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10 big Las Vegas thrills outside casinos and clubs

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Geek Challenge: Who wants to connect Kinect and XPages?

Think of the possibilities....

The Kinect for Windows SDK beta includes drivers, rich APIs for raw sensor streams and human motion tracking, installation documents, and resource materials. It provides Kinect capabilities to developers who build applications with C++, C#, or Visual Basic by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

via research.microsoft.com

PACLUG registration is closed, but there are still a few spots for laggards.

It's less than 4 days to PACLUG 2011, June 21 and 22 at the Planet Hollywood Hotel in Las Vegas.  The official registration site is now closed, but if you show up we have a few seats left.  We'll give you a special procrastinator's badge, and a backpack full of stuff if we have any left :).

 

Does this seem familiar to anyone else?

Here's SpringPad's Workspace, um, I mean, main page:

 

And then there's the home page:

PACLUG - 200 registrations so far, rooms still cheap, registration still free, backpack is cool, Weather is fine!

Quick PACULG Update:

It's less than 5 days to PACLUG 2011, June 21 and 22 at the Planet Hollywood Hotel in Las Vegas.

About 200 registrations....this is going to be a great show.  Join us for free in Las Vegas!  Don't forget to sign up Here.  It's free but space is limited....And signing up for the VIEW conference does not sign you up for PACLUG - you need to do both.

Did you know we have a backpack?  Filled with gifts and useful items. Plus, there will be contests, games, and other opportunities to get prizes and gifts.

Rooms at the venue, Planet Hollywood, are STILL starting at 71.20 per night!  That's pretty good, they're very nice, recently renovated rooms.

Weather is beautiful!  Upper 90's during the day (90 - humidity = feels like about 75 in the desert), 80's at night.  In the evening you do get a whiff of the Arizona Wildfires.  Smells like camping :).  Bring the swim trunks.

See you there!

 

 

 

Who's worried about SharePoint?

Yes, there's a SharePoint conference this year (FYI, they don't have one every year). And yes, it will probably sell out again this year.   And not just because their evening out is at Disney.  But if you can't make it, no big deal.   Good sportsmen learn how to be where the ball is going to be, not where the ball is....

Apple Engineer Fashions Computer Out of Legos

Carol acknowledges that his computer isn’t as powerful as Babbage’s would have been. “His would have been made of brass,” he says. “Mine’s made out of a plastic children’s toy.”

via www.wired.com

The Beginning of the End of Windows

The company most at risk from this change is the largest vendor of Windows apps, Microsoft itself.  Microsoft Office must be completely rethought for the new paradigm.  You have about 18 months, guys.  Good luck.

By the way, web companies are also at risk.  Your web apps are designed for a browser-centric, mouse-driven user experience.  What happens to your app when the browser melts into the OS, and the UI is driven by touch?  If you think this change doesn't affect you, I have an old copy of WordStar that you can play with.

via mobileopportunity.blogspot.com

Help pick the Extension Library XPages Controls for Core Domino

From this list of controls that are available in the Extension Library,  please indicate which ones you think should graduate to become core controls.

Why Microsoft Has Made Developers Horrified of Coding for Windows 8

Key to the new Windows 8 look and feel, and instrumental to Microsoft’s bid to make Windows a viable tablet operating system, are new-style full-screen “immersive” applications. Windows 8 will include new APIs for developing these applications, and here is where the problem lies. Having new APIs isn’t itself a concern—there’s simply never been anything like this on Windows before, so obviously the existing Windows APIs won’t do the job—but what has many troubled is the way that Microsoft has said these APIs will be used. Three minutes and forty five seconds into this video, Microsoft Vice President Julie Larson-Green, in charge of the Windows Experience, briefly describes a new immersive application—a weather application—and says, specifically, that the application uses “our new developer platform, which is, uhh, it’s based on HTML5 and JavaScript.”

Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

via www.wired.com