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My first computer was a XT that was a 8 megahertz cpu, with a 20-meg FM hard-drive. Now I run 2 towers. My better is a i5 quad-core with 16 gigs ram, 7870 chipset videocard. My first car was a 1963 Chevy Canso, with a 194 six-cylinder engine. ....now I'm rebuilding a car I bought last year...

The final post for the VS Code Theme week comes from the man, the myth, the legend in his own mind :) Link Removed. Given it's Hardware Friday and VS Code week, how can we mesh these two together? Maybe a little Arduino development with VS Code? Yeah, that's the ticket! Link...

Continuing with our Hardware Event Theme, it's Windows 10 Band Day! Link Removed, whom we usually highlight for his cool Kinect projects, a couple months ago wrote up this nice Windows 10 UWP Microsoft Band example... Link Removed Although very simple I thought this was worth blogging as I...

Our last Windows 10 Theme Week post, we turn to Friend of the Blog, Mike Taulty and his two recent posts about Windows 10, Sphero 2 and Raspberry PI 2 (and Windows 8.1 Lib, WinPhone and PC) Link Removed It’s been a while since I played with my Sphero device and so I thought I’d see if I could...

Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool 2016 is a tool that helps in finding threats in the design phase of software projects. Link Removed

Last week Steve Teixeira shared the latest information and news on Windows 10 IoT core and a very IoT Starter Kit... What’s next for Windows 10 IoT Core Back in early August I was pleased to announce the Windows Insider release of Windows 10 IoT Core, a version of Windows 10 targeted towards...

It's sort of like Homegroup on Windows 7, minus the Microsoft limitations. It works by connecting through SSH and you build a personal space for your settings and programs and files you want to share or access remotely to others. It can be developed on using Python, C++, C#, Java, Python...

It's been a while since we've highlighted one of the cooler learning to program tools, so when I saw Rachel McCollin's recent post, Introduction to Scratch, I knew I had today's project. You've all heard of Scratch? Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own...

Feedback Client for TFS can help your development team gather both solicited and unsolicited feedback about your software projects, from your customers and other stakeholders. Link Removed

With summer coming to an end it's not too early to start queuing up projects for the kids, young and old, for Thanksgiving and Winter break. :) Phillip Trelford recently released a cool new library that is meant to help speed and simplify creating graphic apps and games. a library that is just...

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...

The code can be brought down from this git repository: https://github.com/drcrook1/ProjectTeddy/tree/master/TeddyDemoSolution Link Removed - Introduction Link Removed - Visual Studio 2015 Link Removed - Create new Database Project Link Removed - Create Tweets Table Link Removed - Create...

Visual Studio 2015 is out and for all your Arduino makers, the Visual Micro Arduino for Visual Studio 2015 [Beta] is now out too! Link Removed This Extension requires Visual Studio C++ to be installed before projects can be created or opened Beta release of the Arduino Ide for Visual Studio...

We’re pleased to announce a new open source library for integrating Facebook into your Windows apps. The Windows SDK for Facebook is geared towards app developers creating Universal Windows apps on both desktop and phone. The SDK supports universal Windows app for Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 8.1...

Just a couple weeks ago we highlighted Link Removed with a getting started post, Hello Face API... Now how about a web site that uses the same API, one that went viral during Build 2015? Hello Link Removed (and it's sibling, Link Removed)! Link Removed posted the story behind Link Removed...

This project is off to a great start and something I think we should keep an eye on... Link Removed I am working on a proof of concept standalone mobile 3D Scanner. Hopefully it will be possible to use a Raspberry Pi2 for this project. I have already posted a video on youtube. And some...

Today Dwight Goins shares a great example on using one of the coolest features of the Kinect v2, heart rate detection... Link Removed When the latest Kinect sensor was unveiled more than a year ago at Build 2014, demos showed how it could determine a user’s heart rate without attaching...

The previous video showed Visual Studio Code with a NodeJS project. In this video we take a look at working with an ASP.NET 5 project in Visual Studio Code. Link Removed - Task runners (building ASP.NET 5 projects) Link Removed - Launching an ASP.NET application Link Removed - Adding a...

Instead of extending Visual Studio, today I'm going to highlight a new extensibility target, extending Visual Studio Online (VSO). Link Removed, Visual Studio ALM Microsoft MVP has written up a great Hello VSO World tutorial, taking you from New Project through deployment of your new VSO...

I did find something cool! A couple weeks ago I said I wouldn't post anything more about the Microsoft Band (unless I found something really cool). Well today's project is officially cool! How could you not think Paul DeCarlo's recent project RPi + WinPhone + MS Band + Azure + Excel +...