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[#KINECT] You can buy right now the new Kinect for Windows V2!(ok, you’ll get this on July…)
Hello! Yes, you can buy one right now, but you will begin to deliver from July 15 (which gives the time needed to see the full world). On the official blog of MSDN’s Kinect, have made public this news and also have a photo of a kinect levitating it will surely be a Special Edition.… — read more
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[#EVENT] Spanish WebCast: What’s new in Kinect SDK V2 Beta (#WinRt development included!)
Hi! Almost a month ago, the MSDN Latinoamérica team invited me to host a webcast about Kinect V2 SDK features. Due personal reasons, I couldn’t make it, but I didn’t forgot about this. June 10th is the new date for this webcast, it will be at 16:00 Latam time and 22:00 Europe time. Same description… — read more
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[#HUMOR] Code Comments
Hi! One more time Geek&Poke dudes … now about some behaviors when you comment code Source: http://geek-and-poke.com/geekandpoke/2014/5/29/herding-cats Saludos @ Home El Bruno Google — read more
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[#TFS2013] #Imaginet TimeSheet for #TFS and #VSOnline
Hello! It has been some time since I’ve talk about Imaginet. Imaginet is probably one of the best ALM partners you can choose and also they have a deep knowledge about the ecosystem of Visual Studio ALM. A plus of this, is they also have a good taste for the communities and they share some… — read more
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[#LEAP] What’s new in #LeapMotion SDK V2 Beta
Hello! Friends of the Leap Motion are that they leave. Yesterday they have released a new version of the SDK and the truth is that it brings quite a few interesting things. Among them there are 2 that are especially useful: Pitch and Grab. In the following video you can see how the action of… — read more
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[#PEBBLE] Send #Lync2013 messages to your Pebble
Hello! The work with distributed teams is more than interesting, it relies on having Lync 2013 all the time online and see how many people respect the States Available, Busy, or Away. It is very likely that if these in front of the computer and a colleague of Australia does not start a conversation, Miss… — read more
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[#PEBBLE] Working with accelerometer
Hello! Finally, this week I spend a couple of days playing with Visual Studio 2013 and C++ for Pebble. One of the topics I have pending is to learn is how to work with the motion sensor API. The first thing we have to bear in mind, is that like the clock, accelerometer works as… — read more
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[#VS2013] Productivity Power Tools 2013, Welcome to Syntactic Lines!
Hello! If you’re like me and changes your source code editor font size to 8 points, to see “more code” at a single glance, surely this new feature of the Productivity Power Tools 2013 will be good for you. It is called Syntactic Lines and what it does is reduce by 25% the size of… — read more
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[#HUMOR] Quino today…
Hello! If you do not live under a rock, surely you know about that Quino has won the Prince of Asturias Award (here andhere). I have grown among the 10 volumes of Mafalda and although small it caused me grace humor of Quino, today I see that behind each line, there was more, much more…… — read more
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[#VSONLINE] Visual Studio Online and Active Directory = true!
Hello! Sometimes we have to wait until the public announcements so we can give good news, this is kind of a Zen exercise, good patience. Here it is: The integration between Visual Studio Online and AZURE Active Directories are now available! Kudos to the team of Visual Studio Online !!!; this is very important for… — read more
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[#VS2013] Refactor > Rename in C++? now you got it!
Hello! Before that I’m going to see if I can change the bird and arrive a little before Madrid, I find this tool than the truth that without ReSharper, as I’ve been saved the day: Visual C++ Refactoring And now the quick post: you are a developer, you know what is the issue, that if… — read more
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[#VS2013] HowTo: See / debug info that goes through a Serial port (Serial = COM = Bluetooth! thanks #VisualMicro)
Hello! When you debug apps for connected devices to your computer, is always important to be able to “see” the information being sent between your laptop and the device. If the environment involves an Arduino, it is quite simple. You can do it with the Arduino IDE with the option “Serial Monitor” This viewer is… — read more
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[#OFFICE] #OfficeMix and some analytics
Hi! Do you remember my post about OfficeMix? as soon as I finish the post I drop in the draft folder the following post about analytics. The analytics stuff is very simple, once you get a Mix online, you can access to the Manage option. Inside this option you get some other actions, included “Analytics”… — read more
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[#ALM] #SCRUM, the #Atleti and the Cholo
Hello! If you don’t like soccer / football I recommend that you keep not reading this post. Although we must differentiate between people who don’t like football and people who are “anti-football”. The people of the 2nd group are characterized by trying to impose their vision in any place and with any group of people… — read more
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[#HUMOR] Happy BDay Visual Basic !!! (50 years, older the me!)
Hola! I have very very good memories of Visual Basic, it was the first “real programming language” for me, I mean the first professional one. After VB I’ll get to C, C++, Java, C#, etc. However (forgetting the stuff in university), Visual Basic 6.0 was the first language who make me very happy enjoying programming.… — read more
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[#CODING4FUN] No more boring costumes, you only need an #Arduino, a motion sensor and a LED Strip!
Hello! If your wife isn’t close to and you get to make the Space Cadet from your girl costume, likely that you leave a little bit of mold. In my case it was simple; Arduino, a motion sensor, led and Visual Studio 2013. Note: I never tire of repeating how useful that is Visual Micro… — read more
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[#PEBBLE] Working with buttons (III) and some animations
Hello! After my previous post on How to subscribe to the click event button in Pebble, today I will continue with the example, doing an app a little bit more interactive. The first thing is to add a couple of images that we are going to use in the app. Using MetroStudio (excellent app with… — read more
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[#OFFICE] Office Mix, amazing extension for #PowerPoint!
Hello! Since a few years ago we decided to minimize the use of PowerPoint presentations. Some people thinks in PowerPoint as a bad tool, when in reality it is an excellent tool!. What happens is that many times we find people who think that “the PowerPoint supports everything” and creates overloaded slides, in a way… — read more
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[#VSONLINE] HowTo: Migrate #TFS2013 or #OnPremise projects to Visual Studio Online
Hello! At last! The OpsHub people are amazing. In addition to having a great product for integrating TFS with other ALM solutions; “OpsHub Integration Manager“; now they offer free of charge, a specific version of this app to migrate content from a Team Foundation Server On Premise to Visual Studio Online. I still don’t know… — read more
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[#ALM] Agile Customers are a #MustHave (and of course this to use Microsoft Feedback Client)
Hello! Yesterday I make a statement: if we want to have visible results, the first distinction that we have to do; is not to be oriented in the technology trend (or architecture or development roles) but instead try to create a context orientated to the business itself; in this team work you’ll fin customers and… — read more