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2016 15

  1. The Citizen Scientist blog site has been moved!
  2. snapLogic, an easy way to connect to data in any cloud!
  3. What does it cost to get a gram of mass to stationary Mars Orbit?
  4. Azure in Space: What would a cloud system look like on Mars?
  5. //Build 2016 Skype Reaction: This is a tool for innovators
  6. Links for Intel-Microsoft Collaboration in Phoenix
  7. Build 2016: Power BI embedded reaction!
  8. Visual Studio: C and C++ command line complile, 2 of 8
  9. Visual Studio: C and C++, part 1 of 8
  10. Intel Edison: Collaborating with Intel
  11. Academy Awards: Open Source Sci-Tech
  12. Using the Live Writer Community Version
  13. JTEAM: Java, TomCat, Eclipse, Azure and MySQL
  14. Java and MySQL
  15. IOT: Getting started with Java

2015 62

  1. Visual Studio 2015 not presenting the XAML design pane
  2. IOT: An interesting video that I watched about the Raspberry Pi 2
  3. Hour of Code: fun and quiet time for the mature child
  4. IOT: It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States
  5. IOT: Add two blue LEDs to make a haunted house more scary
  6. IOT: Using the Arduino Tones to add the haunt to a haunted house
  7. IOT: Exploring the mysteries of HC-05 programming
  8. Microsoft Flagship Store opens in Manhattan!
  9. IOT: Building a Medical Device
  10. IOT: Arduino or Particle Photon?
  11. IOT: Arduino Nano working with the Windows 10 Virtual Shield
  12. IOT: Arduino Micro with Windows 10 Virtual Shield
  13. IOT: Controlling Device Access, security through obscurity no longer an option
  14. IOT & SDL: Securing Windows 10 IOT at the Requirements level
  15. Windows 10 IOT: Windows Forms to XAML/C# & Webservices
  16. Azure & Dreamspark: Getting started with Git
  17. Azure & Dreamspark: Explore the Console in your Azure Web App/Site
  18. Azure: Using Dreamspark Azure & Free tools to build your design team!
  19. Azure: Post a PHP app and MySQL database to Azure!
  20. Azure: Quick and Easy way to create a Dreamspark Web App and MySQL, using the Azure Marketplace
  21. Azure and Dreamspark: Connecting your WebApp to your MySQL database
  22. An interview with a MoodWire CPO about Social Media
  23. WPF project that uses MySql
  24. Azure: Visual Studio 2013 connection to MySQL
  25. Azure: Using C# to connect to a locally hosted MySQL Database
  26. Azure: ARRAffinity makes affinity cookies!
  27. Azure: Links on how to work with SQL Express and Azure using VS 2015 on Windows 10
  28. Azure: It’s speak like a pirate day…. ARRAffinity, it’s either true or false
  29. Azure: Machine Learning using Python
  30. Azure: Dreamspark Azure, decent offering by Microsoft
  31. Azure: Get started with Dreamspark WebApps and MySQL on Azure!
  32. Azure: How to Auto-Scale your Web Apps (Web Sites)
  33. Azure: Securing your Web App (Website)
  34. Note from a reader about DirectX 12 on XBox
  35. Windows 10: Looking good with build 10122!
  36. Azure, Raspberry Pi connecting them at low cost
  37. Now you have graduated, so what?
  38. Machine Learning on Azure, how is it different?
  39. Windows 10, TouchDevelop and App Studio
  40. Windows 10: Setting the Developer Mode
  41. Azure and Visual Studio: Changes to the Server Explorer appearance
  42. Windows 10 Raspberry Pi 2+: UC Merced Graduate Students talk about their experience!
  43. Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi at UC Merced!
  44. Windows 10 for IOT is finally released!
  45. Windows 10, Apple and Visual Studio Code, whaaattt? Works on everything, just like Touchdevelop
  46. Windows 10 and Edge aka Spartan, Running some unofficial speed tests not recognized by Microsoft
  47. Windows 10: Unable to update from 10041
  48. Using Windows 10 with Machine Learning
  49. Windows 10, Redis and NoSQL
  50. Azure and Windows 10
  51. Azure: Critical comments about MVAs when learning about VMs Part 1
  52. Windows 10: How to get started!
  53. Getting started with Window 10 development
  54. Error in Fixit Demo: Cannot get Azure subscription ID and thumbprint, urghh
  55. Error ID: 40650, Cannot move or create server. Subscription <id> will exceed server quota.
  56. Salesforce and Microsoft! What the HECK is going on
  57. Azure: QuickStarts, Get started with designing cloud based apps
  58. IOT: Windows 10 for Embedded IOT
  59. IOT: Raspberry Pi 2 and Windows 10
  60. Cloud: Adding a messagebox to your Powershell
  61. Getting started with Azure, Don’t Panic
  62. IOT: The chips in your inexpensive Radio Controlled Car, TX2/RX2

2014 104

  1. IOT: Connect the dots by MS Open Tech, gets your UNO connected to the cloud!
  2. IOT: Using junk to build your Internet of Things thing
  3. Security: 5 URL’s that I found for K-12 programs from undercover agencies
  4. IOT: TouchDevelop Generates Arduino Code
  5. IOT: C++ is pretty important, but getting your first VC++ app working is also important, here is how
  6. IOT: Misread of the Visual Micro on how to set library folder location
  7. IOT: Frameworks and Board Support Packages
  8. IOT: Build your own boards! FAB fabulously!
  9. Pumpkinduino Part 4: The final hardware and software put together
  10. DirectX: Links to the excellent Charles Petzold articles on DirectX
  11. Office Design: Office 365 API Tools
  12. Windows 10: Getting started
  13. Game design: Let’s stop the objectification of women in games
  14. IOT: Lowering your software design’s power consumption (part 2)
  15. IOT: Managing your Embedded Systems and Mobile Devices
  16. Game: Recent update to DirectX Tool Kit (or native XNA)
  17. IOT: Texas Instruments FRAM Microcontroller or System on Chip
  18. Visual Studio 2014 CTP and the $119 Windows 8.1 Toshiba computer
  19. Game Design: Introduction to C++ and DirectX Game Development Jump Start
  20. Game Design: XAML/DirectX/C++ Game Design Links that I have reviewed
  21. IOT: Security
  22. IOT: Thinking about the Hardware for the Pumpkinduino, part 3
  23. IOT: Pumpkinduino UML, part 2
  24. BLE: Review of development kits from Texas Instruments and Nordic Semiconductors
  25. IOT: Halloween Fun! Pumpkinduino! Part 1
  26. IOT: Intel’s Galileo, got it working, how does it compare to other processors
  27. Free ebook: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure
  28. 6 Links to Internet of Things, Tools, Source Control and testing
  29. Computer Science Degree? Or could you just do some shorter process?
  30. Microsoft //Hackathon: Surface Pro 3 i5 4 gig ram and 128 SSD
  31. C# Specifications: Using Visual Studio 2013 to compile a DLL and EXE
  32. C# Language Specifications: Building DLLs and Consuming them, yum!
  33. Free eBook on Model View View Model design pattern
  34. Why are specifications important for software and design?
  35. No “Hello World” but there is an “Eh?” example in the C ISO/IEC 9899:2011
  36. Hello World in the C++ standard ISO/IEC 14882:2011(E)
  37. Unit Testing: Some videos I just watched
  38. C++: Compiling your C++ app source and header file without using the VS IDE
  39. Surface Pro 3: Just bought one on my own nickel, and IT’s AWESOME
  40. C#: The C# Language Specification and Hello World
  41. Arduino Netduino Spark.IO: Building a Win 8 app that consumes Spark.IO output part 2: Model View Controller sort of
  42. Arduino Netduino Spark.IO: Building a Win 8 app that consumes Spark.IO output part 1: Class Diagram
  43. Arduino Netduino: Spark.IO Windows 8 App
  44. FREE! Office 365 API Tools – Preview, DOWNLOAD NOW!
  45. Arduino Netduino: Oscilloscope and Logic Analyzer
  46. Arduino Netduino: Spark.io back in play
  47. Arduino Netduino: Hall Effect Switches, Keyes 003 Magnetic Sensor
  48. Arduino Netduino: Hall Effect, Keyes 003 Magnetic sensor and the General Theory of Electromagnetism
  49. Arduino Netduino: Keyes KY003 Hall Effect Transistor in Sunfounder kit, the real deal
  50. Arduino Netduino: Keyes Key Switch Module
  51. Arduino Netduino: Consider the Spark.IO, lots of low cost configurations
  52. Arduino Netduino: Still investigating the TI CC2541 and BLE
  53. Arduino Netduino now the TI CC2541?
  54. Arduino Netduino: What does it cost to use the Microsoft Cloud/Azure Service Bus?
  55. Arduino Netduino: What happened yesterday with the voltage divider & Netduino
  56. Arduino Netduino: Use USB or Bluetooth to get this sensor lab moving?
  57. Coding For Fun: No really, not the Coding4Fun, coding for fun= CodeHunt
  58. Arduino Netduino: Bluetooth test findings
  59. Insteon for Hub: Thoughts about building Arduino creations that work with the Insteon for Hub
  60. Home Automation: Insteon on Hub, an example of a company with a plan
  61. Arduino/Netduino: Transformers and connecting to the internet using Ethernet
  62. Science and Big Data: Mercury at Perihelion
  63. Arduino or Netduino: Sensor and Actuator, testing the circuit w/o CPU
  64. Internet of things: Summer Reading List
  65. Internet of Things, Arduino/Netduino: Counting the closure of a switch
  66. Arduino/Netduino: Using the RGB smt LED Keynes Sensor
  67. Netduino: Setting up the Netduino Plus 2 with Visual Studio 2013
  68. Make sure to download the .NET Micro Framework from the correct sites
  69. App Design: Getting the stuff to do design
  70. Internet of Things: Temperature Sensor
  71. Internet of Things: Esplora Arduino as an inexpensive sensor
  72. Internet of Things: How to Fab your sensors
  73. Internet of things: Fab, Fritzing and First
  74. Internet of things: Arduino, VS 2013, using the VisualMicro add-in, setting ports
  75. Internet of Things: Arduino, Visual Micro, Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate, New Sketch Project
  76. Internet of Things: Arduino in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate?
  77. Internet of things: Win USB to Arduino via USB/Serial Drivers in Windows 8.1
  78. Jobs in technology in the US, good news and the bad news
  79. Visio and Arduino: An example of the physical design for an e-wearable
  80. Visio: Using Visio to do design for the Arduino
  81. Universal Apps: Starting an exploration
  82. The internet of everything will use lots of really simple devices, anyone listening?
  83. Net Micro Framework: It isn’t an operating system, thanks Steven
  84. Smart Watch: Microsoft announced their Smart Watch
  85. Pebble Watch back in play, Gadgeteer is going into the closet for now.
  86. Gadgeteer: Continuing saga, can’t make connection to it
  87. Embedded Systems: Gadgeteer, software loaded
  88. HeartBleed Bug: Reliable sources (not this blog though)
  89. Netduino versus Arduino: Cost of things
  90. Thoughts on building something: How many 2X4s, nails and do I need a new saw?
  91. Arduino: Using the Arduino with Azure
  92. SmartWatch, Processing 2, C# and the love affair with Java
  93. Pebble Watch: Building an app that incorporates the Pebble Watch
  94. Pebble Watch and Embedded Systems: Trillions of Simple Things
  95. Pebble Watch: Some clarification
  96. TouchDevelop: Cultural Based Games
  97. Pebble watch and Windows 8: Building an app that connects the two
  98. Rapid Prototyping Hardware with Windows 8: Wearable Electronics using TouchDevelop at the LA HACKS
  99. Free Stuff from DreamSpark: Visual Studio Pro
  100. FREE Windows Embedded 8.1, really?
  101. Hardware: Pebble watch which really does work with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
  102. TouchDevelop: Pushing the design envelope with Functional Programming
  103. Reflections on Martin Luther King
  104. TouchDevelop: How to create an Interactive Tutorial

2013 173

  1. Hardware: Just bought a Dell Venue Pro 8, it is awesome!
  2. Programming in the cloud, it’s not Monaco, it’s TouchDevelop
  3. C++/CX/DirectX: I want to use DirectXTK w/o using nuget
  4. C++/CX/DirectX: Working with Textures, Models and Images
  5. Cake Match: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  6. Triangle Destroyer: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  7. Sports Memory Game: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  8. Cosmic Crush: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  9. Jump Nyan Cat Jump: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  10. Terrain Swap: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  11. Pokemon Mega Blaziken Run: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  12. Teemo Friends Happy Match Party: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  13. League of Legends Teemo Chop: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  14. Slap the Teemo: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  15. Pokemon memory: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  16. Knight Rider: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  17. Pokemon match Gotta Match em all: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  18. Pandoras Sandbox: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  19. Radiant Silvergun: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  20. Mothra attack: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  21. Bruin Memory Game: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  22. Nyan cats attack: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  23. Pokemon meowth defender: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  24. Poppin Summer: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  25. Psycho-2: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  26. Dodgeball: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  27. Psycho: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  28. Flash Runner: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  29. Toy-story-memory-match: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  30. Disney Princess Memory Match: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  31. Turkey Trot: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  32. Veggie Tales Match: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  33. Stop the aliens: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  34. Shoot the ducks: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  35. Pikachu Pogo: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  36. Kangaroo pogo: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  37. Jump your cuuube: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  38. Hit all asteriods: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  39. Test your card memory: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them your feedback!
  40. Super Tank: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  41. Space Invaders: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  42. Sugar Smash: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  43. Chicken Dodge: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  44. Cartoon Shooter: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  45. Fruit Puzzle: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  46. Pikachu Catch: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  47. luigi-adventure: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  48. super-mario-memory: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  49. Advanced Memory Match: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  50. Match Your Memory: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  51. Feed the doggy: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  52. Orange Cutter: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  53. Jumper Jump: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  54. Drive Your Small Car: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  55. Drag, drop, match: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  56. Defense your square: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  57. Techno Power Tetris: Help UCLA students learn how to build quality games by giving them feedback!
  58. Batman Jigsaw: Help UCLA students by reviewing an app!
  59. UCLA Game Design: Learn Spanish
  60. C++/DirectX/CX: Consuming WinRT in C++
  61. C++/DirectX/CX: WinRT investigation, creating the WinRT project
  62. C++/CX/DirectX: brilliant use of DirectX sample
  63. C++/CX: Latest release of Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit for Windows 8.1 Games
  64. C++/DirectX: Creating a settings charm in the charm bar
  65. C++/DirectX: Adding a privacy statement to a template app
  66. C++/DirectX: AppxUpload file, does it stand on a standard?
  67. C++ and .NET: What’s the /ZW and the /clr incompatibility thang?
  68. C++/DirectX: Sprites are not a delicious carbonated drink
  69. C++/DirectX/XAML: Message about MessageDialog
  70. DirectX/C++/CX: Charming charms in your charming app
  71. C++/CX: Oh darn it, PRIVACY Statements
  72. The Grumpy Blogger wishes Scott Kerfoot a fond goodbye
  73. Just got a Kindle Paperwhite, using send to Kindle on my Windows 8.1 machine
  74. Game Design: You think your initial apps suck, well take a look at these initial designs
  75. Game Design: The ethics of initial app building
  76. Word: When is a Frame and a Table a problem?
  77. C++/CX: Is a singleton really single?
  78. DirectX/C++/CX: Finding the DirectX 3D shooting game sample for Windows 8
  79. DirectX OnRamp: Understanding Graphics Concepts Part 3
  80. C++/CX: DirectX OnRamp, Part 2: Working with Application LifeCycle
  81. C++/CX: Win 8.1 DirectX On Ramp, Part 1: Stripper App
  82. C++/CX: Difference between the console and Windows 8.1 configuration properties
  83. C++/CX: Code Analysis
  84. C++/CX: Source-Code annotation language (SAL)
  85. C++/CX on-ramp: Ethics
  86. C++/CX: Since when has C++ become the outlaw language?
  87. C++/CX: Inheritance, ref, sealed class and base classes
  88. C++/CX: Good Book for DirectX games: DirectX 11.1 Game Programming
  89. C++/CX: DirectXTK, an interesting design helper tool
  90. C++/CX: Lexical, Operators, and Keywords with the version in VS 2012 and VS 2013
  91. C++/CX: Exploring Inheritance using the Code Map
  92. C++/CX: What is up with that giant SQL database in my C++ files
  93. C++/CX: How it differs from Native C++/11, does it use the CLR?
  94. Preparing for Windows 8.1 RTM: Correct link to make USB Drive Bootable and load the ISO
  95. C++ and the cloud via Azure
  96. I just installed VS 2012 or VS 2013 Express & I’m asked to register. Why?
  97. DirectX/C++ in VS 2012 and VS 2013, little known secrets to keep you in the dark
  98. Why so much discussion about DirectX & C++? What about Unity or Ogre?
  99. Windows 8.1, WinSxS and C++
  100. Sharing and Organizing using OneNote (CS188 students)
  101. I love OneNote, but can you use C++ to write programs for it?
  102. When installing VS 2013 Ultimate should you install Silverlight or Lightswitch?
  103. C++, Direct3D, Building a Dice Game and more in Windows 8, with video
  104. C++/XAML: Determining the view state or orientation of your Windows 8
  105. Using Blend Visual States to speed up your C++ User interface design
  106. I get the error C3984 when I try to compile my C++ program
  107. Space Aliens: Inline Classes head into headers
  108. Space Aliens and C++ programming and inline classes
  109. Books I am reviewing for my CS188 class at UCLA
  110. Links to things I am working with on Kinect
  111. Win 8.1 & DirectX 11.2: Shader Model links, including the HLSL Language Syntax
  112. New Certification: Windows Store App Using C#
  113. Using the DirectX App (XAML) project, the HLSL part, CSO and so forth
  114. Using Class Wizard to create Classes in C++
  115. C++/11: Home on the Range-based for-loop
  116. Beginner: Create shaders and drawing primitives tutorial, tutorial part 2
  117. Beginners: DirectX 3D graphics with DirectX tutorial, tutorial part 1
  118. IE 11 won’t open in the Windows 8.1 Start Screen
  119. Migrating DirectX 9 or DirectX 10 to DirectX 11
  120. That auto keyword in C++ 11, not your Dad’s auto
  121. Free Video on how to get started with VS 2013 C++/XAML/DirectX
  122. XAML: Data Binding using one control to control another control
  123. Free: Download the Windows 8.1 SDK
  124. Using DirectX 11.2 and C++ to build the most basic Windows Form
  125. DirectX using the “Windows” style form, not XAML kind of form
  126. Free: 11 Windows 8.1 DirectX links
  127. DirectX 11.2 in Windows 8.1: XMVectors
  128. Move to Windows 8.1 or stay on Windows 8? Move to VS 2013 or stay on VS 2012?
  129. Build your first app using a completely online tool that isn’t touchdevelop
  130. VS 2013, C++: STL changes to meet C++/11 specs, Explicit conversion operators
  131. Free Training for Azure, the Microsoft Cloud! A stunning victory for you!
  132. Videos about the new stuff in Visual Studio 2013, C++ and from Research
  133. Four videos on DirectX using Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013
  134. BEST DirectX/XAML Game Tutorial Ever!
  135. Videos about Game design that I am viewing
  136. Git Team Foundation Services, NOW!
  137. Lambda not just for Lambs dad’s anymore
  138. Just got my ISO/IEC 14882:2011(E) C++ Specification, Exciting!
  139. null, nullptr, dull? Certainly not! New C++ 11 stuff
  140. Where are the tabs in Internet Explorer 11?
  141. In Windows 8.1 store how do I find a specific category of Apps?
  142. Oh what do I do with my Windows 8 apps in Windows 8.1 and VS 2013?
  143. Cool=VS 2013: What’s new for C++
  144. In case you get this: We couldn't get your developer license for Windows 8.1 Preview. Our Server is unavailable right now. Please try again later.
  145. Surface RT upgrade to Windows 8.1 preview: How to be extremely impressed!
  146. C++/XAML: It's final test time at the UC's, CPP, CP SLO, CSULA! And let's talk about Unit Testing
  147. XAML/C++: String Conversion from textboxes
  148. Free: Software Design Kits for Windows 8 and Visual Studio
  149. Game Design, ALM, C++, XAML and DirectX: Getting started
  150. XAML/C++: Does anyone really know what time it is? Timers
  151. XBOX, XAML/C++, Direct2, Direct3, scalable, repeatable and immersive art form game engines
  152. Xbox game Design: Mission Impossible and Nuremberg UFO battle of 1561
  153. C++: Clone Code detection, is this some kind of Star Wars thing?
  154. Async coding in C++ means never having to say you are sorry
  155. Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8
  156. TouchDevelop: Build Windows Store apps easily and quickly
  157. XAML/C++: Why learn C++ and not Python?
  158. XAML/C++: Why is it so hard to use XAML and DirectX
  159. Khan: Super fun discussion with someone’s brilliant future student
  160. C++: Working with Direct2D in XAML, today the Viewbox
  161. C++: DirectX and 3-D editing in Visual Studio
  162. C++: Hey yo, why haven’t you got an app in the store? Students at CSULA did, with C++
  163. XAML/C++: Jedi OutCast and Jedi Academy Open Source?
  164. Wallet: Quit your whining, there is an API
  165. XAML And C++: In case you are stuck in the “Walkthrough: Creating and Using a Static Library (C++)”
  166. C++: Using Text in the XAML Textboxes
  167. A statement: Statements in C++
  168. Java vulnerability
  169. More links on C++
  170. Writing your first C++ Program using Visual Studio 2012
  171. Using your free Azure VM to host Visual Studio 2012
  172. Syllabus for the CSULA C++ for Java Programmers Class
  173. C++ Links

2012 166

  1. Include Ads in your Windows 8 Apps: XAML Based Windows 8 Apps
  2. Preparing your Windows 8 Applications for the store
  3. Include Ads in your Windows 8 Apps: JavaScript Based Windows 8 Apps
  4. Free Online Training: C++ from PluralSight, wow!
  5. A clear and simple way to convert a string to integer in C++/CX
  6. Converting an int to a string in XAML C++/CX
  7. Welcome to the world of blogging!
  8. Designing your Java Script Win 8 Store game from scratch: Adding Music
  9. Using the Visibility property enumeration Collapsed or Visible
  10. Free: Using Visual Studio 2012 to make a Million bucks, get started video
  11. Designing your JavaScript game from scratch sort of: CSS
  12. Super Simple Asynchronous FilePicker Operation in C++
  13. Windows 8 Tile Live Notification using C++
  14. Free Windows 8 help and software tools
  15. What is your app great at? How do you get started?
  16. Working with Live Tiles locally using XAML and C++ / CX using Images
  17. Windows Store now open to all developers
  18. Windows 8 Design: C++, a little XAML and Tile Notification
  19. Free Hands on Learning: Using IE 10 to learn about the Design Process for Windows 8 apps
  20. Win8 Design: Seriously you need to do design. But HOW?
  21. Building a software company with free stuff
  22. Box2D Physics port to JavaScript
  23. Using Shared WinRT C++ Physics Engines in Your WinJS game
  24. First Prize in Imagine Cup: $50,000
  25. JavaScript anonymous functions, weird or callbacks to the future?
  26. Why is javascript in Windows 8 so anonymous and weird?
  27. Getting started with Direct2D/Direct3D: The Secret of External Dependencies
  28. XNA=DirectXMath? Xbox Live part of Windows 8
  29. List of 2 Reasons to use WinRT: Ease of use and JavaScript
  30. Windows To Go in Win8 RTM, UI, and some total coolness
  31. Free Online Hackathon! This is a first
  32. Upgraded Hybrid JavaScript and C++ Sample to functionality on Win8 RTM
  33. VS 2012 will build but not deploy when using a WinRT with Javascript
  34. Running Windows 8 RTM, some blathering and tested Win8 Win-shortcut keys
  35. Data Structures class using Windows 8 and WinRT with JavaScript an introduction
  36. Modern UI flap
  37. Data Structures using Windows 8 Modern UI design, part deux: Students Excited
  38. Free Windows 8 Virtual Labs available NOW, no Windows 8 required
  39. Free! 21 Part Free tutorial on HTML5 and CSS
  40. OneNote 2013: Amazingly great!
  41. Promises and asynchrony: S/W Promises defined with words normal people can read
  42. PowerPoint Storyboard: How to create your own shape library
  43. Developing Outlook.com: Well back from whatever July was and Outlook.com appears! Impact on Windows 8 (Win8)
  44. App for Office365: Getting started
  45. Apps for Office?
  46. Free eBook: Office 365
  47. Port your UNIX code to Visual Studio 12
  48. VS 12 for UNIX Users, an introduction!
  49. Free eBook: Programming Windows 8 Apps
  50. Game Design: Brainstorming a game with block diagrams part 2
  51. Game Design: Tools you need to get familiar with, a bunch of downloads and installs
  52. Skydrive with Office 2010 versus Office 2013
  53. Game Design: Which Tool to use for your database management
  54. Office 2013: Sweet on the Tablet! You choose where to store your files!
  55. Thinking about game design
  56. Best Game Construction HTML5/JS and WIndows 8 tool for game design
  57. strict in Windows 8 JavaScript
  58. WTF: Anonymous function in JavaScript, what about private functions?
  59. More storyboarding Irate Dolphins, incorporating the PFE feedback
  60. Preparing for Windows 8 App Review
  61. Snap, Snap, Snap: Windows 8 Game Design and HTML 5, part 2
  62. Snap, Snap, Snap: Windows 8 Game Design and HTML 5, part 1
  63. List of four Kinect Security items
  64. Irate Dolphins: More storyboard
  65. Designing for the Windows Kinect: Hover Buttons
  66. Windows 8, C++ and XAML: Game Design
  67. Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind,
  68. Google App Engine Pricing compared to Visual Studio
  69. Windows 8: What is this token thing when registering at the store?
  70. Setting Up Team Foundation Server (not services) on Windows 8
  71. See Windows 8 at the Microsoft Store!
  72. Setting up Team Foundation Services on Win8!
  73. WIndows 8 Design: Storyboarding Windows 8 or Windows Phone 7 apps
  74. Windows 8 Day by the beach in Carlsbad California
  75. Wait for it… await, do I have use this with WinRT?
  76. Porting a Windows Phone App to WinRT
  77. Let’s talk about directives in VC++ in Visual Studio 11 and Windows 8
  78. XNAMATH is now in DirectMath and only accessible from C++
  79. DirectX 11 and Windows 8
  80. Preparing your app for Windows 8 Launch
  81. Oracle versus Google and Microsoft Open Source promise
  82. 5 things you need so you can to start programming with C++ and Kinect
  83. Vote for the Imagine Cup team of choice every 24 hours!
  84. Kinect and my dog
  85. Talking to my inner space alien about MetroRT, which should be simply Metro or WinRT or something completely mutated
  86. Microsoft and the United States Marshals disrupt cybercrime botnet
  87. List of 10 Windows Phone 7 Articles that are useful
  88. Jerry Nixon at Microsoft reports that Apple Security situation is getting worse. I don’t agree.
  89. FREE VIP Windows8 Developer Event - 4/23/2012 - Club Nokia @ LA Live... or you can attend the event online if you can’t make it!
  90. Direct3D in Windows 8, extremely seriously simple code
  91. List of 5 seemingly Secret MetroRT/DirectX information in VS11 and 1 secret in VS 2010
  92. So a period, a hyphen and a greater than symbol walk in a bar…
  93. Big Deal: First Console app using VS 11 Ultimate Beta on Windows 8
  94. List of 5 questions about programing MetroRT and C++/CX or whatever
  95. CompositeTransforms in MetroRT
  96. The remains of the day: MetroRT XAML makes things move
  97. From X-Rays to Silly Putty via Uranus
  98. Latest software tool found to cause gravitational abnormalities under certain conditions
  99. List of 1 thing in Win8, Windows 8: Playing media files
  100. Code Camp in Southern California: Please Attend!
  101. Top 10 Best Practice Links for using C# with Windows 8
  102. Skype Partners with DonorsChoose.org to Bring Technology Resources to Classrooms Across the Country
  103. Slot machine, the continuing saga, Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Windows 8
  104. Slot Machine: Visual Studio 2010 using VC++, Next VS 11 Express Beta
  105. Really Simple and Dopey Windows 8 DirectX sample
  106. Reimagine your App on Win 8: Attend the blow out Event at Silicon Valley, Microsoft!
  107. Yippee just wrote my Hello World XAML/C++ app, now I am an expert at WinRT!
  108. Free and easy Animation design in XNA
  109. Using Code Snippets: The real deal
  110. Delegates of Lambda, Func, in a simple way for C# groupies
  111. Datadog? What in the heck is datadog and is it part of that new OS?
  112. Blend 5 and Visual Studio 11: Awesome
  113. 10 fresh links about Silverlight 5, Is Silverlight 5 Dead? Really?
  114. UFOs and MUD and Software and beyond, Funday Sunday!
  115. Lab: Move an object using Silverlight and XNA in Windows Phone Part 2
  116. Lab: Move an object using Silverlight and XNA in Windows Phone Part 1
  117. Free game to learn how to use Office and compete with your friends
  118. 5 more ideas on how to make money off of Azure
  119. Silverlight is dead, long live Silverlight 5: TrickPlay or Double your speed
  120. Camels, XAML and Silverlight is dead? Long live Silverlight 5!
  121. Virtualization is virtually important for your developer virtual skills, really
  122. Valentine on the cheap: Use Publisher to print out a valentine’s card
  123. 5 Ways To Make Money with the Cloud!
  124. Colliding with Expression Design to Expression Blend to WP7 and Kinect Part 1 of 3 or so
  125. HTML 5: Alice Pang, Queen of HTML 5 shows you how to cheat at HTML 5?!
  126. How to become a technical evangelist
  127. Great Expression Design: A Simple Compass Control
  128. 5 top things that work together: Kinect, Windows Phone 7, Expression Design, Expression Blend and Visual Studio
  129. Simply Dragging in WPF, WP7 Silverlight and Silverlight 5
  130. Speech Recognition using Visual Studio: Determining the BNA
  131. CPSLO: Saturday info
  132. Programming Office 2010 using Visual Studio (not VBA): Burn before reading
  133. Office 2010: C# and Office! Secret stuff. Strictly burn before reading
  134. Academic pricing for Office, $99.95: As a CS Student why should you buy MS Office?
  135. Imagine Grant announced! Good work LifeLens!
  136. Top 10 sharks using Expression Design, Free Blend & XAML
  137. Lambda, Lambdee, Lambduh: Methodically Anonymous
  138. Lamda, Lamdee, Lamduh: Delegate first and then do the Lambda
  139. Building software for a ship: Explanation for the Costa Concordia blogs
  140. Expression Blend: I made a copy of a UserControl and now it throws an error
  141. Valentines? Cute Silverlight project download and make a comment
  142. Free software with registration! WHY?
  143. Free: Links to APIs and information about SkyDrive
  144. USC: Totally cool index of How-To for Windows Phone 7
  145. Costa Concordia: Software Quality Engineer Certification
  146. Chrome flunks the National Vulnerability Database analysis
  147. Kinect: Curriculum for the classroom
  148. Costa Concordia: Failure Mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
  149. Costa Concordia: Human in the control loop
  150. Kinect: What the Kinect can do in the classroom
  151. Why to develop for the Windows Phone? See this video for the “Smoke”
  152. Free Music, Sound Effects, Sprites for Game Design
  153. VC++ Based game: What?!
  154. Creating a Model: Games are more realistic if the play is modeled correctly
  155. Tombstone territory: Preparing the App.XAML.CS for Tombstoning
  156. Tombstone Territory: XNA Tombstoning
  157. Tiled, Toasted & Raw? Was it that New Year’s party or Azure with WP7? You Decide
  158. Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7
  159. Social Game is the thane: Quickly implementing Pushy Phone Notifications
  160. Oh why? You try stuff and it doesn’t work
  161. Social Games on da Phone: Microsoft Identity Foundation
  162. Social WP7 Game: Isolated storage and notification
  163. Social Games Part Bazillion of Katrillion: Make Phone App Social
  164. Fix for failed certification: Non Music + Videos Hub Applications That Play Media
  165. Speed test: IE 9 Versus Chrome
  166. Start the year off by reading about tombstoning on the windows phone 7

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  1. A glossary of gestures for the Windows Phone user
  2. Windows Phone Keyboard: Speed demon or just a demon?
  3. NuGet does work on Visual Studio Express
  4. Free Game Design Tools, just in time for Christmas Part 5/5
  5. Free Game Design tools, just in time for Christmas 4/5: Sprites & Backgrounds
  6. Free Game Design Tools, just in time for Christmas, part 3/5
  7. ASU Links for Windows Phone Dev!
  8. Oh crud, I turned in my app to app hub and all I got was: [NeutralResourceLangage] and no t-shirt
  9. Expression Blend 4 or Visual Studio Express?
  10. Using Blend 4: Zombies versus Santa Claus
  11. Hidden Emoticons or Emoji’s on Windows Phone 7
  12. Using Expression Blend 4 to build Windows Phone Apps: The beginnning
  13. Using FarSeer Physics helper in Windows Phone 7 NO CODE development
  14. Please view these videos on how to design a game using Farseer
  15. Adobe announced on Nov. 8 that they are ending Flash on mobile support
  16. Is it XAML or Silverlight? And what is going to happen to various technologies at Microsoft?
  17. Two paths in the wilderness: Silverlight with XNA game management and XNA game management
  18. Unity Skipping Windows Phone 7
  19. A splash screen and then your game screen: Zombie Santa Claus Level Programming
  20. USC: Background Image and Orienting a background image
  21. USC: Screen Orientation
  22. UCLA Material: Using Gestures
  23. USC: Links to sites with free stuff, money making and learning material
  24. Using the ILDASM
  25. Imagine Cup: Uploading your ASP.NET project for judging
  26. Imagine Cup: Uploading your Game Files to the Imagine Cup site
  27. Imagine Cup, Uploading your Software Design Project: files, video, etc..
  28. Imagine Cup: I got a medical idea for phone and no way to implement it, now you do with Health Vault, mobile SDK
  29. That Accelerometer simulator thingie, where is it?
  30. Building Windows Phone Apps, Windows Phone Apps, Windows Phone Apps
  31. Direct X 11, XNA and Blender
  32. Link for Imagine Cup Demo
  33. Free ly thinking: Maybe MSDN isn’t such a bad thing for WP7.1 beginner devs
  34. Free Design Tools just in time for Christmas, 2/5: Installing the tools
  35. Free Game Design Tools, just in time for Christmas, part 1/5
  36. Jobs in securing code: An answer to email from student whose name starts with a B at Rio Hondo
  37. Positioning fonts on the Windows Phone 7 Screen
  38. Free ly thinking: Codecs that are supported by Windows Phone 7
  39. Free ly thinking: More discussion about the MediaPlayerLauncher class or how to show a video in WP7 XNA
  40. Free ly Thinking: Can I increase the frame rate in Windows Phone 7
  41. Review of 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, volume 1: Developing Apps 1-50
  42. Future of technology
  43. John McCarthy, Father of Artificial Intelligence and LISP passes from this veil
  44. HTML 5: What is in IE 10?
  45. HTML 5: What is in IE9?
  46. DARNIT! The example I found for Windows Phone 7 storage doesn’t work
  47. Free refactor tool in all versions of Visual Studio, totally cool
  48. Free HTML 5 Curriculum for Professors and life long learners!
  49. Free Contest: Do a paper design, get access to a robot and win $10,000 for the best robot!
  50. Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language, passes away
  51. Free Windows Phone 7 Cheat Sheet
  52. Vector2, Rectangle, and Windows Phone 7
  53. Simply learning Game Management: Using the Game State
  54. Oddly, need to use Expression Design & also use the Windows Phone SDK Blend, they don’t play together.
  55. Textures, Rectangle, Vector2 and comments
  56. XAPFest at DeVry University in Phoenix
  57. I just installed the Windows Phone SDK, but I get the MFPlat.DLL missing message, or your emulator doesn’t work
  58. Design Windows Phone Applications, for business or games, using free or sort of free stuff
  59. Windows Phone 7 Game Design: Placing the image in a specific point
  60. Windows Phone 7 Game Design: Removing an image background using Paint.net
  61. Windows Phone 7 Game Design: Removing a background from an image using Powerpoint
  62. Game Design for the Imagine Cup and Windows Phone 7
  63. Designing WP7 Games: Making Graphics, backgrounds for your game
  64. Game Design/Imagine Cup 2012, part 3: Player Input
  65. 170 Free Game Audio Files, Free as in non-Exclusive, Worldwide, Royalty-Free
  66. Game Design for Windows Phone and the Imagine Cup 2012, part deux
  67. Getting started with creating Windows Phone Games for Imagine Cup, Part 1 of a bunch
  68. Using Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone
  69. Code Snippets: Examining what a Code Snippet is
  70. Code Snippets: Using Code Snippets and “Surround With…”
  71. Setting Code Contracts in Visual Studio 2010
  72. Thinking about Angry Dolphins: Web Matrix, NOAA and Windows Phone 7
  73. Project ideas for Imagine Cup and senior projects
  74. Nokia Developer: Windows Phone?
  75. FREE! Graphing Calculator from Microsoft for College Students
  76. Free tool to fix problems on your Windows Computer from Microsoft
  77. Free Professional Grade Database tool: LightSwitch
  78. Free: How to create applications for Azure (if you use the 30 day pass)
  79. Link to Developer Centers on MSDN
  80. On vacation, Encounter with a Blue Whale
  81. Free Software for STEM students in the US
  82. Free Software for Students (and this is NOT a rip-off)
  83. Free Graphing Calculator from Microsoft: Mathematics Calculator
  84. TouchDevelop: Creating Phone Apps on your Windows Phone 7
  85. TouchDevelop: Impact on Software Engineering
  86. DeVry Imagine Cup information
  87. Developing your own Domain-Specific Language
  88. Do you hate your compiler class? Don’t be a hater, build your own compiler
  89. Team Foundation Server versus GIT
  90. Interoperability: Using DirectX with the GDI Device Context (DC)
  91. DirectX: Hello World Sample
  92. Free Game Development, but which one?
  93. Getting started with the ADO.NET Entity Framework
  94. WTF#: Winforms and F#, is that possible?
  95. Best Silverlight 5 example project EVER
  96. The “Go to” link for 101 free Linq samples
  97. Why should I use the Visual Studio SDK? Part 2 Data
  98. Free tutorial by Kevin Hoffman: WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Local Data Storage
  99. Why should I use the Visual Studio SDK? Part 1
  100. Free Tutorial by Kevin Hoffman: WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Application Tiles and Push Notifications
  101. What are the benefits of the Enterprise Library?
  102. Happy Birthday Linux!
  103. Free Tutorial by Kevin Hoffman: WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Using Bing Maps
  104. What does the Microsoft Enterprise Library Configuration Console do?
  105. Free Tutorial by Kevin Hoffman: WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Hardware and Device Services, Part 4
  106. An interesting paper on Point and Shoot outdoor game from AT&T
  107. Free tool to incorporate third party libraries into a .NET Application
  108. How to NOT review a paper
  109. Free Tutorial by Kevin Hoffman: WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Advanced UI Part 3
  110. Got down to the Strand and did some body surfing
  111. Free Tutorial by Kevin Hoffman: WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Introduction to XAML and Silverlight (Part 2)
  112. Relaxing pictures from vacation
  113. Get started with Windows Phone Programming using Silverlight
  114. Free tutorial by Kevin Hoffman: Introduction to C# for iPhone and Android developers, part 1
  115. Free Tutorial By Kevin Hoffman: WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Introducing the Execution Model
  116. Interface in XNA on Windows Phone 7
  117. Visual Studio Gallery: Free Downloads
  118. What happened to the Immediate window in my Visual Studio 2010 IDE?
  119. Free Windows Phone Developer Resources
  120. Free jumpstart for Windows Phone 7
  121. Creating XNA Template for phone
  122. Creating a Silverlight template for phone
  123. What happens when you create a Visual Studio Project part 4
  124. What happens when you create a Visual Studio Project part 3: Manifest
  125. What happens when you create a Visual Studio Project part 2: vshost.exe
  126. What happens when you create a Visual Studio Project part 1
  127. People’s choice award at the Imagine Cup: Vote early! Vote often!
  128. Report on the Imagine Cup Ellis Island Party
  129. Santiago Canyon College gets through the first stage at the Imagine Cup!
  130. Bubble, Bubble Toil and Trouble
  131. Inheritance and interface properties
  132. Interfaces and inheritance, a reading list
  133. Inheritance using Duff’s beer sensor code
  134. Secure Deployment using ClickOnce
  135. Encapsulation at Duff’s Beer brewery
  136. A quick review of Encapsulation using Duff's Beer as an example
  137. Regular Expressions and Special Characters in the Console.Writeline
  138. Thinking about Regular Expressions and Console.Writeline
  139. Make an Image Button using XAML, it’s easy and FUN!
  140. Other voices begin to speak about Apple’s OSX security vulnerabilities
  141. Tab control taken over by bacteria computer
  142. Links to Virtualizing stackpanel and treeviews
  143. Drag and drop in WPF (and similar to Silverlight)
  144. WTF: ApplicationCommands.NotACommand Property
  145. Application Command List
  146. Free Kinect SDK released today
  147. Enter a color in a textbox and change the color fill in a rectangle
  148. Deploying applications: Custom Actions
  149. When to use ListChanged, CurrentChanged, CurrentItemChanged, or DataSourceChanged
  150. What is, Why to use: The Manifest Generation and Editing Tool (Mage.exe) or MageUI.exe
  151. Changing the color fill of an object using Binding and SelectedItem.Content in a combobox
  152. Free, get ready for that interview: WPF with Data
  153. Free learning material for Windows Presentation Foundation, Big improvements in the Framework 4.0 material
  154. IValueConvertor versus IMultiValueConvertor, nothing free here
  155. Free Tools: PowerCommand 10 for Visual Studio 2010
  156. Converting Data in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
  157. Free: Azure 30 day pass, please sign up, if you signed up using the other number, do it again with the new one. Free
  158. XAML and SoundPlayer
  159. What you need to know about routed events in WPF (similar to Silverlight)
  160. Apple demotes the laptop, desktop to a “device”, really?
  161. XAML: Property Value Precedence
  162. Free Training kit for Sharepoint and Office365
  163. Free Developer tool:
  164. Why take computer science? Save lives and the world
  165. Getting prepared for the next thing
  166. What does Package Verified mean in the WP7 submission process and other whinings
  167. Free tool for Software Engineering: Guessimate
  168. Get started with Silverlight
  169. You can now use Visual Basic on Windows Phone 7 to do XNA development?
  170. Free XBox if you buy a Windows 7 Laptop?
  171. Protecting your Windows 7 machine from viruses and phishing
  172. HTML 5 in Expression 4 Web
  173. Mac Defender: The anatomy of a virus, discussion of the problems with the Mac OS X
  174. ISEF: Intel sponsors AWESOME contest for Teen Age Inventors and Scientists worldwide
  175. Mac virus reported, “Mac Protector”, but it isn’t the first time as is being reported
  176. Privacy by design?
  177. HTML 5: Changes in the DOCTYPE, really starting at the top and beginning of HTML 5 HTML 5： 变化中的 DOCTYPE，真正从顶部开始，开始的 HTML 5
  178. Free HTML 5 tutorials (免费的 HTML 5 教程)
  179. Microsoft research into sound and impact on music
  180. Material needed for final in ASP.NET class
  181. Drupal on https://nvs.nist.gov, Sharepoint Foundation is also “free”
  182. IE10, Internet Explorer 10, yes that’s right Internet Explorer 10 news
  183. IE 9 and IE 10 performance compared to other browser
  184. Drupal security compared to Sharepoint for the previous 3 months as of 5/16/2011, Drupal, not so good
  185. Free Azure toolkit for Windows Phone 7
  186. Learning how to Develop Windows 7 Applications using VC++
  187. MFC Windows Development, is it a waste of time?
  188. Alfred Thompson: Is he correct about the importance of having an app, etc. that you can point at?
  189. Skype, Lync, Unified Communication
  190. SCRUM: Microsoft Guidelines
  191. Free Mathematics Add-in for Word (including the “free” Word) and One Note
  192. Agile programming or SCRUM programming?
  193. HTML 5: How to use the canvas
  194. Skype acquisition by Microsoft
  195. Windows Phone 7: Videos on how to build Silverlight games on Windows Phone 7
  196. Silverlight 5 Games: Looking around at the early bloggers
  197. Silverlight 5: Implicit Data Templates
  198. Free learning kit for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0
  199. Free for educators and STEM-D students! A scratchpad for your musical ideas: SongSmith
  200. When you develop projects you need to stick with it: NASA Gravity Probe B, 52 years in the making!
  201. Request for Information: 100 YEAR STARSHIP™ STUDY, due to DARPA by June 3, 2011
  202. Microsoft software development tool released for direct use on Linux and Mac (Apple)
  203. If you are 9-17, WIN $5,000 for designing a Kodu game by May 10, 2011
  204. The Osama Bin Laden picture virus: a real threat or phony
  205. Silverlight Games: Add Images and use the mouse to move images
  206. Is there a Visual Studio F# Express? Is there free stuff for F#?
  207. XNA Game resources: Free sounds and music to use in your games
  208. Using the Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer simulator
  209. Malware attack specifically targets Mac users, NIST reports 379 vulnerabilities over past 3 months, get your free anti-virus from Microsoft!
  210. Macros, Macros, Macros: What the heck is a Macro in MS Office products like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and others?
  211. Converting Word 2003 macros to Word 2010 (or 2007)
  212. Artificial Intelligence: What about space aliens and the software to communicate with them?
  213. HTML 5: Become an expert
  214. Communicating with Space Aliens, a process similar to interoperability in software using Interfaces
  215. HTML 5: Specification news! Latest specifications released!
  216. What’s new in Windows 7.5 (formerly Mango)
  217. Coolness: 3D scanning using your PHONE!
  218. Physics, Object oriented programming, Artificial Intelligence, Space Aliens and Students
  219. Pex4Fun: Create your own Coding Duel
  220. Artificial Intelligence: F# versus other languages, am I contradicting myself? And will the royal couple consider AI during the wedding?
  221. F#: Edited articles with code
  222. Artificial Intelligence: What programming language should I learn to do Artificial Intelligence?
  223. F#: With a few lines of code entered into the powershell and analyze gigabytes of cloud data!
  224. Azure Cloud Outage caused by network error, egg on my face
  225. Software Engineering: Success or no success, generally the schools aren’t going to be helpful
  226. Windows 7 Milestone! 350 million licenses sold!
  227. Artificial Intelligence Tutorial: Video Games and Artificial Intelligence
  228. Artificial Intelligence: Reflections on Turing’s "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
  229. What is Lync? How does it benefit you? And a mention of artificial intelligence
  230. Silverlight game design: Here are few of the silverlight designs offered at Codeplex for you no cost use!
  231. UML: Use Cases utilizing <<include>>
  232. Anticryptography
  233. Silverlight game design review: Clear Breeze Design
  234. Pong updated for XNA 4.0 video: Starting, adding classes, and code
  235. Amazon Cloud Outage caused by network error
  236. Practical use of Artificial Intelligence: Making Beer
  237. Internet browser security: On April 21, 2011 Chrome is a loser
  238. Research: Kinect for Windows SDK beta
  239. Research: What is Automated Reasoning
  240. University of Wisconsin, Madison finds GIANT number of security bugs during Windows 7 production
  241. Research: Programming Theorems, learning about Theorems, and applying Theorems, take two
  242. Online Programming Tools from Microsoft Research: Z3, where do you use it?
  243. Expression Blend at Mix 11
  244. Online programming tools from Microsoft Research
  245. Silverlight 5 Top Beta features
  246. Silverlight 5: Get the latest beta and watch the video!
  247. Windows Phone 7: Write programs on your Windows Phone 7
  248. Using Facebook, Live and other technologies in your application
  249. Imagine Cup: What I entered into the Bing Contest for $10,000 potential prize
  250. Imagine Cup: Software Design Winners—Notetaker from Arizona State
  251. Imagine Cup 2011: An interview
  252. Imagine Cup: US Finals, Day of Judging!
  253. FREE SDK: Microsoft Research Imagine Cup briefing about Windows Phone Apps and Cloud Technology, Project Hawaii
  254. Kinect: Researcher briefs the ADEs at the Imagine Cup
  255. Imagine Cup: The ADE team prepares for the event
  256. F# online: Have you wanted to experiment with a functional language?
  257. Free Azure access code for Web Matrix users: Free Azure Code
  258. Exam Prep 70-511: XAML Hierarchical Binding to code
  259. Free Exam Guide 70--511: XAML, DataTemplates, Window.Resources and comix galore
  260. F#: Really briefly, for today
  261. Exam Prep 70-511: Binding more and more
  262. Exam Guide 70-511: SuperSimpleBinding
  263. Exam Guide: Binding to Hierarchical Data using TreeViews
  264. Web Matrix: Chat can be boring, some ideas from the past
  265. Free Training in person for Azure Cloud by the homerun hitters: Bruno Terkaly and Rob Bagby!
  266. Free Anti-Virus, from Microsoft, I use the Microsoft Security Essentials for my home computers!
  267. Links to Mystery SDKSamples for the Data Binding How-To Topics
  268. Summary of Links to Exam 70-511 Study Guide
  269. Handholding approach to programming, or as it is sometimes called: Extreme Programming
  270. ComboBox: Binding data to the ComboBox using INotifyPropertyChanged
  271. How to: Create a Simple Binding, reviewing the article on MSDN
  272. Free SEO toolkit! Free tutorial on SEO! Free analysis tool!
  273. PLINQ: Parallel LINQ
  274. {Dev:unplugged} contest: You can win $40,000 for entering this contest and submitting an HTML5 based project
  275. Why aren’t robot pets more popular?
  276. Object oriented programming is dead! Long Live Object Oriented Programming, ramblings about the past
  277. 3D Graphics: Blender or SoftImage?
  278. WebMatrix: URL Shortener on your site
  279. FREE, AppMakr for Windows Phone 7! Place Ad Control SDK using AppMakr and get FREE access to the MarketPlace!
  280. Taxes, It’s that time again: The Truth About Frivolous Tax Arguments
  281. Free Microsoft Certification Exam for students, limited in number and the bad news
  282. WebMatrix: UserVoice Helper
  283. Artificial Intelligence will eat your brain, you could live forever
  284. WebMatrix: OData Helper
  285. Alfred Thompson reports that Object Oriented Programming is dead
  286. Game engines, 2011, Looking for Silverlight game engines
  287. Web Matrix: PayPal Helper for WebMatrix
  288. WebMatrix: Groupon Helper, a fast easy way to make your web site useful for your audience!
  289. Japan earthquake: Before and after Bing Map
  290. XNA and Bing Map Geocoding
  291. Golden West College: Class assignment
  292. Which SmartPhone is best when the Internet goes down?
  293. Bing Map GeoCoding
  294. Rio Hondo Links and Things
  295. Japanese Earthquake, a monument to design excellence and a society that works together
  296. Random numbers, are they really random?
  297. Designing Web pages for Phones, especially the Windows Phone 7, free paper
  298. Using the Free, ABSOLUTELY FREE Live Essentials Movie Maker: A brief explanation and links
  299. Community Clips: One of the best and easiest FREE video screen capture available
  300. 70-511 Exam Guide: The ties that bind, BindingBase, Data Binding, MultiBinding, Binding Group
  301. 70-511, Exam Guide: Sorting Data
  302. 70-511, Exam Prep: Click Once Strategy, delivering your apps
  303. 70-511 Exam Guide: Windows Principal Object
  304. 70-511 Exam Prep: Validating Data in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control
  305. 70-511 Exam Guide: Deployment, Click Once and the Certificate Authority
  306. 70-511 Exam Guide: Threading Model, Dispatcher
  307. Translation tools for the developer, let me translate that… Development tools for language translation
  308. Exam 70-511: ActiveX and Windows Forms Control in WPF
  309. An excellent Windows Phone Application for students and hobbyists to get started developing!
  310. 70-511 Exam Guide: ApplicationSettingsBase Class
  311. Exam 70-511: Show the user the progress of a file download using a Background thread
  312. Excellent UML video learning links, really these are AWESOME and good use of time
  313. Exam 70-511: Stabilizing and Releasing a Solution
  314. Exam Study Guide 70-511:Managing Data at the User Interface Layer, Links
  315. Exam 70-511: Textbox, test wrapping and StackPanel
  316. WPF Exam Prep 70-511: What Stretch Properties to use with a Viewbox?
  317. Exam 70-511 Prep: Flow Documents in WPF
  318. Class notes from 2/2/2011, Golden West College
  319. Web Matrix: Microsoft product that is fast to download, fast to install and just works
  320. Advertisements for your Windows Phone 7 applications
  321. Free eBook! Windows Phone Game Programming For Beginners
  322. Super Successful Student Server!
  323. Thoughts on the Kinect hacks and iPad Hacks
  324. Can iPhones, Androids or Windows Phone 7 have security vulnerabilities?
  325. Linux, Apple or Windows: Security-Linux Loses the 3 month vulnerabilities listing
  326. Programming iPhone Apps or Programming Windows Phone 7 Apps, WinPhone7 Wins!
  327. WebMatrix, Visual Web Developer 2010, or Expression Web
  328. What I decided to do about blogging about exam 70-511, Kinect, XBox, Imagine Cup and USC
  329. Exam 70-511: Interoperability with legacy Code Access Security in Windows Presentation Foundation 4.0
  330. Exam 70-511: Implement security features in a WPF app: Software Restriction Policy (SRP)
  331. Free Exam Guide 70-511, WPF: ContextMenu as a Static Resource
  332. XAML in the Windows Phone 7 default application
  333. Quantum Computing at University of California, Santa Barbara
  334. Windows Phone Games: Exploring the State Management project, “Go To Definition”
  335. Win Phone Apps: Role-Playing Game for Phone!
  336. Phone Apps: Making Money

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  1. Free Exam Prep: 70-511: Using the SetResourceReference
  2. Free Exam Guide 70-511: Resources Programmatically
  3. Video for the previous post on Static Resources
  4. Free Study Guide for Exam 70-511: Defining Static resources
  5. Free Study Guide for the Windows Presentation Framework exam 70-511: Items Control
  6. Orchard a free, open source, community-focused project for ASP.NET modules
  7. Free Study Guide for the Windows Presentation Framework exam 70-511: Headered Content Control
  8. “Web Designers and Developers are one group least complained about” Angie’s List
  9. Happy Holidays: Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all!
  10. Free Study Guide for the Windows Presentation Framework exam 70-511: Grid, one of the derived Panel Classes
  11. Free Study Guide for the Windows Presentation Framework exam 70-511: StackPanel, one of the derived Panel Classes
  12. Free Bitly Tweeter: A great idea from Dan Waters
  13. Free Study Guide for the Windows Presentation Framework exam 70-511: Canvas, one of the derived Panel Classes
  14. Study Guide for the Windows Presentation Framework exam 70-511
  15. Free for all: Comma Delimited files, Excel Transpose, Programmer Calculator with a Hex thrown in
  16. Free information on how secure your code: Prism and Windows Phone 7
  17. Data Structures: Creating Isolated Storage Files and Directories
  18. Free Tools: Getting started with XNA and Windows Phone 7 Game Design
  19. New Features in C# 2010: Covariance and Contravariance and List<T>
  20. Part 6, More on List<T>: Removing an item from Windows Phone 7
  21. Free Kinect Information: Microsoft Diversity versus Apple stores Sterility
  22. Part 5-Data Structures and PathFinder app: List<T>, structs and AI
  23. Data Structure: Part 4, Even More on List<T>, WRT Generics
  24. Free Books From Microsoft: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
  25. Data Structure: Part 3, More on List<T>, let’s shoot for Windows Phone 7
  26. Data Structures in Game Design: Part 2, List<T> or Arrays
  27. Phone Applications: Databound applications and how to use them
  28. Silverlight: Using the learning from the Phone From Scratch tutorial, AppHub
  29. Silverlight: Windows Phone From Scratch, good tutorial for all
  30. Game Design: Net Rumble in an academic paper?
  31. Artificial Intelligence: BEER! XNA 4.0! Windows Phone 7! Bing Maps!
  32. Artificial Intelligence: Language selection
  33. Artificial Intelligence appears to be a poor choice for Windows Phone 7 design blogs
  34. Artificial Intelligence: Graphs, PathFinder and the Windows Phone 7
  35. Windows Phone 7: AI, Pathfinding and working with the images
  36. Working with the Pathfinder example for the Windows Phone 7
  37. Windows Phone 7 and Artificial Intelligence
  38. X90B: Bing Map Win Phone 7 Push Pins, fast and easy
  39. Secret Communications X30M: Is it really that hard to put some Bing Map pushpins on Windows Phone 7?
  40. Secret Communications X025P: Popfly code on Windows Phone 7?
  41. Secret Communications X017Z: Adding buttons on your Bing Map
  42. Secret Communications X016Y: Connecting MS Access to a Bing Map
  43. Secret Communications X017Y: Error: "Visual Studio 2010 Could Not Create Connection"
  44. Secret Communications X020Y: I had this entry tee’d up about EBay
  45. Secret Communications X015Y: Bing Map App SDK, game design using Bing Maps? Really?
  46. Secret Communications X014Y: Creating Bing Map Apps, working with Lat, Long
  47. Secret Communications X012Y: Using the Bing Map API in the Mobile Map Example
  48. Secret Communications X010Y: Get the no cost eBook on programming Windows Phone 7
  49. Super Secret Communications X008Y: Oh crud, I got to catch up on reporting…
  50. Super Secret Communications X007Y: Using Sprite Sheet Images
  51. Secret Communications X005Y: SharePoint versions
  52. Super Secret Communications X004Y: Game design considerations
  53. Super Secret Communications, X002Y: Imagine Cup Games
  54. Super Secret Communications X003Y: SharePoint Links
  55. Super Secret Communications to Imagine Cup Teams, X001Y: SharePoint Workflows
  56. Internet Explorer 9: Passes the Acid test! Check it out
  57. Being Abstract: Abstract Classes
  58. Imagine Cup 2011: Creating a project plan, part 5 of a few
  59. Imagine Cup 2011: Creating a project plan, part 3 of a few
  60. Imagine Cup 2011: Creating a project plan part 2 of a few
  61. Imagine Cup 2011: Creating a project plan part 1 of a few
  62. Imagine Cup: The First Lady Speaks at the Final Ceremony
  63. Imagine Cup 2010: Cool Projects, how do you get started on Imagine Cup 2011
  64. Imagine Cup 2010: Saturday Morning, Remembering the Poland Ghetto
  65. Imagine Cup in Poland day 1
  66. Simply Using Matrixes in your projects
  67. Slightly different: C-language programming in Visual Studio 2010
  68. Video on how to build your first phone app/game
  69. XNA 4.0: Planet Boy responds to multi-touch on the Win Phone emulator
  70. XNA 4.0 & Win Phone: Fixing that mouse start up state
  71. XNA 4.0: Moving PinkGirl around using the mouse
  72. BoundingBox.Intersects versus rectangle.Intersect
  73. Random thoughts on Randomness
  74. Character Pink Girl? XNA 4.0? This could be your first Windows Phone Program
  75. Consuming a hosted Web Service using Visual Studio, specifically VWD 2010

2009 48

  1. Web Services: Posted and views a Web Service from a hosted web site
  2. Taking it up a notch: Saying Thank You for that XBox you got for Christmas
  3. Saying thank you for getting your XBox
  4. You got the XBox, and now you want to put a simple game on it!
  5. Back to building games: Creating models, 2D assets using free software (at least for non-commercial academic purposes)
  6. Lua and Love: A match made with Visual Studio and the CLR
  7. Games, games, games: Methods
  8. Using Functions in C#
  9. Brain Freeze: Thinking about beginning programming classes
  10. Brain Freeze: Rethinking curriculum for beginning programmers
  11. VSTS 2010: Using the Directed Graph Diagram part 1 of however many I do till I get distracted again
  12. VS 2010 Game Design: For RPG with Deconstruction and Destruction
  13. UML: Software Engineering Institute, Game Design guidance
  14. UML: OMG and SEI
  15. UML: Use Cases, relationships Part 4
  16. UML: Use Case Part 3
  17. UML: Use Case Models part 1
  18. UML IS BACK IN VISUAL STUDIO 2010
  19. Have a happy 4th of July! Be Safe!
  20. XNA: Using Fonts in XNA 3.1
  21. Back to building DLLs: Determining if a class is abstract or public
  22. Halo 3 blamed for killing of parents in 2007
  23. Links for Game Dev, VS 2010, Win7 Dev & Win7 Administration, with a touch of Workflow
  24. DLL: Creating Objects or Concrete Classes
  25. DLLs: Create an Abstract Class the Derive a Class
  26. DLLs: Important stuff, and questions about Angelina Jolie’s use of DLLs
  27. Building Mobile Games: Building a garage (DLL) for your stuff (classes)
  28. Graphics programming on the Windows Mobile 6.0
  29. Using cultural forces to illustrate physics: the new Star Trek Movie, the XNA Racing Game and a equation of a spring
  30. New Game on the Creators Site! Zune game, with music!
  31. The physics of Avatars
  32. The physics of the motorized barstool
  33. Interesting console game: Motorized Barstool
  34. Programming languages: C# versus F#, building AI and Physics
  35. FUN: Use UML to map your great game idea design processes
  36. Back to the finite state discussion
  37. San Diego State University: 5 minute pong demo
  38. Building a Game: The Model, View, Controllers approach
  39. WOW: Creating a finite state machine in BASIC and Lua
  40. WOW: Artificial Intelligence, state machines
  41. WOW: Lua, World of Warcraft and AI
  42. WOW: Comparing WOW AddOn creation tools
  43. WOW: WOW AddonStudio
  44. WOW: Developing WOW applications using Visual Studio Shell
  45. What is good subject material? Courts have made the decision
  46. Game Idea: Galileo’s Conspiracy
  47. Game ideas
  48. Kodu is coming soon!

2008 16

  1. Why start game design by using Popfly to do your design?
  2. So you got an XBox for Christmas and you want to build games for it!
  3. Jobs in computer science or information science appear to be solid!
  4. Build cool Yuletide Gifts for your Friends, Family and others: Learning how to move things around Part 2
  5. Build fun games for gifts for your friends and family!
  6. Installing XNA 3.0 Game Studio getting ready to build a Christmas Gift!
  7. Error Handling or Exception Handling
  8. Using XNA
  9. Creating a web presence, part 2
  10. Creating a web presence
  11. What you need to get to start on Web and Video/Console Game Design
  12. Sam Stokes writes about XNA development
  13. Zune: Getting your Zune software ready to load a game
  14. New Zune Review: Create games on the Zune
  15. Pong in 5 Minutes and a careful analysis of Point
  16. Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, or just change the curriculum?

2007 13

  1. Code Snippets: Again with the code snippets
  2. Pong: The adventure begins again, join in NOW, ADD Graphics
  3. Code Snippets for PONG: part 70 of gazillion
  4. Building an XNA Game part 300 of a gazillion or so parts
  5. Building an XNA Game that will run on XBox, part 4 of gazillion
  6. The Imagine Cup: Imagine That!
  7. Building an XNA Game part 2 of a gazillion or so parts
  8. Building an XNA game and having fun!
  9. Getting into Game Design
  10. Escape Velocity, Artificial Intelligence and Space Aliens
  11. Artificial Intelligence: Fixing the Education system
  12. Artificial Intelligence in games: Looking at Turing's first article on machine intelligence
  13. Having fun with Artificial Intelligence

2006 1

  1. Computer related jobs for college graduates in the US