Beer IoT (need I say more?)
How can you NOT love a nine post series (so far) on Beer and IoT? There's IoT, devices, visualizations, math, formulas and beer!Gunnar Peipman as been blogging up a storm on his Beer IoT project....
View ArticleGame Templates, Construct 2
We're going to do a Game Theme week I think... Yeah, I think that sounds good, lets do it.Today we kick it off with a great post from Diego Lizarazo that highlights a ton of Construct 2 game templates...
View ArticleFile - New - MonoGame
Continuing with our Game Development Theme Week, we revisit one of our long term favorite game development platforms with this post from Dean Ellis.Build Your First Game with MonoGame: Getting...
View ArticleGameMaker your Pi!
To close out our Game Theme week, this post from Helen Lynn is a perfect ending and way to kill your entire weekend... :)Three great GameMaker games for Raspberry PiAs I began to type today’s blog...
View ArticleCoding4Fun February 2016 Round-Up
Something of a quite month, well except for the big news on Wednesday of course...Come on! You know! The Microsoft News Sphere exploded on Wednesday! Fine... this!I can't WAIT for the awesome stuff...
View ArticleRoslyn... Succinctly...
While I don't highlight ebooks all that often, when I saw Alessandro Del Sole's new free (reg-ware) ebook, I had to share it.Alessandro is fast becoming a Friend of the Blog and we highlighted a post...
View ArticleCreation Crate
I usually avoid highlighting commercial services here (though most of the devices I do usually highlight are commercial, so I'm not really sure the difference.... but you know what I mean). When Chris...
View ArticleProject Settings Sprawl Help with Project Configuration Manager
You've got a Visual Studio Solution where you've followed best practices and separated the layers and features. The problem is that now you have about a zillion Projects. And you want to see all the...
View ArticleHumanizer is alive and well and it's v2!
Two and a half years I highlighted a project that I thought was extremely cool and one that I've since used in a number of projects. This week I saw a post from Oren Novotny that let us know that not...
View ArticleHi Pi 3! Raspberry Pi 3 and the Windows 10 IoT Core
Last week the hot device/hardware/IoT news was the release of the Raspberry Pi 3.The big question is that does it support Windows 10 IoT Core? Billy Anders answers that below. Want more information?...
View ArticleVS Extensibility Samples, Extension Extension and more...
This week is going to be a Visual Studio Extension Theme Week and what better way to kick if off then to highlight a number of great resources for creating them!First a shout-out to Carlos Quintero of...
View ArticleTalk to Us about Visual Studio Extensibility
Our second post in our Visual Studio Extension Theme Week, is also our second shout-out to Carlos Quintero and a nice write-up on how you can give us some feedback about Visual Studio...
View ArticleConnect IoT to Azure IoT with Visual Studio Connected Service Extension
In our last Visual Studio Extension Theme Week post, how do we include not only VS Extensibility but also device/hardware/IoT?HA! We've got not one, but two posts to highlight!Introducing the Visual...
View ArticleThe Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools are now open source!
There's no question what the big Coding4Fun VS Extension Monday news is for this week, is there?I've been using the Power Tools for forever (since they were Power Toys ;) so now being able to see...
View ArticleMonoGame on the Xbox One? It's coming soon... (Yes, really)
If you've been following the blog for any length of time, you know MonoGame is an official "Favorite Project." We also know allot of you like to play with it too. But it's felt something like a dead...
View ArticleWindows 10 IoT, Raspberry Pi and your next Halloween Project
Today's Hardware Friday Project is one that will give you an early jump start for Halloween. Yes, Halloween. All to often, I find these projects right before or right after, i.e. to close to the...
View ArticleBuild Week!
It's Build week! Don't care since you couldn't make it? The great news for you is that you CAN still watch.We're going to live stream the keynotes and events and most (all?) the sessions will be...
View ArticleCoding4Fun First Quarter 2016 Round-Up
We started the quarter, and year, highlighting the return of the Coding4Fun Project and end it talking about Build... Now THAT's a quarter!Coding4Fun BlogCoding4Fun Projects are Back!Adding a modern...
View ArticleMaker? Hacker? HackerBoxes
Since learning about maker subscriptions when highlighting Creation Crate last month, I've kept my eyes open for similar services...HackerBoxes...Why HackerBoxes?From the very heart of the modern maker...
View ArticleReach out and touch... Visual Studio with TouchVS
With most new screens having touch, wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple extension to Visual Studio that let you reach out and touch it? What if I were to tell you there's not only one but that...
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