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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Code Eater (Wael A. Kabli) : hardware</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/wael/archive/tags/hardware/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: hardware</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>want to have fun? take a break and write some code for fun :D</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/wael/archive/2007/09/06/want-to-have-fun-take-a-break-and-write-some-code-for-fun-d.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:15:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4790876</guid><dc:creator>Wael A. Kabli</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/wael/comments/4790876.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/wael/commentrss.aspx?PostID=4790876</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/wael/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=4790876</wfw:comment><description>&lt;P&gt;ok, i get it now, you are here either to tell me how geek am i or simply we are in the same ship :D,,,&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;anyways coding is fun no matter who says what,,&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;When i take a break, either i wirte code, watch sombody writing code or maybe reading about writing code ,,,&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;now there is a section in Microsoft as most of us we techies would prefere to call "Code 4 Fun" which actually can be real and serious stuff, but it is fun to play with,,&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;here is a site (blog) that do this in a periodic manner,&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;it is called: &lt;STRONG&gt;Coding 4 Fun&lt;/STRONG&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;to get started and see whats already there: &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/pages/1994662.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/pages/1994662.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;they have somthing like this:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Windows&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sdkintro/sdkintro/devdoc_platform_software_development_kit_start_page.asp" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sdkintro/sdkintro/devdoc_platform_software_development_kit_start_page.asp"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Windows Platform SDK&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebeta/" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebeta/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;.NET Framework 3.0 Beta SDK&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=234F5003-F24E-4EF5-B930-442EC57737D0&amp;amp;displaylang=en" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=234F5003-F24E-4EF5-B930-442EC57737D0&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Windows Vista Media Center SDK&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5E86EC97-40A7-453F-B0EE-6583171B4530&amp;amp;displaylang=en" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5E86EC97-40A7-453F-B0EE-6583171B4530&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Windows Speech SDK&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=000A16F5-D62B-4303-BB22-F0C0861BE25B&amp;amp;displaylang=en" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=000A16F5-D62B-4303-BB22-F0C0861BE25B&amp;amp;displaylang=en"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Windows Media Encoder 9 SDK&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;Windows Media Player - &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/media/en/vb/AudioPart2VB.wvx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/media/en/vb/AudioPart2VB.wvx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Video&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;A href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/1/e/41e8f2c1-1bf7-419f-b31b-06122d090a49/AudioPart2VB.msi" mce_href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/1/e/41e8f2c1-1bf7-419f-b31b-06122d090a49/AudioPart2VB.msi"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Project&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://developer.apple.com/sdk/itunescomsdk.html" mce_href="http://developer.apple.com/sdk/itunescomsdk.html"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Apple iTunes SDK&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://developer.aim.com/" mce_href="http://developer.aim.com/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;AOL Instant Messenger&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Web&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A class="" href="http://dev.live.com/" target=_blank mce_href="http://dev.live.com"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Windows Live Developer Center&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://developer.ebay.com/developercenter/windows/" mce_href="http://developer.ebay.com/developercenter/windows/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;eBay Developer Program&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.amazon.com/AWS-home-page-Money/b?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;node=3435361" mce_href="http://www.amazon.com/AWS-home-page-Money/b?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;node=3435361"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Amazon Web Services&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://developer.yahoo.com/dotnet/" mce_href="http://developer.yahoo.com/dotnet/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Yahoo .NET Developer Center&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.youtube.com/dev" mce_href="http://www.youtube.com/dev"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;YouTube Developer API&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.programmableweb.com/apis" mce_href="http://www.programmableweb.com/apis"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Programmable Web API List&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.xmethods.net/" mce_href="http://www.xmethods.net/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;XMethods.NET&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; - Web Service list 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A class="" href="http://www.weatherbug.com/api/" mce_href="http://www.weatherbug.com/api/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;WeatherBug API&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Gaming&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://msdn.com/xna" mce_href="http://msdn.com/xna"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;XNA Game Studio Express (Beta)&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://fsinsider.com/Community/Developers-Corner/About-the-SDK.htm" mce_href="http://fsinsider.com/Community/Developers-Corner/About-the-SDK.htm"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Flight Simulator X SDK&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Hardware&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://msdn.com/robotics/" mce_href="http://msdn.com/robotics/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Microsoft Robotics Studio&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.controlthink.com/zwavesdk.htm" mce_href="http://www.controlthink.com/zwavesdk.htm"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Z-Wave PC SDK&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.phidgets.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;amp;name=Downloads&amp;amp;file=index&amp;amp;req=viewdownload&amp;amp;cid=3" mce_href="http://www.phidgets.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;amp;name=Downloads&amp;amp;file=index&amp;amp;req=viewdownload&amp;amp;cid=3"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#35648c&gt;Phidgets SDK&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4790876" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/wael/archive/tags/Dev+Fun/default.aspx">Dev Fun</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/wael/archive/tags/Robotics/default.aspx">Robotics</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/wael/archive/tags/hardware/default.aspx">hardware</category></item></channel></rss>