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Free Azure toolkit for Windows Phone 7
To get everything you need to to utilize the Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7, the items you need...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/14/2011
Learning how to Develop Windows 7 Applications using VC++
If you are taking one of the classes based on Dietel and Dietel, you might wonder: Does it really...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/14/2011
MFC Windows Development, is it a waste of time?
I am conflicted about MFC Windows Development, other than keeping the tools designers focused on...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/13/2011
Alfred Thompson: Is he correct about the importance of having an app, etc. that you can point at?
Check out Alfred Blog over at:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/12/2011
Skype, Lync, Unified Communication
For Skype webcast see:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/12/2011
SCRUM: Microsoft Guidelines
If you are using SCRUM, likely you are using one of the excellent books out there to help with your...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/11/2011
Free Mathematics Add-in for Word (including the “free” Word) and One Note
What the heck? If my trail version of Office times out and I just move to the free version of...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/10/2011
Agile programming or SCRUM programming?
An online friend of mine, Tamer, you can see his profile at...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/10/2011
HTML 5: How to use the canvas
Canvas seems to be a big deal with HTML 5, and quite rightly so, canvas is an important part of game...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/10/2011
Skype acquisition by Microsoft
I got nothing on this one other than take a look at the press pass at:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/10/2011
Windows Phone 7: Videos on how to build Silverlight games on Windows Phone 7
Silverlight Game Development for Windows Phone 7 (Part 1 of 6): System Setup and Tools...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/09/2011
Silverlight 5 Games: Looking around at the early bloggers
I would write a post with code, etc. except the numbers from those kinds of posts are usually...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/09/2011
Silverlight 5: Implicit Data Templates
I have just watched the video that I embedded here, and it is a great way to get started with...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/08/2011
Free learning kit for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0
Taking a break from my work on communicating with space aliens and starship design (see earlier...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/08/2011
Free for educators and STEM-D students! A scratchpad for your musical ideas: SongSmith
SongSmith, this is cool beans, no kidding. If you are thinking about writing music as a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/08/2011
When you develop projects you need to stick with it: NASA Gravity Probe B, 52 years in the making!
Wow! 52 years to get this experiment to confirm the Theory of Relativity completed. Wow!...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/06/2011
Request for Information: 100 YEAR STARSHIP™ STUDY, due to DARPA by June 3, 2011
Oh, yeah, an RFI from DARPA. I know, I can be a crazy guy in my blog, but I saw this today and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/05/2011
Microsoft software development tool released for direct use on Linux and Mac (Apple)
Well, the software development tool that was released is F#, and it was released a few years ago, so...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/05/2011
If you are 9-17, WIN $5,000 for designing a Kodu game by May 10, 2011
Winning! Yes that right, you can be a winner! Simply follow the instructions at Alfred...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/05/2011
The Osama Bin Laden picture virus: a real threat or phony
With the announcement that Osama Bin Laden is dead, the scammers will likely pop up with social...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/04/2011
Silverlight Games: Add Images and use the mouse to move images
Moving images in Silverlight is pretty simple, the code works on the phone as well as on the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/03/2011
Is there a Visual Studio F# Express? Is there free stuff for F#?
I get that question infrequently, it is a good question though. And the strict answer is no,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/03/2011
XNA Game resources: Free sounds and music to use in your games
If you need Free sounds, music, 3D Graphics or 2D graphics, then you need to get these game...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/03/2011
Using the Windows Phone 7 Accelerometer simulator
If you don’t have access to a Windows Phone 7, it is difficult to figure out how to make a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/02/2011
Malware attack specifically targets Mac users, NIST reports 379 vulnerabilities over past 3 months, get your free anti-virus from Microsoft!
Seriously, I heard Leo Laporte (or is it LaPorte), on Saturday remark that viruses are usually...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/02/2011
Macros, Macros, Macros: What the heck is a Macro in MS Office products like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and others?
Now that I wrote a post about moving Macros from Word 2003 or Office XP, the conversation has...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/02/2011
Converting Word 2003 macros to Word 2010 (or 2007)
Normally, I write about things that make many people, including my boss, head explode. But...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/01/2011
Artificial Intelligence: What about space aliens and the software to communicate with them?
Ok, I should do a nice table here to show how C# compares to LISP, but I got off track reading...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/29/2011
HTML 5: Become an expert
Introduction: So you want to be an expert at HTML 5, good move. If you have worked with earlier...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/29/2011
Communicating with Space Aliens, a process similar to interoperability in software using Interfaces
Oh my gosh, looks like Sam has gone off the deep end again, maybe he is looking for a guest spot on...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/28/2011
HTML 5: Specification news! Latest specifications released!
HTML 5 Specifications current as of April 27, 2011 (the day this blog is posted) can be found at:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/27/2011
What’s new in Windows 7.5 (formerly Mango)
General stuff talked about elsewhere: Internet Explorer 9 coming to Windows Phone – with the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/27/2011
Coolness: 3D scanning using your PHONE!
Microsoft Research has come up with 3D scanning using your phone. Just think you could do a 3D...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/27/2011
Physics, Object oriented programming, Artificial Intelligence, Space Aliens and Students
Well with the post on communicating with space aliens, you might be thinking that I am having a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/27/2011
Pex4Fun: Create your own Coding Duel
This is soo cool, you can create your own coding duel and invite others to compete. It is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/26/2011
Artificial Intelligence: F# versus other languages, am I contradicting myself? And will the royal couple consider AI during the wedding?
Oh crud. I reposted an article that I had written a few years ago, and recommended C# as well...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/26/2011
F#: Edited articles with code
Don’t know about you, but I enjoy reading edited articles. Oops. This isn’t an edited...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/26/2011
Artificial Intelligence: What programming language should I learn to do Artificial Intelligence?
LISP? Visual Basic? VC++? C#? Something else like SNOBOL or Flowmatic (just kidding)... I would say...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/26/2011
F#: With a few lines of code entered into the powershell and analyze gigabytes of cloud data!
In the article: Parsing Log Files with F#, MapReduce and Windows Azure, Noah Gift discusses how to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/26/2011
Azure Cloud Outage caused by network error, egg on my face
Oh don’t you hate it when you are all smug and think you are right. Walk into the room to make...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/25/2011
Software Engineering: Success or no success, generally the schools aren’t going to be helpful
Hadar Ziv, at UC Irvine, in my opinion, is the teacher you want to get to know. His specialty is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/25/2011
Windows 7 Milestone! 350 million licenses sold!
This does not include the MSDNAA versions with are often (but not always) given away to students....
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/25/2011
Artificial Intelligence Tutorial: Video Games and Artificial Intelligence
This is an interesting tutorial, although it more like a reading and viewing of a slide deck and not...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/25/2011
Artificial Intelligence: Reflections on Turing’s "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
I have just finished reading "Computing Machinery And Intelligence" By A. M. Turing, and if you are...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/25/2011
What is Lync? How does it benefit you? And a mention of artificial intelligence
Inside of Microsoft we use a system called Lync for our phone, IM and collaboration. Take a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/25/2011
Silverlight game design: Here are few of the silverlight designs offered at Codeplex for you no cost use!
Frankly, I just want to create games. If the same process was used for word processing, every time I...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/24/2011
UML: Use Cases utilizing <>
In this blog post, no back story, just pure UML today. In this case “Create an Account”...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/24/2011
Anticryptography
I just got my aluminum hat tuned up. Communicating with an unknown recipient is something fasinates...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/23/2011