I am so glad to be home.
Japanese Garden＆Art
念佛宗(念仏宗無量寿寺) 総本山 兵庫県加東市
Nenbutsushu Sanpouzan Muryojuji "The Royal Grand Hall of Buddhism"
This is the only temple of the world that Buddha scriptures are dedicated by Buddhist leaders from 33 countries and one region around the world, His Majesty the King, His Excellency Prime Minister, and President of the Country.
- 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
Frank Lloyd Wright - Unity Temple
in Oak Park, IL - USA (1908)
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Unity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation. It was designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and built between 1905 and 1908. Unity Temple is considered to be one of Wright's most important structures dating from the first decade of the twentieth century. Because of its consolidation of aesthetic intent and structure through use of a single material, reinforced concrete, Unity Temple is considered by many architects to be the first modern building in the world.
To accommodate the needs of the congregation, Wright divided the community space from the temple space through a low, middle loggia that could be approached from either side. This was an efficient use of space and kept down on noise between the two main gathering areas: those coming for religious services would be separated via the loggia from those coming for community events. This design was one of Wright's first uses of a bipartite design: with two portions of the building similar in composition and separated by a lower passageway, and one section being larger than the other. The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is another bipartite design.
To reduce noise from the street, Wright eliminated street level windows in the temple. Instead, natural light comes from stained glass windows in the roof and clerestories along the upper walls. Because the members of the parish would not be able to look outside, Unity Temple's stained glass was designed with green, yellow, and brown tones in order to evoke the colors of nature. The main floor of the temple is accessed via a lower floor (which has seating space), and the room also has two balconies for the seating of the congregation. These varying seating levels allowed the architect to design a building to fit the size of the congregation, but efficiently: no one person in the congregation is more than 40 feet from the pulpit. Wright also designed the building with very good acoustics.
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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.
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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