There's nothing basic about Lego Mindstorm EV3 Basic
Let's take two of our favorite teach, and just all around fun, tools, Lego Mindstorm EV3 and Small Basic and combine them into one awesome project!Ed Price shares EV3 Basic!Lego Mindstorms EV3...
View ArticleVS Code Beta, OSS, Extensions and more
Last week was a very exciting week. The Connect(); //2015 event was held and about a million things were shown and announced. Some of the cooler announcements revolved around VS Codev0.10.1 (November -...
View ArticleTraining the Trainer, the Windows 10 Dev Workshop
Sometimes the best way to learn a subject is to teach it. Yet teaching can be hard, developing the course and resources can take a great deal of effort. Adding in a new technology is a difficulty...
View ArticleOfficial Raspberry Pi Projects Book
It's the Thanksgiving Holiday here in the States. Yesterday we feasted, spending time with family and friends.Today, many have the day off.And we're already looking for something to do... ;)Well, Rob...
View ArticleCoding4Fun November 2015 Round-Up
In the last Round-Up I mentioned there might more theme weeks? Being a MVP I couldn't pass up having a MVP Theme Week. I'll leave it to you to find the posts... :)Hard to believe that the next Round-Up...
View ArticleDreamSparking a HTML5/JS Game From Start to Finish
Looking for something to keep you or the kids busy for the coming Winter break?Today's Web Wednesday post, from Friend of the Blog Lee Stott, is what has to be a record length blog post (27 pages...
View ArticleWindows 10 IoT Core Breathalyzer
Today's Hardware Friday project from Paul DeCarlo seems to be custom made for the Holiday season, doesn't?Windows 10 IoT Core BreathalyzerBackground:Windows 10 IoT Core was created to build powerful...
View ArticleA Raspberry PI 2, Azure Service Bus and Microsoft Band walk into a...
We finish up our "OMG, I want one of those..." Hardware Event Theme Week, with not one or two posts, but six posts from Joost van Schaik.Yes, it's another Microsoft Band project, but it's also a...
View ArticleHello Code, VS Code 0.9.1 that is...
Another week, another theme... :)With the recent VS Code update, VS Code v0.9.1 (October 2015), I'm going to make it a VS Code Theme week.Today it's an overview of this update and recent changes....
View ArticleKnow your Node.js (and VS Code)
Continuing with our VS Code Theme, today I've got three items for you (well, one, okay, kind of three, or whatever... )Node.js Applications with VS CodeNode.js is a platform for building fast and...
View ArticleThere's an Arduino in your VS Code...
The final post for the VS Code Theme week comes from the man, the myth, the legend in his own mind :) Fabien Royer.Given it's Hardware Friday and VS Code week, how can we mesh these two together?Maybe...
View ArticleUnknown File Type? Visual Studio Suggestion Extension...
There you are, opening a new open source project and there's a file in the project that you can't edit or that the edit experience isn't great.Then you remember, "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to install an...
View ArticleSimulations, Emulators, Virtual Reality and Small Basic v1.2
There's some great news for Small Basic. Not only are there a ton of great projects being created, but there's a re new version out too!Small Basic 1.2 - Release NotesDownload Small Basic 1.2You can...
View ArticleCoding4Fun October 2015 Round-Up
We had a number of themes this past month, which was kind of fun. Windows 10, Windows Devices and VS Code (and this week might as well have been a Small Basic theme ;)More themes in the future? Hum......
View ArticleAppVeyor via Visual Studio [Extension]
It's Microsoft MVP Global Summit week! 1,900'ish MVP's, including yours truly, are descending on the Microsoft Campus to connect with the Product Groups, peers and get a behind-the-scenes (i.e. NDA,...
View ArticleTypeScript and You
Continuing with our Microsoft MVP Theme Week, today we're highlighting a great post from Michael Crump that will help you get started with the new shiny that is TypeScript...TypeScript with Visual...
View Article"All your device are belong to us"
In the last post of our Microsoft MVP Theme week, as all the MVP's start making their way home after a great, but brain filling week, we highlight Bryn Lewis, Microsoft MVP Embedded and awesome IoT...
View ArticleCheating your way to VS 2015 Shortcut Cheatsheats
I can't believe I've never blogged about this project from Mads Kristensen. I spend a good 30+ minutes going through all my post resources, looking for past posts on this. Yet nothing. What was I...
View ArticleMads Mad Web Extension Pack
In our second mini-Mads Kristensen week, today you get one project + eight!Mads has taken some of the web dev extensions he feels are must-haves and bundled them into a single Web Extension...
View Article"Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the..." Smart Mirror!
Funny how some of the coolest projects come my way. Today project by Evan Cohen came via a "first time poster" on an internal Microsoft Distribution List, that happened to be subscribed to by a Channel...
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