Jim Galasyn's Learning Curve
Adventures in developer learning.
Add NFC to your Windows Store app
The indispensable Windows 8 app developer blog has a nice overview of programming NFC in your...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 04/18/2013
Sign up for the Unity for Windows Store Apps open beta
Sign up here. From unity3d.com: Be one of the first Unity developers to port your content to tablets...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 04/16/2013
Channel 9 app drops
Check it out here. Now you can browse the treasure trove of MSDN videos known as Channel 9 from your...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 04/05/2013
BUILD Windows conference announced: June 26 in San Francisco
Here’s the site: BUILD. If you’re developing apps with Microsoft technologies, this is the...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 03/27/2013
Sample Browser app is available in the Windows Store
The MSDN Sample Gallery is the gateway to Microsoft’s software development technologies, from...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 03/23/2013
Developing games for Windows 8? Start here.
Following up on Shai Hinitz’s post, Developing Windows Store games, the Dev Center is hosting new...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 03/22/2013
Kinect SDK 1.7 with Interactions and Fusion is posted
Get it here. This release is very exciting, because it includes the amazing Kinect Fusion feature,...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 03/18/2013
Kinect for Windows developer blog launches with announcement of new open source sample code
Exciting stuff: We are happy to announce we are releasing the Kinect for Windows samples under an...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 03/12/2013
Video: Mapping your location in Windows 8 apps
If you’re writing a Windows Store app, you may want to display the user’s location on a map. This...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 12/07/2012
Surface Pro pricing and availability announced
Yours truly has been using Windows 8 on a Samsung Series 7 slate since May 2012, and it’s been my...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 11/29/2012
Windows Server Posterpedia app is available in the Windows Store
Martin McClean has long been the Keeper of the Posters over in the Windows Server business unit, and...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 11/21/2012
Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by Kraig Brockschmidt
Download: PDF (17.9 MB) EPUB (37.3 MB) MOBI (69.5 MB) Are you a web developer who wants to get your...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 10/31/2012
Introducing Windows Store App Labs for app builders
From the Windows 8 app developer blog: Windows Store App Labs are in more than 30 cities around the...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 10/24/2012
Windows 8 RTM is available for developers
Download here: Windows Dev Center download page. The word from Ian LeGrow on the product team: Two...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 08/15/2012
Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5 released
Download here. Craig Eisler of the Kinect for Windows team has the latest. For me, the most...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 05/21/2012
Microsoft and climate science
Longtime readers of Learning Curve know that I have a great deal of interest in climate science...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 05/07/2012
SkyDrive limited-time loyalty offer: upgrade to 25GB
Sweet: Limited time loyalty offer More on the new SkyDrive features: Making personal cloud storage...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 04/23/2012
Emotiv Engine Client Library is posted at CodePlex
I finally got my act together and posted the code for my EmoEngineClientLibrary, which is a C#...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 03/26/2012
Windows 8 Consumer Preview is live
Download: Windows 8 Consumer Preview At the start of 2012, I moved from the Server business unit to...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 02/29/2012
Kinect-Emotiv mashup prototype
Longtime readers of the Learning Curve know about my fascination with brainwaves, aka, neurodata...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 02/20/2012
Kinect for Windows SDK v1.0 is posted
Download here. In the three months since Beta 2, there have been many improvements to the SDK and...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 02/01/2012
Kinect For Windows SDK beta is posted
Download Kinect for Windows SDK beta. NUI geeks rejoice! The noncommercial Kinect SDK beta is...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 06/16/2011
Building "Windows 8" - Video #1
A first look at the new "Windows 8" user interface. Read more at https://bit.ly/iCTxY6. By...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 06/02/2011
Kinect and WorldWide Telescope at MIX ‘11
Everybody knows that WorldWide Telescope is pretty cool. But when you drive its UI with Kinect, it’s...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 04/14/2011
Live stream from Mix ‘11
Mix ‘11 Live Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Azure,Silverlight,HTML5,Internet Explorer,Windows...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 04/12/2011
Microsoft, Toyota to partner on cloud-powered auto advances
As a Prius owner and Microsoft developer, I find this announcement to be really exciting. There’s a...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 04/06/2011
NYC Kinect event: How to get your Kinect app on Microsoft platforms with Dave Drach
Kinect devs in New York City may want to attend: Map to Microsoft Offices at 1290 Avenue of the...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 03/25/2011
MIX 11 - April 12-14, 2011, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas
Register. Oh, to be able to go this year. So many interesting sessions, I’d be a kid in a candy...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 03/23/2011
Getting started with Kinect development
Turns out that it’s a lot simpler than I thought. The most significant barrier to entry is the USB...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 03/22/2011
Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is posted
Adding my voice to the choir. Download here: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 02/22/2011
Non-commercial Kinect SDK to ship in Spring
If you look around for Kinect SDKs, you’ll find that there are at least three frameworks (OpenNI,...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 02/21/2011
Jan 27th: Change to MSDN blogs user accounts
Here’s the official word: For those of you who sign-in to comment on the MSDN Blogs, there is a...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 01/26/2011
Official Kinect drivers are released
If you’re like me, you’ve been itching to get under the hood of Kinect. The prospect of a true,...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 12/16/2010
Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch
Loyal readers know that I’m enthusiastic about the Windows Phone developer story, so here are some...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 09/29/2010
Patterns and Practices guide: Developing Applications for the Cloud
Download the code samples. The MSFT P&P folks have come up with some great stuff over the years...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 09/21/2010
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools are live
Download: Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW I have high hopes and an app or two in mind for Phone 7....
Author: JGalasyn Date: 09/17/2010
IE9 Beta is posted
Download. I’m a bit late to the party, but here’s a quick blurb on IE9. I was impressed with the...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 09/16/2010
Again with the brainwaves
I’m still playing around with the EPOC neuroheadset by Emotiv, as described in previous posts, such...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 09/07/2010
Test driving the fourth IE9 Platform Preview
At a recent demonstration of Apple’s xCode IDE, the speaker asked the audience how many people liked...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 08/24/2010
Near-realtime power usage reporting up and running at my place
I’m something of an environmentalist and also a data collector, so I was delighted when Microsoft...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 08/16/2010
Don Burnett compares iPhone development to Phone 7
Providing a nice follow-up to my recent post on modern programming environments, Don Burnett...
Author: JGalasyn Date: 07/26/2010