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Show and tell sessions for Tuesday the 1st February

We had a different format this time, six show and tell sessions:

• Mike Hadlow - Monads! What are they and why should you care? A short version of my DDD9 talk.
  blog posts. Session code on github The Monad Wikipedia page is excellent, if somewhat intimidating. The references and external links are an excellent starting point for further investigation.
  Video is here

• Steve Mason - N2CMS - A poke around possibly the best .NET CMS on the planet. Homepage - http://n2cms.com/ Source code - http://github.com/n2cms/n2cms/ (the Google code & codeplex repositories are old & unused) Discussions - http://n2cms.codeplex.com/discussions
  Video is here
  

• Andrew Cherry - A simple server tool kit - a look at a little server written from scratch in .NET (Hopefully! Work etc. permitting...) The source will be opened up soon on Github, for now follow @socketmachine - announcements etc. will always be there from now on. Code will be published under the xyncro org on Github (https://github.com/xyncro) but be aware that there is nothing currently there now - this is intentional.
  Video is here

• Jay Kannan - Simple Kinect Demo. Using the Kinect to control .NET applications. the demo concentrated on a Game Environment using the XNA platform and 3D physics for creating and bouncing bubbles around the screen. a long way to go to make it usable. the Kinect is clearly the best Augmented reality / motion control platform of choice for Kiosk makers and for public user interaction. look at the links below for more information.
• Kinect Hacks
• PrimeSense OpenNI this is the official library from the CHipset guys that I'm using
• OpenKinect
• Code Laboratories
  Video is here

• Michael Steele - Netduino. Looking at SDK, getting LED to flash etc. before investing in shields.
• blog My introductory blog for netduino - will update with the burglar alarm & operation game
  Netduino forum
  .Net Micro Framework
  tinyclr Fez community website - Another board running .Net Micro Framework
  Scott Hanselman Micro Framework/Netduino podcasts
  Build Brighton meet every Thursday at The Skiff to tinker with electronics.
  

       Also you can google or use youtube and search for arduino/netduino. There's loads of examples
Video is here

• Paul Hazells - Can twitter predict the stock market? (or one man's foolish attempt at doing so with node.js & twitter)
  http://aws.amazon.com/free/ - AWS Free Usage Tier
  http://nodejs.org/ - node.js
  https://github.com/isaacs/npm - npm (node package manager)
  https://github.com/technoweenie/twitter-node - twitter-node
  https://github.com/indexzero/forever - forever
  http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/ - sparklines (for the graphs)
  http://html5boilerplate.com/ I forgot to mention the HTML5 boilerplate which I've also used. I saw a few of the group at the DDD9 talk on this so thought it might be of interest. I'd definitely recommend it for new projects, especially if you need to support older browsers. 
  

       If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to ask me either at a meeting or via twitter: @paulhazells