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Today's post is a quick one highlighting a great deal of free content presented at the 2013 Game Developer Conference Game Developer Conference 2013The Microsoft presentations at GDC 2013 are freely available from the GDC Vault. WindowsConquering the Galaxy with Phones and Tablets: Galactic Reign…

Okay, enough with app build and such for a bit. How about a tool and helps you build tools for your favorite tool? NuPatternWhat is NuPattern?NuPattern is the platform and tools that make it easy to create your own custom branded tooling in Visual Studio. Spend six minutes watching the following…

Come on, it's fricken lasers! DIY laser-shooting rangeThis is probably the first post on (hopefully) a series of ‘offtopic’ posts covering cool things I’ve done and consider worth sharing. It’s about a side project we did more than two years ago, while working on multitouch tables and IR…

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…

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…

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...…

Speaking of building Windows 8 app's, here's the template of the week. Imagine you Social Media Dashboard SampleThe Social Media Dashboard sample (for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8) consumes various social feeds and displays them in your app. It is driven from a JSON configuration file so it is very…

A few years ago, Brian Peek, created a light sequencing application phidgets to animate your holiday cheer and Don, a coding4fun reader, leveraged it to animate some lights of his own for this year! Awesome job Don and thanks for telling us about it!  Update:  Don has shared his sequence…

A NESL is a set of libraries for Silverlight developers that allow them to access some really cool features of Windows 7 from their Silverlight applications. Take advantage of sensors like accelerometers, light sensors, compasses, GPS etc. Access content from connected portable devices like…

We have just launched an all new series over on Channel9 that teaches beginning developers with little programming experience how to develop applications for Windows Phone 7.  This series assumes that they have absolutely no knowledge of C#, Silverlight, or mobile development.  In just…