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Dear friends,

As we start the new year, it's a great time to step back and review where we want to go with Coding4Fun, what kind of content we're passionate about, and most importantly, what we can do to inspire and enable everyone to get busy coding for fun themselves.

Our Team

We've expanded our team...

Last year the Coding4Fun/Channel 9 guys asked me to work on a few things for MIX10.  One of these items was a way to output a webcam stream to Windows Phone 7 for use with Clint's t-shirt cannon project you may have read about.  I figured the easiest way to accomplish this was by using a ...

For Visual Studio Live 2010 in Redmond, I was asked to help plan the attendee event for the conference.  We decided to recreate the game show Jeopardy and allow 3 teams of 3 people to play: Microsoft Employees vs. Visual Studio Live Speakers vs. Visual Studio Live Attendees.  To pull this...

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, Brian Peek chats with Josh Blake about Natural User Interfaces and Multitouch programming with .NET.  Josh has written a multitouch PowerPoint replacement called NaturalShow, which was demonstrated during his NUI session at MIX10. Watch and lear...

In this article, Brian Peek describes his PDC 2009 project, an XNA game named MindBlaster which uses a Nintendo Wii Remote in conjunction with MindSet brain-wave sensing headset from Neurosky.

Introduction

Back in July of 2009 I learned of Neurosky's MindSet device via Engadget.com.  The MindSet...

Update 10/16/10: The application + source have been updated to work with Twitter's OAuth/xAuth authentication scheme.  If you have the old version installed, please upgrade at the download links below.

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In this article, Brian Peek will take you through his latest Coding4Fun application, Twee...

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, Brian Peek interviews Jeremiah Morrill who has written WPF MediaKit, an amazing library to quickly build DirectShow and MediaFoundation media player controls in WPF.  It's amazingly powerful and, as a developer, can be used with just a few lines of ...

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, Brian Peek interviews Rick Barraza of Cynergy Systems, who has put together several very unique applications and accompanying tutorials demonstrating advanced rendering techniques using Silverlight 3.  During the show, we discuss Silverlight 3, U...

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, I interview Arian Kulp, creator of the MEF Utility Runner, a unified host for system tray utility applications.  Learn a bit about MEF and how it can be leveraged to create a plugin architecture for any application, as well as how it was used to creat...

The Coding4Fun Show is a new series dedicated to interviewing people creating fun and interesting projects with a bit of "how to" mixed in.

In this first episode, I interview Andy Beaulieu, creator of the Physics Helper for Silverlight, Blend, and Farseer.  Learn a bit about ...