Chris Ismael

Last July 19th I had the awesome opportunity to judge for the iCreate Mobility Challenge run by NUS Computer Centre. They will be showcasing their apps this July 27th (Wed) at the NUS University Hall, Atrium, Level 1, Lee Kong Chian Wing from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM. You are all invited! Below are recorded videos of their presentations during judging (I got the links from https://ivle.nus.edu.sg/). It was hard judging these 3 teams simply because all of them are excellent! See for yourself.. ...

This is a quick post on a simple project demonstrating how you can pass Kinect sensor values to Windows Phone 7 Mango using nodejs. This was inspired by this concept video. (Thanks to Oren for helping me out with me error on the localhost thing in getting node and WP7 to communicate with each other) Steps 1. Install NITE/PrimeSense as described in this post. This will ensure that our Kinect setup is working. This will also have the c++ source code that we will modify later (Don’t worry, no coding required). ...

Today, a bunch of SG developers registered in AppHub got their Mango Beta 2 Connect invite so they can update their WP7 devices to Mango. You can refer to this blog post titled “Developers Get Goody Basket Full of Mangos” from the Windows Phone Developer Blog to find out more about why developers are getting this update. If you’re too lazy to read, here’s the summary towards the end of that post: ...

This post will get you up and running apps for Kinect connected to PC using open source libraries. Mine is running on Windows 7. We’ll assume that you don’t know what you’re doing, and you couldn’t care less about what libraries you’ll use to run this. (You can learn that later). You just want to follow the instructions, run that demo, and start to impress your friends, right? Obviously you need to have the Kinect sensor device with the power adapter for this. ...

We have some good internal folks who gave us permission to post this. It ought to be shared! Enjoy! Highlights | What’s New | Code Samples | Walkthroughs | Features RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS More Code Samples – There are 22 new code samples covering a majority of the platform features in Mango. These code samples are snackable solutions that allow you to hit F5 and go! Most of the samples are also accompanied by a walkthrough so that you can see how it was specifically built and how to extend it for your own apps and games. ...

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There are tons of technical resources out there detailing how to implement/code ACS, which I will share at the end of this post. So I’m not going to go through those. The goal here is to give you an understanding of what ACS is on a high level and why you might need it when securing a part of your site. It is for those who may have heard of ACS before but not entirely sure what it is and what it’s for. Also we have an upcoming Cloud Day event so it’s just appropriate that we post this ...

WebSockets is a technology designed to simplify much of the complexity around bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket. It can be implemented in web browsers, web servers as well as used by any client or server application. The WebSockets API is currently being standardized by the W3C Web Applications Working Group and the protocol is being standardized by IETF Hypertext Bidirectional (HyBi) Working Group. Below is an example from http://html5labs.com/ (sorry for the iframe ) ...

For WP7 developers, registering for an AppHub account lets you submit your application to Marketplace, as well as unlock your device for development. There is a $99US fee when you register. In Step 4 of registering in AppHub, the Payment page looks like this.. You’ll notice that there is a “Redeem Code” option. If you want to receive a code/token, you can email me (chism@microsoft.com) the following details (with Subject: “I want a WP7 token”) so I can confirm that you are planning to build a WP7 app, and that you are based in Singapore: ...

Want to breeze through the new Mango features for WP7 in just 15 minutes? Go through all of them in this Channel 9 interview with Joe Belfiore. You won’t regret clicking. http://bit.ly/i9FIBl