This week on C9: Oxite, Mona Lisa, Pool hacks, and Coding4Fun Gifts

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:11:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss:

- Oxite: The open source ASP.NET MVC Content Management System (Adam Kinney's interview with the team)
- Roger Alsing uses Genetic Program to shape 50 polygons into the Mona Lisa
- Justin Needham and Matthew Straub use Windows CE to build a system that can predict the path of pool balls using a Webcam, projector, and mirrors
- Brian explains why you should use Live Search Cashback for holiday shopping
- Dan and Brian go through their favorite picks from the Coding4Fun Holiday Gift Guide

Top Picks
- Pico LCD 4x20 Programmable Display (Code it) ($49)
- SideWinder Keyboard for Gamers ($61)
- SideWinder Mouse for Gamers ($45)
- USB MSN Missile Launcher ($50)
- USB Endoscope (Code it) ($59)
- XNA Creator's Club (Code it)($99/year)
- Nabaztag, aka Brian the Build Bunny (Code it) ($99 - $199)
- Zune (Code it) ($99 - $249)
- Energy Detective Monitor ($189)
- Rock Band 2 (Code it) ($189.99)
- WowWee Rovio (Code it)($239.99)
- Erector Spykee (Code it "soon") ($247)
- .NET Micro Framework (Code it) ($400)
- HP EX470 MediaSmart Home Server (Code it) (449.99)
- Brian's pick of the week: Dual monitors + Synergy software as a poor man's KVM
- Dan's pick of the week: Install Live Mesh at home, on all of your PCs, and on your family's PC

Tis the season for giving so we're giving away a copy of Dan's book: Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, World of Warcraft, YouTube, and More to the first person to correctly answer our This Week on Channel 9 trivia question asked at the end of the show.

Oxite, an ASP.NET MVC based blog

Adam Kinney — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:06:00 GMT

When ASP.NET MVC hit like Preview 3 or 4, quite a few of us were saying "We should get together and build new blog software based on MVC, it would be so fun!".

Well as good ideas go sometimes this one passed by the wayside due to lack of time available. Fortunately this is not true, when the Channel9 team had the same idea. They've build a new blog engine called Oxite based on ASP.NET MVC and their experience building sites like Ch9, Ch10, Ch8, Edge and especially MIX Online.

Check it out! Its a very nice feature set for an initial release and its a full working sample for learning ASP.NET MVC.

Congrats, MIX Online and Ch9 dev team!

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This week on C9: Oxite, Mona Lisa, Pool hacks, and Coding4Fun Gifts

Oxite, an ASP.NET MVC based blog