December 2007 - Posts

Facebook Contacts
28 December 07 09:35 PM | Coding4Fun | 9 Comments   

  By using the Facebook Developer Toolkit and the Bluetooth and Contacts APIs from the Coding4Fun Developer Toolkit, I created an application which transfers information about your Facebook friends to your mobile phone. Jon Schuster Clarity Consulting Read More...

It isn't a diary, it is a blog! It just has personal stuff in it.
27 December 07 12:06 AM | Coding4Fun | 8 Comments   

If you're like me, you may already have a blog, but if you've been wondering about getting one up and running, here are some open source blog engines. There are tons of open source engines but here are just a handful. If you have other great engines, Read More...

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Animated Musical Holiday Light Show - Version 2.0
23 December 07 02:25 PM | Coding4Fun | 27 Comments   

Create an animated holiday light show for indoor or outdoor use using some Phidget Interface Kits , extension cords, and .NET. Brian Peek ASPSOFT, Inc. Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 3-6 hours Cost: $100-$200 Software: Visual Basic or Visual Read More...

Filed under: windows, hardware, holiday

Winter Visualization for Windows Media Player in C++
20 December 07 02:52 PM | Coding4Fun | 19 Comments   

Ever wondered what's behind a visualization? This is your opportunity to learn something new because there are only a couple of Windows Media Player Visualizations that deliver source code. You'll learn to build a new visualization with Visual C++ 2005 Read More...

Filed under: media, holiday

Visual Basic 9 Hidden Gems.
17 December 07 12:50 PM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   

For those who make fun of Visual Basic, Amanda Silver may have something to show off to you. Over at the VB Team blog on MSDN, Amanda shows off 10 new features in Visual Basic . Two of my favorite are Syntax tool-tips (picture on the right, imagine that Read More...

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Interactive Display with WiiMote
13 December 07 01:58 PM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Johnny Chung Lee has some awesome applications he's done with the WiiMote . He has two examples, the coolest is making a low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboard while the other tracks your fingers and does a multi-point grid. His code uses Brian Peek's Read More...

I need glasses, everything is WPF blurred
11 December 07 08:29 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

I was at Fabio Pedrosa's blog and I noticed Fabio had a post on how to do WPF blurring and it was shockingly simple. Here is the code from his site to produce the image on the right. < Window x:Class =“ Blurred . Window1 ″ xmlns =“ http: // schemas Read More...

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A USB Turret Defense denerfed
08 December 07 12:41 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Over at Trossen Robotics Forums , I became aware of a sweet USB turret with the ability to track multiple targets. They built it using Phidgets (they are on our holiday gift guide ) and a few other parts. In addition to just servos, I found out via Trossen Read More...

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Holiday Gift Guide - 2007 edition
05 December 07 05:28 PM | Coding4Fun | 33 Comments   

If you're not sure what you need for this holiday season, look no further. After a year of coding and drinking soda in far too large quantities, the Coding4Fun team has released the 2007 Coding4Fun Holiday gift guide! Did we miss something? Comment or Read More...

Visual Studio video how-to's to help find x
03 December 07 10:16 AM | Coding4Fun | 6 Comments   

Feeling a bit lost with Visual Studio 2008 Express? Don't worry, we've got our crossing guard badges and created videos MSDN to help out! From the basic tours of creating your first application to using LINQ (pronounced link)! There will be more videos Read More...

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