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Clint Rutkas

 

What screams Halloween more than fake body parts? Fake body parts that twitch and are covered with blood. The second thing that screams Halloween is causing some mischief.

 

Black cats of Hardware

I got to say, I love Phidgets. They are relatively inexpensive USB items that...

Graphic novels (or as they used to say, 'comic books') have been hot collector items for years.  There are those of us who still get choked up when we think of the stacks of Fantastic Four, Superman, Spiderman, Silver Surfer, and other classic titles of our youth that got thrown in the trash only...

In case you haven't guessed already, we have some Sudoku fans here at Microsoft.  It's challenging, stimulating, and just plain fun.  Stephen Toub, the ".NET Matters" columnist for MSDN, has created a fantastic implementation of Sudoku in C# for the Touch Pack software...

Coding4Fun is a pretty popular site on MSDN.  But even we were surprised at how quickly people responded to it.  One clever prankster wrote in that he had taken the randomly opening CD tray idea and wrote a Windows service to fake out one of his co-workers.  Another programmer wrote...

It's here folks!  The First Annual April Fool's Day Special at Coding4Fun has gone live with code projects you can use to fool the unsuspecting and naive.  (Pause for maniacal laughter - Buh-wa-ha-ha-ha).  Want to make Word AutoCorrect have a mind of its own?  Want to frustrate...

This challenging game of correctly arranging numbers in non-repeating sequences in squares and columns is now found in just about every major newspaper, on hundreds of websites, and on PCs and personal media devices all over the world.  But as fun as it is, writing a computer program to automatically...

Do you like to use technology to have fun?  Do you like to build cool and useful projects?  Well then we have a contest that should be perfect for you! 

 

It begins with contestants submitting their cool ideas for projects built with Visual Studio Express and/or SQL Server Express,...

A new release of the code for the System Monitor Project in the Cool Applications section is now available.  The project was originally written using Beta 2 features that were modified when the final release version of .NET 2.0 was released.  The new code installs have been updated to be...

No doubt you have seen them - the websites that monitor and report on Xbox 360 inventory availability from dozens of retail outlets.  Well, Jarem Archer of http://untitlednet.com has shown the Coding4Fun spirit by using Visual C# 2.0 to build a truly cool application to monitor this information...

Kudos to Valentin Iliescu for his Valil.Chess game on Code Project written with Visual C# 2005 Express Edition. Valentin's work is appreciated by the coding community as evidenced by 1) a 4.85 out of 5.00 rating on Code Project (impressed much), 2) nearly 82,000 views, and 3) the November 2004...