It is official, the world has ended as Microsoft has resurrected the hugely successful Dream Build Play challenge for 2017. The biggest main difference in this resurgence, is that you can now use any tool, framework or language you wish, So long as it targets Windows 10 UWP!.
Just in time for February, my latest title Unity 3D UI Essentials, has now burst forward on to all leading bookstores, in both electronic and print formats (whichever takes your fancy). It has certainly been a fun and wild ride producing this unique title. A title that takes the new Unity UI system for a wild ride and brings along it’s pals, such as the new Unity EventSystem and of course its best friend Open Source code. (See the product page for the title for more info)
Phew, it has been a torturous time since my book was released back in August, my first experience releasing my work in printed / ebook form through a publisher only to find that lots of changes made it in to the book on release. Needless to say I was shocked and have been working hard with the publisher to fix what had been broken.
Not so long ago Intel launched their new perceptual computing vision which effectively is a cheaper alternative to Microsoft Kinect sensor, alongside that they began a challenge to create some inventive apps using the camera and to a select few (about 125+ developers) they offered the chance to win and own one. I entered 3 different apps into the challenge and to me surprise all three got accepted (only got one camera though 
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Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a Giveaway of a new book