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I'd never get lost if I had a search engineMar 12, 2007 at 2:43 PM
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Stephen Walters from SuperExpert has created an example website on using the Windows Live SDK. While a quick demo on how to use it, it shows how quickly and easily one can embed a search engine into their own site. One big thing to remember about non-asynchronous webservice calls is your page's… -
Programming For BeginnersMar 08, 2007 at 8:00 AM 0
Ok, you're new to programming? Don't fully understand Object-Oriented programming? Don't worry, Microsoft just launched the Beginner Developer Learning Center. They have 2 different tracks, web and windows development. Each track has 3 tiers. Tier 1 provides a foundation… -
A CueCat with webservices?Mar 07, 2007 at 6:06 PM 0
Scott Hanselman hacks up some more hardware, this time the CueCat to get more info about the books he is reading onto his blog. Scott decodes the barcode information, changes the UPC into ISBN, then call Amazon's Web Service via REST and finally wraps everything up into a Live Writer… -
Fight at the XNA jungle gym after school at 3!Mar 07, 2007 at 5:12 PM 0
Microsoft has sponsored a 4 day XNA game building contest at the Game Developer Conference. Joystiq has some excellent converage of the individual teams. So far Joystiq has posted articles about Final Stand, Abdux, Dungeon Quest, and Simian Escape. -
CSI? I can do that with my finger.Mar 06, 2007 at 4:05 PM 1
Scott Hanselman has created a Fingerprint Manager that interfaces with the Microsoft Fingerprint reader and the GrFinger SDK. Scott uses suprisingly an XML file to store the images in a byte array. While big and even bigger since it is converted to base64 converted, it is cool way to create… -
Chit-chatting with AJAXMar 04, 2007 at 5:45 AM 0
Tyler Schlegel has created a basic browser-based chat application using ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX. For those who don't know what ASP.NET AJAX is, it was formally known as Atlas and is Microsoft's framework to provide Ajax calls. It works on other frameworks such as PHP and ColdFusion.… -
Sir, stop touching our table pleaseMar 01, 2007 at 9:16 AM 0
Jeff Hans and Yann Lecon last year made a muli-touch screen application. A year later the guys over at Tinker.it created a touch screen too. With some plexiglass, 36 LED, and some other parts, they managed to recreate the the touch screen. They explain the principles behind it… -
A_ P.Ne_ HangmanFeb 26, 2007 at 6:30 AM 0
Like hangman? Stephen Walther did so much he created a ASP.Net control that uses embedded images, sounds, XML, and JavaScript. The JavaScript he wrote for the applicaiton is cross-browser compatible so FireFox and Opera can use it too. You can give the Hangman game a try over at his…
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I need a tasty beverage right nowFeb 26, 2007 at 4:07 AM 0
"What if instead of ME going to get the BEER, the BEER came to ME?". This is the question John W. Cornwell answered when he created what I will say is one of the neatest devices ever, a robotic beverage launching refrigerator. You can view a video of it off Metacafe…
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Mono now supports Visual BasicFeb 23, 2007 at 6:18 AM 1
The Mono Project just announced that it supports Visual Basic. Going over to their site, Mono 1.2.3.1 was just released too. Looks like Mono supports an almost complete API model for ASP.NET 2.0 now too.
