Category Archives: Development

TechDays 2010: Real-World Patterns for Cloud Computing

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Rob Burke

'Real World Patterns for Cloud Computing' Demo Path

If it’s Autumn, it must be time for TechDays again here in Canada. This year I was Microsoft Canada’s Content Lead for the “Real-World Patterns for Cloud Computing” session. The Toronto flavour of the event has been taking place yesterday and … Continue reading →

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Legend of the Greasepole gets the Silverlight 4 + Analytics treatment

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Rob Burke

Legend of the Greasepole has been ported to Silverlight 4 and reincarnated on http://greasepole.net. Greasepole is the long-suffering game about multimedia tribute to the inexplicable Engineering traditions at Queen’s University in Canada. Over 50 students contributed to the project back in … Continue reading →

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Development, Games and XBox, Microsoft | Tagged Achievements, Analytics, feedback, Greasepole, Legend of the Greasepole, Silverlight, Silverlight 4, Visual Studio 2010 | Leave a comment

Cross-Country Olympic Mind Games

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Rob Burke

During the Winter Olympics, the lights of the CN Tower are taking part in an interactive art installation that’s controlled by a participant’s brainwaves.

What I like about the CN Tower installation (in addition to the cross-country nature of the biofeedback loop) is how they teach participants to generate the correct brainwave patterns. We faced a similar challenge back at MediaLabEurope. Continue reading →