September 2007 - Posts

Look mom, I flushed with no hands!
29 September 07 11:35 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

I don't know about you but I know a few "lazy flushers." Will Gorman built and documented, in my opinion, the world's best use of Lego ever to solve this age old problem of the unflushed toilet. Will built a robot toilet flusher ! It uses the Lego sonar Read More...

?? not only a way to say I'm confused
27 September 07 10:54 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Scott Guthrie has a great post about question marks and LINQ. Well, actually, it is about the c# null coalescing operator, ?? . So what does the ?? operator do? It checks a value and if null, put in something different. Old way: string foo = arg[0]; if Read More...

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Popfly Metadata Generator
26 September 07 05:38 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

If you are doing block on Popfly. This App will help you generate Metadata for your block by just feeding the JS file. You can get more details on Popfly Metadata on Codeplex Read More...

Going Paperless
25 September 07 07:42 AM | Coding4Fun | 18 Comments   

Are you tired of battling piles of papers at home? From work, to your kid's school, to old bills and receipts, it can be too much to keep up with! In this article, learn about how to scan, crop, and set metadata for your documents. Arian Kulp Arian's Read More...

Filed under: utility, productivity, windows, hardware

Holiday Gift Guide 2007 Suggestions?
22 September 07 08:56 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Well folks, at Coding4Fun, we're attempting not to wait until the last possible second to buy our gifts for everyone and need your help. We need to prep for our yearly holiday guide and are asking for suggestions of items that should be in our Holiday Read More...

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But Mom, I want the Red .Net 2.0 Framework, not Blue 3.5 Framework!
20 September 07 08:49 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

So you are running Visual Studio 2008 but want to run the .Net 2.0 framework for your applications? Tough break, well, actually it isn't. Robin Fernandes shows how to set up Visual Studio 2008 to target a different framework than 3.5 (2.0 and 3.0). LukeH Read More...

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Silverlight 8-Ball
19 September 07 05:03 PM | Coding4Fun | 18 Comments   

In this article, I will discuss how I have built a 2 player 8-Ball game in Silverlight ( play here ). I will explain how I used the Expression tools to design the graphics and various .NET techniques to enable user control and game animation. Justin Petersen Read More...

Filed under: web miscellaneous, arcade, web, gaming

Spambots unite!
17 September 07 10:13 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

While not a solution for email, Phil Haack talks about a simple way to help prevent spam bots from attacking your forms on your web sites . By using an invisible captcha , one can defeat most bots. First, what is a Captcha? It is a challenge - response Read More...

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Build a robot contest
17 September 07 09:00 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Trossen Robotics wants to know what you are building. If you have a cool project that you've built it's time to make some money showing it off. What sort of projects can you submit you ask? Robotics, HCI, home automation, RFID, art projects, useful mods Read More...

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Art but in word form
13 September 07 07:27 PM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   

ASCII art has been around for ages but Matt has created a way to create to convert images into ASCII text for web pages . Matt explains how he does the color conversions and how he gets data from the image to text. One major thing he stresses is you must Read More...

Wrapping My "What am I doing?"
13 September 07 11:37 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Twitter is a "micro blog" asking the question, "What am I doing right now?" Their API model for developers is useful, but they guys over at Yedda made a wrapper object for the Twitter API ! Don't know C# but you're a rockstar at VB.Net? No worries since Read More...

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Gamefest 2007 XNA Presentations
10 September 07 08:27 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Dave Weller and the XNA team have posted the XNA presentations from Gamefest 2007 . A few of the presentations are: The costs of managed code I recommend this even if you're not interested in XNA. It will show you how to speed up code and what actually Read More...

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Silverlight 1.0 is released!
05 September 07 05:59 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Silverlight 1.0 has been released! For run-times, tools, and SDK links, go here and for some quick starts, go here , more importantly, the Silverlight 1.0 quickstart examples. In addition to just Silverlight, Microsoft has the Expression Blend tool to Read More...

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Are you a Using user?
04 September 07 11:37 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   

Over at Angry Coder, the talk about the "Using" block . This is something coders should use if possible since it helps do object cleanup for items like GDI+ (Graphics) and connections (streams, files, ...). It helps define when the object leaves scope Read More...

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