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#Office – Improve your presentation skills (Bonus: new co-authoring features in #PowerPoint)
Hello! Today we are going with a 2 for 1. Public speaking I still remember when David Salgado (@davidsb) showed to me the book Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences (see references). It was many years ago in Microsoft’s office in Madrid. This book helped me understand that behind every presentation, there can be a — read more
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#Podcast – news from Connect 2016: Google, Linux, .net Foundation, Samsung TVs, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio for Macs and more!
Hello! Today’s podcast have some updates from Connect 2016. The format is quick podcast, only with myself and I am pleased to share a little about what most caught my attention from the event. Topics as Google joining .net Foundation, Microsoft announcing it’s Platinum support at Linux Foundation, support for the development of apps for Tizen — read more
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#Hololens – HoloToolkit update for #Unity3D 5.5 on December
Hello! A fast post today, this week was a busy one so I had not time to work on my personal projects. And today is a response to a private question I have a couple of days ago related to the integration of Hololens, HoloToolkit and the new version of Unity 5.5. The response official — read more
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#HoloLens – How to detect hands using #HoloToolkit
Hi ! Someone ask me about the objective of the HandsManager script (part of HoloToolkit).So, if we take a HUD like the one in my previous post, we can use this HUD to display information about hands. The next sample script shows the following hand information: Hands detected Hand pressed I’ll create a complete project — read more
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#Humor – #Microsoft, #Linux and #Apple in a single tweet
Hi ! https://twitter.com/GuyBarrette/status/799591120443416576 In case you can´t read the tweet -Microsoft joins Linux foundation. -Google joins .NET foundation. -Apple releases a $300 book of product photos. Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno Source: Tweet — read more
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#Podcast – #Agile at enterprise level, and another couple of interesting experiences
Hi! After a couple of weeks of silence now is time to publish a new episode in my Podcast. In today’s episode, I am lucky to be with 4 great friends. And, after talking with them for a long time about personal experiences when we work with Agile projects, it was time to gather them — read more
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#VisualStudio – Visual Studio for Mac, a new family member (Bonus: Linux Foundation!)
Hello! Do you remember when Visual Studio was all you needed to create applications? It still the single tool you need. However now, you have several flavors to choose to depend on the application type, and your development style. Today at Microsoft Connect they confirmed the launch of Visual Studio for Mac. However, it seems — read more
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#HourOfCode – #MineCraft time again and now also #Designer mode
Hello! A year ago, I wrote about how we can use Minecraft to learn to program as part of the Hour Of Code program. This is a very good initiative and it will help a lot our children, they can start to understand the way in which a computer solves problems. Note: I — read more
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#HoloLens – Debugging Apps, HoloTip: Disable Intellitrace and Diagnostics Tools
Hello! Most of developers likes the chance to debug an application, this is something that comes as a plus and can help us in tons of scenarios. The case of Hololens is special since we could think in 2 models of debugging Visual Debugging. In addition to debugging, we could speak of 3D environments emulation — read more
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#Humor – You know you are in a software project when …
Hi ! Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno — read more
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#Kinect – #KinectSdk is part of the #WindowsSDK on #Windows10 (almost …)
Hello! When Microsoft released Windows 10 Anniversary Version, one interesting news was related to adding part of the Kinect functionalities into the core of Windows 10. In addition to the camera, features such as IR or depth sensor can now be used with own operating system APIs. (my post on this) As well, this week — read more
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#Microsoft – List of almost all #Insider Programs (the ones I know …)
Hello! I will write this down here since I always forget something and at the end I started to work with inconsistent versions of environments and apps. It’s been a while since Microsoft began allowing users to be part of “XYZ Insider programs”. Insiders programs are focused to Early Adopters and offered the opportunity — read more
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#Hololens – SolutionColor, a #mustHave if you work with #Unity3D (no more problems with the 2 #VisualStudio instances)
Hello ! Sometime ago I wrote about how little comfortable is working with Unity3D in Hololens projects. While HoloToolkit adds functionality to be able to eliminate this problem, usually for each project we finished working always with at least 3 apps Unity3D to create and edit the main project Visual Studio 2015 in editing mode — read more
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#HoloLens – How create a 3D text always visible using #HoloToolkit
Hello! Today I will leave the steps for an almost obligatory scenario we face when we created Hololens Apps: How to display a text message that is always visible on the point of view of the user of Hololens Something similar to the next video As always the steps to create a project, are those — read more
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#Humor – A/B Testing … or maybe not
Hi ! It’s time to relearn my A/B testing ideas… Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno Just in case, Wikipedia A/B Testing — read more
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#VSTS – Now also integrated with #MicrosoftTeams
Hello! Now it is already public: Microsoft Teams have been released! A few hours ago was the official presentation of this tool, which basically comes to compete against Slack. Personally I have to say that I use Slack out of work and I have been testing Microsoft Teams for some time at work. Each has its pros — read more
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#Minecraft – Education Edition now on sale! (you must find the best way to use it)
Hello! Nice news today: Microsoft has released a special Minecraft version for teachers and students : Minecraft Education Edition This was initially meant to be released at the beginning of the school year in the northern hemisphere (September), and now, couple of months later, we finally get this release. There is no major innovation in the — read more
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#HoloLens – #URHOSharp Project Template for Visual Studio 2015
Hello! Quick post on Sunday after I finished in a a very bad shape the Niagara Falls Half Marathon. Thanks to Egor Bogatob (@egorbo) we have a specific project template to create projects UWP for Hololens with URHOSharp. Even if the project type is Universal Windows Platform, the way an App starts is kind — read more
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#Humor – #Apple, the dongle company
Hi ! So, this week we have some Apple announcements, and at the end we realize that now Apple is “The Dongle Company” Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno References Apple accessories Source Twitter https://twitter.com/dbreunig/status/792034409788518401 — read more
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