Halloween

WARNING: This video contains blood, gore and one extremely frightening software developer.   Have you spent countless nights up late writing code?  Have your eyes burned after staring at a monitor for 18 hours? Have you ever wanted to hack up a co-worker or two?  Sure, we all…

This is what happens when Laura and Tina get no sleep and Halloween is approaching.  What started off as a serious free downloads Halloween special has turned into a glimpse of something, well not so serious.  Yes, that's me as Clifford the Big Red Dog and Laura as Cat in the Hat.  We…

What are your Halloween traditions? See if they can compare to the SCARY people we found...

First thing's first, no one was reported injured when an explosive device detonated at the Ebay/PayPal HQ in San Jose last night. One window blew out into the night sky, but otherwise there were just a lot of rustled feathers of the two dozen employees shirking their trick or treat responsibilities…

October is the spookiest month of the year, fact. As the warmth of the season of mists and mellow fruitfulnesss is grasped by the ice-cold fingers of winter, the days become shorter, the nights longer and the earth spins slowly into the “dark half” of the year. That’s according to the Celts, who…

It's the best time of the year! Time for ghosts, goblins and hot stories from the land of Microsoft.On this episode of Ping, Laura & Paul bring you all the news...with as straight faces as possible, Office 365 is here! Ozzie Blogs! Rockin! Oprah knows best The dangers of re-tweeting  …

Windows Phone 7 is almost here and developers are working hard to get the #1 app in the marketplace. Journalists and reporters are scouring the internet to find the next big thing- the Windows Phone 7 Killer App. But that phrase takes on a whole new meaning around Halloween...be careful what…

This article describes a quick and easy application to play Halloween tricks on the PC. Introduction This article describes “Gremlin”, a quick and easy application that lets you play Halloween tricks. When your victim's computer is idle, Gremlin moves windows around on the screen, changes the…

In this application, Brian Peek demonstrates how to create two spooky Halloween applications to trick your friends and colleagues. Brian Peek ASPSOFT, Inc. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: Less than 1 hour Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions, DirectX SDK (for…

In this article I'll take you along for the ride as I attack the learning curve required to create a fun, interactive application using both the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Afterwards, you'll have a flexible trivia…