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Getting up to speed with accelerometers and NetduinoAug 26, 2011 at 6:00 AM
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We've hear of accelerometers a thousand times, but just what are they, really? How do they work? And more importantly from a Coding4Fun perspective, just how can we build cool devices and apps with them? Funny you should ask... How about a tutorial that talks about how accelerometers work, builds a… -
AgFx = Developing Data Driven Windows Phone 7 App JoyAug 29, 2011 at 6:00 AM 0
What are app's without data? Just about every app needs to read or write data. Mobile app's especially so. I mean, if it's not a game, and not a fart app, what mobile app doesn't need data (then again, most games have some sort of data element... and the best fart apps are cloud driven, socially… -
Caching + Messaging + Collections + Services + Communications + Diagnostics + UI Controls =…Aug 31, 2011 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's project is one where I've mentioned a piece of in a past post, but left a post on the entire thing for another time. Well, that time is now. Building a WP7.x app takes more than just building your business/app/game logic. There's all sort of infrastructure gunk that you have to build too.… -
Does programming your lawn sprinkler seem so much harder than it should be? Here's a…Sep 02, 2011 at 6:00 AM 1
I don't know about you, but it sometimes feels that programming my lawn sprinkler system is a lesson in futility and that I must be pretty stupid, because programming that thing can't really be that hard, can it? Also it bugs me that in our connected world, that these devices are so, well, dumb.… -
Adding full text indexing to your app is a hOOt!Sep 05, 2011 at 6:00 AM 4
Search. Everyone uses it all day, every day. The web's had it for forever in Net years and now we're growing to expect it just about everywhere else. So you're a dev and you want to build in full text indexing and searching into your app. But you don't want to build in a dependency on something… -
"Hello, Skype? It's me .Net... Can I record you?"Sep 07, 2011 at 6:00 AM 3
I don't know about you, but there's some I love about being a coder. It's when I see an existing application that I can extend, connect to, link with, improve. When I say to myself, "I really wish this app, could do X" and then realize I might be able to actually make the app do… -
Window Phone 7.5, ZXing and QR codesSep 09, 2011 at 6:00 AM 2
QR codes appear to be appearing everywhere. From outside our favorite restaurants, to magazines, TV shows to even using them to communicate between Windows Phone 7 devices and the XBox and Kinect (see story)! So how do we get this kind of magic into our apps? Jonas Follesø has got our back and… -
Adding some JPEG to your Netduino (as in serial camera)Sep 12, 2011 at 6:00 AM 1
Fabien Royer (aka. Mr. "Doing some really cool stuff with Netduino") takes us through adding a JPEG serial camera to a Netduino project. Think about some of the cool things you might be able to do if your Netduino project could take pictures. It adds a whole new dimension to what you… -
XNA Platformer, HTML5 StyleSep 14, 2011 at 6:00 AM 1
Today's project is a cool and fun example on the power of HTML5 and the canvas element. It shows how a game that was originally created in XNA, C# can be ported over to HTML5 and JavaScript. Yep, you read that right, a complete port of the game from XNA/C# to HTML5/JavaScript. Plus it's not just a… -
Windows Phone 7 and Azure, sitting in a tree... The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows PhoneSep 16, 2011 at 6:00 AM 0
Fun is focusing on building your app and not getting lost in infrastructure hell. Fun is building awesome apps that bring your data to your devices no matter where they are. Fun is letting Microsoft do some of the heavy lifting, while you code, code, code. Fun is getting started with the Windows…
