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Announcing the release of the first "WPF/E" CTPDec 05, 2006 at 7:26 AM
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No clue what "WPF/E" is? Scott Guthrie goes on to explain, "It is a small client runtime that enables AJAX developers and designers to deliver richer, cross-platform, interactive web experiences. It will allow applications to go beyond what can be done with pure… -
I'm so good, I'll win with one hand behind my backDec 04, 2006 at 9:22 AM 0
Via Hackaday, Ben Heck modified his xbox 360 wireless controller to be one handed. The right thumbstick has been actually moved to the back of the controller along with new buttons added for the XYAB buttons. Took him three revisions to complete with the final version even includes… -
LEGO of My EggoDec 01, 2006 at 4:42 PM 0
Tyler Whitney has written an article on programming LEGO Mindstorm using the My namespace robots for Coding 4 Fun. What is the My namespace? It is a new feature in Visual Basic 2005 that helps put commonly used functionality at your fingertips. Tyler has provided a very… -
Finally a good use for floppy drivesDec 01, 2006 at 6:25 AM 0
I noticed on Scott Hanselman's blog about Ashish Derhgawen building a camera panner using a floppy drive. There are two YouTube videos that show the panner in action and I have to admit, it is pretty cool. Ashish's entire blog has a ton of neat hardware entries such as motion… -
Seriously, I'm working with Excel, Tetris just happened to be there ...Nov 30, 2006 at 5:45 AM 0
Who says business software can't be fun? Wooseok Seo created a port of Tetris in Excel of all things. Frank La Vigne found this peice of gold which dates back from March 2004. By leveraging Visual Studio Tools for Office System, he added Tetris in Excel. He… -
AJAX just wants to chat with you.Nov 27, 2006 at 6:08 AM 0
Dahan Abdo created a AJAX based chat room in ASP over at Code Project. Dahan example has administrative functions and login validation to prevent the same nickname from logging in. In his example, he limits it to one chat room per website (or virtual directory), however, lets see if… -
Coding4Fun 2005 Holiday Gift GuideNov 22, 2006 at 6:22 PM 3
December 2, 2005 About two months ago Dan Fernandez called me into his office and said, "You need to put together a Coding4Fun Holiday Guide." Okay. While not entirely sure what that meant I figured it would at least involve some sort of gift wish list and some project ideas for the… -
I need a sailor's knot for this string concatenationNov 22, 2006 at 5:50 AM 1
Phil Haack wrote an entry regarding concatenating delimited strings together. He goes on an shows different approaches on how to create a delimiting function along with some of his commets too. Phil goes on to mention .Net 2.0 has a string.Join method while .Net 1.1 does not. If… -
Is it done yet? No ... Is it done yet? No ...Nov 21, 2006 at 7:29 AM 0
If your project is a bit long and has a complex deployment, you may have some way of notifying your team that your build succeeded or failed. Mike Swanson has two methods, one orbital and the other is his laptop. He has hacked an Ambient Orb and his Dell XPS Laptop to visual alert him to… -
Flying Toasters means it is doing more, right?Nov 20, 2006 at 12:30 PM 0
Via Make, Photozz decided to make his peripherals turn off when his screen saver goes on. He created this with some solid state relays he got off Ebay that he had left over from his Christmas project. He is using software that works off the Printer pins created by Neil Fraser which…
