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I've had some pretty awesome co-workers in my time, so no doubt I keep in touch (or at least stalk them a little on Facebook and be glad when they are doing well).

This past year and a half have been a little busy for me.

Codebass Radio is "Where Geek and Music Combine".

Hey everyone!

Gah!

I've been working more and more with Polymer lately and trying to establish some workflows that make sense.

Polymer has been on my mind for a while.

In a couple days, I'll be giving the first stop on my "Creative Node.js" presentation tour!

The last thing the internet needs is another jerk writing about Google Glass - yet here we are.

Yup, I'm pretty exhausted now because this weekend I attended Hackfit San Francisco.

Dire straits are ahead for 3D sensing.

I've been using Ubuntu as my development environment for around 2 years now.

Anyone who's met me over the past year knows that I've been giddy over 3D sensing...you know - like the Kinect.

I've been having some fun with maps lately.

I've been working on my project called "SharkAttack" for awhile.

So, I'm writing this blog post because, despite how simple a concept the "Supervisor" is - I feel like I could have easily missed this super handy tool.

I'm on a race to get some blogging done before my lovely wife and I embark on a weeklong car trip to move to California.

I finally got myself a Leap Motion!

Look man, I just want to use Grunt.

Yah, I mean it...I can't go and you suck for being awesome.

Macrodopache Flex.

This is actually a pretty simple concept - but it might not be intuitive for everyday web applications.

Oh good, someone already posted the "dripping with love" review of JSConf and organizers Chris and Laura Williams: http://adambrault.com/post/52004360603/just-a-person I'm so glad that's out of the way because I really didn't want to do it.

Admittedly, I've been quiet lately...too quiet.

Well that's a little bit of an awkward title - its not ONLY my first Node.js plugin I've released on NPM but it ALSO does 3D motion sensing!

Ooooog.

A while back, when Chrome 25 was still unreleased, I tried out the beta version.

I actually haven't used jQuery UI much, and been just tooling around with AngularJS.

I jump around in technology like nobody's business.

I'm trying to avoid internet negativity at all costs lately.

As anybody who's stopped by my blog over the last few months knows, I've been experimenting a lot with depth cameras like the Kinect and making it work as a plugin in Node.js.

The following article came across my G+ feed today: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/the-future-of-javascript/ Basically, the article's headline indicates a major throwdown is ahead of us.

Yep, another book review!

Holy jumpin' gestures, Batman!

I don't normally do book reviews, but I just happened to be working on an Android app and trying to build up my UI skills on the platform, when a Packt Publishing representative reached out to me to offer a free book in exchange for an honest review.

Well, well, well....

Sometimes technology can be so exciting, but then turn out so....meh.

I actually really do enjoy Android development - it's pretty smooth.

I hate to do things twice, but sometimes it just needs to be done twice, three times, or more.

Guys and gals, I'm incredibly honored to be among the select group of folks speaking at not one, but TWO conferences in May.

Back in December, I started playing with OpenNI.

Update for May 2016: Please note that this article is now 2 1/2 years old and was done with Node v0.8.

Blastanova aims to be the new independent music discovery method.

Codebass Radio is "Where Geek and Music Combine".

I work at a great little (getting bigger, so I don't know I can even say that anymore) startup called Digitalsmiths in Downtown Durham, NC at the American Tobacco Campus.

Refresh the Triangle is the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill chapter of Refreshing Cities.

RTE is a tech related talk show on Codebass Radio hosted by Adrian Pomilio, Dustin Graham, and yours truly.

The SharkAttack (yeah!)

How often do we get into "The Great OS Debate" with our colleagues and friends?

I've been digging on the Kinect for a little while now.