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Today I finally received my LeapMotion. I sent in a pre-order over a year ago, and they finally released it a few days ago. Seeing as I received it today, I wanted to write a little about my first impression. So far, so good! The first thing I had to do was to install the driver, to make it work. The installation was easy. You get directed to a setup page at LeapMotions web sites, where you download your installer. While you wait for the download to finish, you have the chance to see a video as an introduction. The installation itself went smooth and then it’s time to connect the device. A firmware update was installed, and then Airspace Home (were you can start all your apps) started. ...

So recently I’ve been starting to work a bit with the Windows Phone 8 SDK, and since I don’t own a WP8 phone myself, my only option for testing is using the emulator from Visual Studio. At first I was hoping to use a virtual machine with Windows 8, but that gave me quite a bit of trouble. I got some error messages stating that there was some issues with the network interface, and after some googling I concluded that you cannot run the emulator inside a virtual machine. ...

Recently I have been working with a project requiring the use of SOAP. Beforehand my knowledge of SOAP was not great, but I had the basic idea of it. This project was therefore quite fun to do, because it caused a few challenges, and I learned a lot. The idea was fairly simple; a customer should give some information (name, birthdate and zip number) to initiate an order form. This information was to be sent to a service called NUBIX, which would use this information to fetch more information about the customer. This extended information would then be returned, and the needed fields for an order would be automatically be filled in. ...