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"Bitcoin + Azure + Traffic Light"17 hours ago
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Chris Walker, Friend of the Community and Blog, hardware geek extraordinaire, Matt Cavanagh bring us Build 2014: Bitcoin + Azure + Traffic LightFor Microsoft Build 2014, the Internet of Things team at Microsoft put together a very cool Netduino-powered traffic light. Here's what it looks… -
WebGL to Windows 82 days ago 0
Today's project from Lee Stott and David Cathue combines Web and Windows making this a WWW kind of day (Web and Windows Wednesday). While we've highlighted WebGL before; BabylonJS + WebGL + Bing + Maps + 3D = BabylonBingKinect Fusion powered 3D with WebGL, BabylonJSPlaying in the… -
The future of .NET, today. The .NET Compiler Platform4 days ago 0
I think today's project might be the ultimate Visual Studio extension. Welcome to the future... .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") (https://roslyn.codeplex.com/)Traditionally, compilers are black boxes -- source code goes in one end, magic happens in the middle, and object files or… -
Micro-JSON - a JSON parser for the .Net Micro FrameworkApr 11, 2014 at 6:00 AM 2
Today's Hardware Friday project is from Mario Vernari who shows us how we can build a JSON parser that lives happily on a Netduino device. If you're Micro Framework app is talking to a JSON end point (and what isn't these days?) this project might come in real handy. Micro-JSON for Netduino (and… -
Image Resizer for Windows Explorer Shell ExtensionApr 09, 2014 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's Windows Wednesday project is one that's a couple years old, but is a great tool for anyone who does any image/photo resizing (say like someone writing for a Coding4Fun blog ;) This project by Brice Lambson is a Windows Explorer shell extension that besides what is does also provides a nice… -
Giving Visual Studio a little perspective, with an Eclipse like Perspectives extensionApr 07, 2014 at 6:00 AM 0
Are you tired of our Visual Studio Extension Monday's yet? No? Good! Because I've got another one for you! MUhahahahaha... (Sorry, last week was a long week... ;) Today Adam Driscoll shares a different view in managing, well, Visual Studio views, with his window management extension, Perspectives… -
"The Urban Garden - Adventures in Automated Indoor Gardening"Apr 04, 2014 at 6:00 AM 0
What was that you forgot? Let's see, while you were away at Build or glued to the live streams, there was something you were supposed to do... hum... what was it...? Something green... oh, oh. Plants. You forgot to water your plants! Today's Hardware Friday post might help you next time that… -
It's Build Day! In honor, here's a tip to script Visual Studio with PowerShellApr 02, 2014 at 6:00 AM 2
In a couple hours, Build 2014 will kick off. Everyone is focused, rightly so, on the keynotes and sessions, which you can catch here, http://channel9.msdn.com. here http://www.buildwindows.com/ and finally http://channel9.msdn.com/events/build/2014, so today, in honor of the many presenters, I'm… -
Coding4Fun First Quarter 2014 Round-UpMar 31, 2014 at 6:00 AM 0
It's been three months already? Wow, seems like the year is just flying by. Anyway, here's the first Coding4Fun Quarterly round-up. Since you and I are figuring this out as we go, I wasn't sure if I should break out March's posts, or just assume you'd catch them in the combined list. To be on the… -
IoT Thermal Printer, all with a little Py and PiMar 28, 2014 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's Hardware Friday has I think zero Microsoft technology in it. No Netduino, no .Net, no C#, nothing. But I thought it was really cool and well, sometimes we really need to look outside of our little Microsoft box anyway, right? Especially when it lets us build cool IoT gadgets... :) Wade…
