August 2007 - Posts

Where am I? What am I doing?
31 August 07 03:17 PM | Coding4Fun | 5 Comments   

Do have a GPS receiver laying around? Do you travel? Do you blog? If you answered yes to these questions, you might be interested in this Windows Live Writer plugin. People who travel and like to blog about it can just click a button to insert their current Read More...

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Facebook Outlook Add-in
30 August 07 09:37 PM | Coding4Fun | 10 Comments   

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. Using the Facebook Developer Toolkit , you can combine the data stored on Facebook with contacts already stored in Outlook via a custom form Read More...

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27 August 07 01:32 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Andy Konkol demonstrates how to quickly code a working example for his 4u2see LED Matrix . What is an LED Matrix? I bet you've seen them around at randomly attempting to inform you about delays or what the soup of the day is. You've also seen them at Read More...

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See? My heart did flutter when I saw you
24 August 07 08:56 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Reza Naima over at UC Berkeley is in the process of creating a health monitor system that connects to a PocketPC device via Bluetooth to display its results . The system currently monitors seven different items from the person it is monitoring. ECG - Read More...

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Bluetooth ScreenLock
19 August 07 10:58 PM | Coding4Fun | 32 Comments   

Bluetooth ScreenLock is a sample application built on top of the Bluetooth managed wrappers that are included in the Coding4Fun Developer Toolkit. Jerry Brunning Clarity Consulting, Inc. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Read More...

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Outlook in Windows Home Server
17 August 07 04:21 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

In case you missed it, Brian Peek created a Windows Home Server add-in for that lets people view their Outlook email from a web browser . What is Windows Home Server ? It is a product that allows you to manage your household's data and computers. It also Read More...

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Playing people's dreams with XNA Game Studio
14 August 07 08:23 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

At XNA Gamefest conference, they announced the winners to Dream Build Play . There actually were two winners to the contest too, the Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and Blazing Birds. All 20 of the entries were playable, polished and extremely fun. Congratulations Read More...

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99 Problems but Developing shouldn't be 1
13 August 07 09:44 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Rich McIver told us about a list showing 99 sites a developer should know about to help aid in the always changing world of web development. On the list you'll see sites like W3C, blogs we've linked to in the past, items on Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Read More...

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We need your help!
12 August 07 09:36 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

We here at Coding4Fun are asking for user submissions for what we should write about and create. We have a ton of stuff planned but would like to get some feedback so we can accommodate your requests. Send over your requests over at the Email page . Read More...

Visual Studio Express 2008's new magic
10 August 07 07:28 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Dan Fernandez has created the first article in a series of five all about the new features in Visual Studio Express 2008 . In his first article, he talks about Auto-Implemented properties, inferred Data Types, array initializers, LINQ query, custom extension Read More...

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Outlook Webmail Add-in for Windows Home Server
10 August 07 04:33 AM | Coding4Fun | 26 Comments   

In this article, Brian Peek will demonstrate how to create an add-in for Windows Home Server that will allow users to view their Outlook mail from a web browser. Brian Peek ASPSOFT, Inc. Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 2 -3 hours Cost: Free Software: Read More...

Filed under: utility, productivity, web services, web miscellaneous, windows miscellaneous, windows, web

Harry Potter, where is your PoV wand?
06 August 07 11:02 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

I found out about a game that was done at Microsoft's Puzzle day involving everyone's favorite book, Harry Potter and his wand. All wand jokes aside, Nathan Pooley, appears to have created the wand and shows how to build a Harry Potter Point of View (PoV) Read More...

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Coding4Fun Developer 2008 Kit!
02 August 07 12:12 PM | Coding4Fun | 5 Comments   

Over at CodePlex , Coding4Fun has released the 2008 Developer Kit . What is included in this kit? Three different ways to use Bluetooth, easy ways to do emailing, power management examples, Windows Desktop Search, a P2P picture sharing example, a RSS Read More...

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