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Kinect SDK And Windows 8 Metro-Style Apps
For a master degree thesis project about NUI (Natural User Interfaces) by Marina Sabetta, student at the Polythecnic of Turin, a home-entertainment embedded system is in development stage: its purpose is to let elder and non-technologic people browse the web, send/receive e-mails, interact through Instant Messengers and use a mobile phone, in a simple and intuitive manner. The prototype is based on Windows 8 Developer Preview and consists mainly of a .NET Metro-style app which acts as Windows system shell.
Read more →Game Review - AnnoyingClicking
An amazing and mind-breaking game to spend your idle times: simple designed, but really hard to play.
Read more →Windows 8 on ARM Detailed
Yesterday Microsoft has released full details on Windows on ARM (or WOA).
Read more →Umbraco on Windows Azure – Part 3 of N
This is the third post of the Umbraco on Windows Azure series. In the first post, I introduced Umbraco CMS, Windows Azure and the reason why you would like to host your Umbraco site on Windows Azure, with a brief manual installation walkthrough. In the second post I presented the open-source helper Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco, which let you to deploy the site on Windows Azure in less than an hour. In this post, we'll see how to solve its thousands daily storage transactions issue.
Read more →Umbraco on Windows Azure – Part 2 of N
This is the second post of the Umbraco on Windows Azure series. In the first post, I introduced Umbraco CMS, Windows Azure, the reason why you would like to host your Umbraco site on Windows Azure and a brief walkthrough to deploy a site manually. In this part, we'll have a look at the open-source helper which will let you to deploy the site on Windows Azure in less than an hour.
Read more →Kinect For Windows released
The official Kinect for Windows SDK has been officially released today.
Read more →Umbraco on Windows Azure – Part 1 of N
This post series divided in n parts will describe my development experiences with Umbraco CMS hosted on Windows Azure, acquired while creating this blog from scratch. Please, feel free to comment, criticize and suggest improvements!
Read more →Welcome To Gianni's Hub
Welcome to my new blog about technology. During the next days, I will write some post about the creation of this blog and some technical solution I developed in order to optimize Umbraco on Windows Azure.
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