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Andy and Okra is your Windows 8 App Store MVVM app building supercharger...22 hours ago
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Today's Modern Monday project by Andrew Wilkinson is one of those kinds of projects that makes me love developers. Imagine this... Building Windows 8 MVVM app... Gaa, don't like the available templates, but good enough to start with. hack, hack, hack. Building second app. Ahh, templates again...… -
Mouse with your mind...3 days ago 0
Recently on the Coding4Fun Kinect Gallery I highlighted a couple Kinect -> Mouse projects, Is that a mouse on your face? Or your face acting as a mouse? Both? FaceMouse, KinectMouse. And while I don't usually highlight commercial, non-source available projects I thought this pretty cool. But what… -
NUIverse - Reach out and touch...5 days ago 0
I don't normally blog about projects that don't have source, but this project from Dr. Dave is just cool so I'm making an exception. Plus since it has an extensibility model, I guess that makes it code'able? Kind of? Anyway, it's cool and it's fun... What? NUIverseNUIverse is an application, written… -
Ludus Windows 8 Game Starter Kit - Pleasing the Platformer in you...May 13, 2013 at 6:00 AM 5
Todays' project by Christer Kaitila is a kit that will help you quickly and easily build Windows 8 Platform games. Almost painfully easy to create games... If you've ever wanted to create your own platform game, and you've got a weekend, this kit is just for you... Windows 8 Platformer Game Starter… -
Knock, knock... Building an Arduino Door Entry AlarmMay 10, 2013 at 6:00 AM 0
It's time for a little hardware hacking (in a good sense). No plug and play here, we're talking breadboards, wires, Arduino and some coding Okay, maybe this isn't "hacking" nor all the hardcore [at all] but for a non-circuit guy like me, it is... Arduino Fun – Door Entry AlarmPhysical… -
Digging into your code with the free Microsoft Code Digger and the power of PexMay 08, 2013 at 6:00 AM 1
Have Visual Studio 2012? Building Portable Libraries? Wonder what all the weird and wild code paths your code might have, but it hurts your brain to try to write every possible path in your unit tests? Want a free extension that throws everything at your code, but the kitchen sink? (though I think… -
Getting in touch with TouchDevelop (Think "From What to Wow")May 06, 2013 at 6:00 AM 0
David Renton, Friend of the Coding4Fun Kinect Gallery, has expanded his efforts to showing off the power of, and helping us learn, TouchDevelop. TouchDevelop has been highlighted before, Develop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone... TouchDevelop, yet this time, David's hours of videos and pages… -
"Here comes the sun..." with Solar TrackerMay 03, 2013 at 6:00 AM 0
Well it's Solar Time again! Yep, it's been like, what, days since I've done a solar or energy related project? Well enough of that! Today's Hardware Friday by Graham Ross might seem simple, but is one that I think you can adapt for anything number of cool hardware projects... Solar TrackerProject… -
Visual Studio Data (Set, Table, Row, View, RowView, RowViewCollection) VisualizerMay 01, 2013 at 6:00 AM 2
Today's "I don't know what to call it" Wednesday project is one that's just a little different, not a game or anything, but something I've not seen mentioned too much recently. Visual Studio has these cool things to help you in your debugging, called Visualizers. They help you see beyond… -
You can lead a dev to... "Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 with leaderboard in Windows Azure"Apr 29, 2013 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's Modern Monday project is by Petri Wilhelmsen and takes you by the hand and walks you through creating a new Windows Store App game that leverages Azure Game Starterkit for Windows 8 with leaderboard in Windows AzureThis Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 contains what you need to get started…
