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  1. "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 9 dev, who happened to read and realized it would be great of the Coding4Fun blog. Got to love...
  2. Hello Channel 9 and Hello Kinect

    When a new Niner makes their first post about the Kinect, well that's got to be highlighted! Everyone say hello to Amanda Lange and check out her first video... Link Removed Link Removed In this entry I'm going to discuss Kinect and how to get started. There's a ton of resources on Kinect...
  3. Coding4Fun Second Quarter 2015 Round-Up

    June is the quite before the storm month. With Windows 10 and related items coming out next month, well July and August are going to be exciting months! Coding4Fun Blog Small Basic Gets a Not So Small Update... v1.1 Intel Galileo V2 and You Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 Retargeting Extension...
  4. Hello Face API...

    Today's series comes from Coding4Fun Friend, Bruno Capuano, where he shows off one of our favorite subjects, facial recognition, with a cloud twist. Bruno is showing off Microsoft's Project Oxford, Face API's and how you can get started using them. First, Project Oxford? Link Removed Welcome...
  5. Hello Face API...

    Today's series comes from Coding4Fun Friend, Bruno Capuano, where he shows off one of our favorite subjects, facial recognition, with a cloud twist. Bruno is showing off Microsoft's Project Oxford, Face API's and how you can get started using them. First, Project Oxford? Link Removed Welcome...
  6. Coding4Fun First Quarter 2015 Round-Up

    I look back on this past quarter and kind of say, "wow." So much has been released, there was so much news that even with this round-up, it's hard to grok it all. Then I try to imagine what the NEXT quarterly round-up, post BUILD/Ignite, will look like [Brain Explodes]... Coding4Fun Blog...
  7. Getting Going with Kinect v2 Development

    Mike Taulty, long time Coding4Fun Friend, recently presented at a London Kinect Hack Event on how to quickly get started developing with the Kinect for Windows v2. Lucky for us, he's shared it with us...; Here are just a few times we've highlighted Mike's work; Just face it... with these two...
  8. Example Channel9 Blog Reader App

    Today's project is cool fan created Windows 8.1 app for an area near and dear to my heart... Link Removed Introduction The app tutorial for Windows Blog Reader at msdn.com is out of date, the feed links don't work, and there are some other unknown problems. To Address that problem, I took...
  9. Windows 7 Philips Hue Lighting Controller

    Link RemovedSo Philips recently introduced their Hue Connected Bulbs: an easy-to-use set of LED light bulbs and Wi-Fi connected bridge which allows you to dynamically change the color of your home lighting using their iOS or Android app. What’s particularly cool is that the bridge has a web API...
  10. Windows 7 Jellybean, the Kinect Drivable Lounge Chair

    You saw it at Mix—in typical fashion, our mission was to build two Jellybean robots in three weeks for the Mix keynote; no pressure, right?—and now it's time to introduce Project Jellybean on Coding4Fun. So, here it is—the Kinect drivable lounge chair! The lounge chair has Omni-directional...
  11. Windows 7 Setting Up Your Development Environment

    This video covers how to set up your development environment. You may find it easier to follow along by downloading the Link Removed. [Link Removed] Sample Requirements [Link Removed] Starting the Demo [Link Removed] Adding References [Link Removed] Coding4Fun Kinect Library [Link Removed]...
  12. Windows 7 Clint Rutkas and "Where's My Car" on Windows Phone 7

    Windows Phone has proven to be a popular platform for developing a wide variety of applications. Clint Rutkas joins us on this episode to explain what "Coding4Fun" is, and how they help provide cool tools, apps, and resources to aid people in their development projects. In addition to talking in...
  13. Windows 7 TWC9: Expression Web SP1 adds HTML5 support, New Events section, Task.Show

    This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:32] Charles Torre - Link Removed on Channel 9 [01:44] Expression Web SP1 includes IE9 support including Super Preview, HTML code view support, and CSS 3 [02:34] Duncan Mackenzie - New Link Removed...
  14. Windows 7 TWC9: Recap of VS 2010 SP1, IE9 RTW set for Mar 14, Hack your house & cockroaches

    This Week on Channel 9, Dan Fernandez is joined by Clint Rutkas to discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:35] Somasegar: Link Removed including VS 2010 Service Pack 1, TFS-Project Server Integration Feature Pack, Load Test Feature Pack, and LightSwitch Beta 2 [01:01] Jason...
  15. Windows 7 TWC9: WP7 gets multi-tasking,NuGet 1.1, MJPEG Decoder, Reflector

    This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Link Removed to discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:25] Windows Phone 7 Announcements at Mobile World Congress [02:57] Window Azure Team -Link Removed, includes performance enhancements, improved diagnostic, cache size option, and...
  16. Windows 7 TWC9: Coding4Fun, DevLabs projects, XAMLQuery, VS Achievements

    This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:32] Coding4Fun is now on Channel 9,including blog posts, articles, and projects, and friend of the show Greg Duncan will be a contributing blogger [01:45] Coding4Fun - Link Removed and the...
  17. Windows 7 Coding4Fun On Channel9!

    Coding4Fun is where we show off fun and cool open source hardware and software projects. We know there are lots of developers who code for fun, not just for their jobs and with this in mind, we want to show off the cool work developers can do when they combine smarts and passion. Our projects...
  18. Windows 7 TWC9: AutoTune.NET, Portable Libraries, Facebook + Azure, SQLR2 BI,

    This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including [01:56s] Don Burnett - Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook enables you to build Facebook applications using Windows Azure [02:34s] Yochay Kiriaty - Windows Push Notification Server Side Helper Library...
  19. VIDEO TWC9: VS2010 SP1 Beta, , Native Extensions for Silverlight, EF Code First

    This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Clint Rutkas to discuss the week's top developer news, including: [watch] Jason Zander - Link Removed (Link Removed) includes a local Help viewer, unit testing for .NET 3.5, Performance wizard for Silverlight and more [watch] Adam Kinney - A new series...
  20. Windows 7 TWC9: New Features in Silverlight 5, VB for WP7, Okapi, and Movember

    This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are reunited to discuss the week’s top developer news, including: [watch] Link Removed – Newly announced features includes GPU Accelerated 3D, Immediate mode graphics, Trick play (play up to 2x speed), custom markup extensions, and out-of-browser features...