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		<title>MVVM and Speech using the Kinect-Pt. II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last post I talked about what I recently done with Speech recognition and tying it in with MVVM's concepts of Commands. In this post, I want to walkthrough, step by step of how I set things up.&#160; To get everything installed I just followed the directions for setting up the Kinect SDK, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2011/07/07/mvvm-and-speech-using-the-kinect-pt-ii/</link>
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		<title>MVVM and Speech using the Kinect&#8211;Pt. I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always been fascinated by interacting with a computer in ways beyond the traditional keyboard and mouse.&#160; The problem is, as I learned while getting my degree in computer science, some problems are really hard. I didn't want to dedicate years to obtaining PhD in computer vision or spend my life doing statistics. But, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2011/06/30/mvvm-and-speech-using-the-kinectpt-i/</link>
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		<title>Custom Markup Extension To Replace IValueConverter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something that's been around in WPF for a long time but is just seeing the light of day in the upcoming Silverlight 5 release is the concept of a custom MarkupExtension.&#160; For those unfamiliar with the concept, a MarkupExtension is anything within the curly braces "{}" of your xaml. Some examples include, Binding, Static- and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2011/04/18/custom-markup-extension-to-replace-ivalueconverter/</link>
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		<title>Switching Windows Versions &#8211; &#8220;Downgrading&#8221; to Enterprise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I recently bought a new laptop and asked the IT people at RBA about which version of Windows to install on it. They said it was all on our network so I went out and saw we had both Ultimate and Enterprise versions. Being a sucker for marketing gimmicks I grabbed the Ultimate version [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2011/01/20/switching-windows-versions/</link>
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		<title>Wii Remote Force Calculator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I've been doing a fun side project.  It's always fun when you can come up with an excuse to combine your hobbies or interests.   So I came up with the idea of using a Wii remote to calculate the force of a strike on a heavy bag. I've had to dredge up old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2010/08/11/wii-remote-force-calculator/</link>
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		<title>Uses for Silverlight reflection, pt. II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, as promised, here is the followup to what I was doing with Silverlight reflection that made me need access to Internal members of a class. Localization in Silverlight is still an interesting story and everybody seems to have their own way of doing it.  The client I'm on uses Excel spreadsheets that load into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2010/04/27/uses-for-silverlight-reflection-pt-ii/</link>
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		<title>Silverlight Reflection and internal members</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to use reflection in Silverlight you have to come to grips with the fact that you can only reflect on public members of the class.&#160; This is a very important part of the security features in Silverlight. However, I have a scenario that would be greatly helped by being able to reflect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2010/04/20/silverlight-reflection-and-internal-members/</link>
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		<title>Cradling Device Emulator on Windows 7 in VS 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been doing some Windows Mobile work again and keep getting an issue with the Windows Mobile Device Center and my emulator.&#160; Sometimes when I cradle the emulator it works just fine, other times it doesn't pick up the connection.&#160; It seemed rebooting fixd the problem, but I'm not gonna reboot everytime I cradle and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2010/04/02/cradling-device-emulator-on-windows-7-in-vs-2008/</link>
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		<title>Overlaying Controls in WPF with Adorners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the common things that comes up on multiple projects using WPF is the ability to overlay the screen or a certain portion of it.&#160; Either to create a richer modal-type experience than a message box provides or to block access to a certain portion of the screen while an asynchronous or long running [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2009/10/15/overlaying-controls-in-wpf-with-adorners/</link>
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		<title>Back in Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, it's been a few months. Been very busy, got married, closing on a house in November.&#160; Started a new project at work, for the government.&#160; Despite my repeated requests I have yet to receive a dark pair of sunglasses and handgun.&#160; I thought that they were standard issue for the project, oh well, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2009/10/15/back-in-business/</link>
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