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An introduction to Unity3D - A 30 minute getting started guideMay 23, 2012 at 6:00 AM
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A number of times I've mentioned Unity3D, usually with the assumption that you all knew what it was, how to get it and how to use it. Well you know what they say about when you "assume" something... That's why today's post caught my eye. It's not "code" per-se (though there… -
Devphone Toolkit v2 - Pickers, MessageBoxes, Controls and more for Windows Phone 7.1(5)Jul 02, 2012 at 6:00 AM 1
Todays' Mobile Monday project is a Windows Phone toolkit that I've just recently found, has just released a v2 and provides many nice touches, such as a very complete sample app, baked in support for MVVM and more... Devphone ToolkitDevphone toolkit is a collection of Windows phone Controls and… -
DrawingBoard2 - A .Net GDI+ drawing componentJun 20, 2012 at 6:00 AM 3
The second project in our Diagraming week is one that I've wanted to highlight for a while. Imagine you need a diagramming, or drawing board, component in your app, kind of like a mini-Visio. Yet you also want to extend it, add to it (i.e. you want the source). You want something that is vector… -
Etch-A-Netduino Go - Creating an Etch A Sketch with the .Net Micro Framework and the Netduino GoJun 22, 2012 at 6:00 AM 0
The final project in our Diagramming week is a stretch. Yet it's a "diagramming/drawing" project that might of been our first introduction to it. This project takes a fun toy we played with (cough... or still play with... cough...) and brings it into our hardware building, Netduino… -
A clear example of a gesture driven Windows Phone applicationJun 25, 2012 at 6:00 AM 2
With last week's announcement of Windows 8 (which you can now catch on-demand here, Windows Phone Summit), it feels like a Mobile Monday kind of day. With touch devices, like the Windows Phone, it's important that we take advantage of gestures, making them a integral part of our applications. You're… -
"Space, the final code frontier..." with the General Mission Analysis Tool from open.NASAJun 27, 2012 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's Wild Wednesday project is an open source project governed by NASA, via open.NASA. This is a large open source C++ project that lets you run your own space missions, how cool is that? We're talking real space missions, not a game or like, but real, well simulated real, missions. GMAT… -
Michael makes a beeline to some Mayhem with the .Net Gadgeteer and XBeeJun 29, 2012 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's Hardware Friday post is an example of how we can make mesh our software and hardware worlds, all the while taking advantage of plug-and-play like features. Michael Dodaro, friend of the blog shows us how we take the Plug-and-play features of Mayhem and hook them up to the plug-and-play… -
Portable is as portable does... Maximizing code reuse via the magic of the Portable Class LibraryAug 20, 2012 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's Modern UI Monday project and post from Alnur Ismail provides some great guidance and information on to increase your code's portability across many of the Microsoft development platforms. With the number of platforms growing, the more code we can reuse, via a binary library, the better,… -
Torquing it up with TORCS, The Open Racing Car SimulatorAug 22, 2012 at 6:00 AM 0
Todays wild Wednesday project comes to us via David Bolton's The Next Best thing to Racing post. Racing, who doesn't like racing (or at least the thought of racing)? Yet, that's just not something the average guy and girl gets to do very often. So what's the next best thing? Racing Sim's of course!… -
.Net Micro Framework v4.2 now available for NetduinoAug 24, 2012 at 6:00 AM 0
We're going to do a two-fer today. Our first Hardware Friday post is a quick notice from Chris Walker about one of the blog's favorite frameworks, the .Net Micro Framework, on one of the blog's favorite hardware platforms, the Netduino... Announcing: .NET MF 4.2 upgrade for all Netduino hardwareI'm…
