November 2007 - Posts

Rubik's Cubes? Lets upgrade to Cube21 sided solvers
28 November 07 08:39 AM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   
I couldn't solve the easy version of the Rubik's cube, maybe with a hammer I'll be able to solve the Cube21 sided version. Pavel Šavara however solved the Cube21 programmatically with C++, CLI, WPF, SQL, WCF, and ASP + Ajax. Pavel goes into some detail Read More...
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Webcam connection source code
23 November 07 01:22 PM | Coding4Fun | 7 Comments   
I got a webcam for doing conferencing at work and wanted to do some development with it. I had the problem of the sample source code I would try out didn't work. These were examples using WIA. THEN I found Mark Schmidt's awesome vista gadget using a webcam Read More...
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Visual Studio 2008 is released and much more
19 November 07 02:39 PM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   
I know everyone has been playing with the beta of Visual Studio 2008 but you don't have to any longer! Visual Studio 2008 Express flavors have been released into the wild for everyone to enjoy. Visual Basic Express Edition – productivity tool for first Read More...
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I want my 3D engine right now guys, gosh
19 November 07 01:47 PM | Coding4Fun | 7 Comments   
If you're an XNA developer that has been looking for a quick way to develop a 3D engine, look no further than the QuickStart Engine . The community designed it to help a programmer create a 3D game in XNA Game Studio as quickly as possible. It can be Read More...
Have you gone past the edge?
16 November 07 10:07 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Chesnokov Yuriy has a demo on edge detection in images with a wavelet transform . The code is written in C++ and is a very interesting read. He has other image processing articles on Coding Project too. Read More...
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Imagine Cup 2008 - Paris
16 November 07 09:19 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   
Have you ever wanted to change the world and beat some of the best teams across the world while doing it? If you answered "YES!" then the Imagine Cup is the place for you. What is the Imagine Cup? The Imagine Cup is a world-wide student technology competition Read More...
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Tricking out your Windows Home Server
15 November 07 08:07 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Chris Gray had done a video for Channel 9 on developing and customizing Windows Home Server . The source code examples he showed off can be found at the Channel 9 SandBox also . What is even neater about some of the newer stuff WHS will be releasing soon Read More...
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The quick brown fox jumped into my Ajax'ed text editor
12 November 07 08:26 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Kanan Sundarajan has written a Rich Text Editor and has shared it on CodePlex . For additional screenshots and a deeper highlight of features, check out Kirti's blog . Kanan also has a live demo . Anyone else out there have a RTE they've written? Via Read More...
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Activity Monitor
08 November 07 10:18 AM | Coding4Fun | 9 Comments   
Have you ever wondered how much you work in a day? You might keep track of when you start and stop, but do you really keep track of every interruption? In this article, learn about how to keep track of user activity and see how to build a component to Read More...
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Why does the installer boot the program?
07 November 07 10:15 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
If you're like me, you didn't actually give the user an installer, just the executable. A while back, I created a small program that did a staggered application start up for stuff in your startup folder . The Delayed Startup Application was pretty simple Read More...
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Super Mario's Theme song, in Tesla Minor
06 November 07 09:02 AM | Coding4Fun | 7 Comments   
First off, I never knew this was even possible, but I'm utterly in awe of how cool this is. Super Mario Brother's theme song though the sparks of two tesla coils! Each coil is assigned a midi channel and both coils are controlled through a fiber optic Read More...
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Beginning Game Development Part IX –Direct Sound Part II
02 November 07 07:40 PM | Coding4Fun | 7 Comments   
  Welcome to the ninth article on beginning game development. In the last article we added sounds to the game using the DirectSound namespace using devices, 3D Buffers, and 3D Listeners. Now we are going to further manipulate the sounds using the Read More...
Creating Blocks on Poplfy.com
02 November 07 06:26 PM | Coding4Fun | 6 Comments   
This article is going to be more or less a tutorial on how to create a block in Popfly. This block will dynamically stream XML data from an external site and then render it. Having said that, what are we setting out to create? Well, our end goal in this Read More...
Computer Controlled Stepper Motor
02 November 07 05:29 PM | Coding4Fun | 31 Comments   
In this article, we will connect a stepper motor to our computer's parallel port, and then we will write some code to control it with the scroll wheel on a mouse ( video ). If you have never worked with stepper motors, you will surely have a lot of fun Read More...
Shuffling that Playlist
01 November 07 08:43 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   
Matt Gertz over at the Visual Basic Team talks about his big problem with shuffling music and starts on how to solve it . Matt's problem (and mine) is when you have your music on shuffle, the transitions could be too jarring. In this installment, he shows Read More...
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