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Silverlight game design review: Clear Breeze Design
I admit it, I am a lazy programmer. What can I say, if I find someone else that does a good...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/22/2011
Pong updated for XNA 4.0 video: Starting, adding classes, and code
The code snippets and wonderful art work can be found at https://bit.ly/csudhpong . In this video,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/22/2011
Amazon Cloud Outage caused by network error
Ok, switching to troll mode. Wow, Amazon reports that it is a network error. That’s...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/22/2011
Practical use of Artificial Intelligence: Making Beer
Practical use of Artificial Intelligence: Making Beer In other articles I have discussed artificial...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/22/2011
Internet browser security: On April 21, 2011 Chrome is a loser
According to the NIST.GOV, as of 4/21/2011, the security bugs in browsers for the past three months...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/21/2011
Research: Kinect for Windows SDK beta
For natural user interface researchers this is good news! To be able to utilize the Kinect for...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/21/2011
Research: What is Automated Reasoning
If we are going to discuss software engineering over time, then we got to start with the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/20/2011
University of Wisconsin, Madison finds GIANT number of security bugs during Windows 7 production
In a paper titled: Incremental Compositional Dynamic Test Generation, researchers from the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/20/2011
Research: Programming Theorems, learning about Theorems, and applying Theorems, take two
Wow, that title covered a bunch of stuff. But I bet Alfred Thompson wishes he had found this...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/19/2011
Online Programming Tools from Microsoft Research: Z3, where do you use it?
Z3 may bring back memories of Modula-2, and it should there are a number of similarities. Z3...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/18/2011
Expression Blend at Mix 11
The Expression Group has been improving the quality of the tutorials and other infrastructure around...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/14/2011
Online programming tools from Microsoft Research
Research is doing some interesting things and here they are. Also, these projects are quite...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/14/2011
Silverlight 5 Top Beta features
Top Beta Features XAML Debugging with breakpoints for binding debugging Implicit data templates for...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/14/2011
Silverlight 5: Get the latest beta and watch the video!
What do you need to install or download for Silverlight 5 Beta? First you are required to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/14/2011
Windows Phone 7: Write programs on your Windows Phone 7
Ok, it isn’t Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, but it is a way to write programs directly on your Windows...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/14/2011
Using Facebook, Live and other technologies in your application
Facebook can be used in your application by using the code found at https://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/13/2011
Imagine Cup: What I entered into the Bing Contest for $10,000 potential prize
Ok, I really can’t win, but I did this video for the XTRANORMAL movie festival sponsored by...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/13/2011
Imagine Cup: Software Design Winners—Notetaker from Arizona State
Arizona State WINS the Software Design contest, here is a virtual discussion about NoteTaker: For...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/13/2011
Imagine Cup 2011: An interview
This is a video created using XTRANORMAL, somewhat expensive, about a dollar per video, but I think...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/13/2011
Imagine Cup: US Finals, Day of Judging!
The Day of Judging, wow, that sounds so final. The run up to the Day of Judging...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/09/2011
FREE SDK: Microsoft Research Imagine Cup briefing about Windows Phone Apps and Cloud Technology, Project Hawaii
Windows Phone 7 is well suited to front end cloud based applications, and Microsoft Research has...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/08/2011
Kinect: Researcher briefs the ADEs at the Imagine Cup
Stewart Tansley gave a briefing on Kinect SDK for Windows that will come out later in the year....
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/08/2011
Imagine Cup: The ADE team prepares for the event
Friday, the Academic Developer Evangelist (ADE) team meets to discuss what their roles will be over...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/08/2011
F# online: Have you wanted to experiment with a functional language?
Science and engineering uses a different approach to programming than computer science. In...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/08/2011
Free Azure access code for Web Matrix users: Free Azure Code
Link: www.windowsazurepass.com Code: WRAC11 Let’s discuss creating a helper to assist with...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/06/2011
Exam Prep 70-511: XAML Hierarchical Binding to code
Well CRO and Armando are getting their posterior kicked, the secret of hierarchical binding to code...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/06/2011
Free Exam Guide 70--511: XAML, DataTemplates, Window.Resources and comix galore
CRO is just not use to working with XAML, there are three things you need to keep in mind when...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/06/2011
F#: Really briefly, for today
F#, What the heck is F#? First of all it is a functional language that supports Object...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/05/2011
Exam Prep 70-511: Binding more and more
Looks like CRO hasn’t been sleeping well lately, he’s grumpy. Tonight let’s see how the gang...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/05/2011
Exam Guide 70-511: SuperSimpleBinding
Windows Forms or WPF. Rebecca, the manager wants to try out WPF, but CRO doesn’t agree. (And...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/04/2011
Exam Guide: Binding to Hierarchical Data using TreeViews
Rebecca, your manager, has asked that you create a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/04/2011
Web Matrix: Chat can be boring, some ideas from the past
Wow, chat can be really boring, blah blah, slow typing, little or no visual input for most chat...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/04/2011
Free Training in person for Azure Cloud by the homerun hitters: Bruno Terkaly and Rob Bagby!
Please, if you can attend, please get signed up now for the awesome event on what the cloud is all...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/04/2011
Free Anti-Virus, from Microsoft, I use the Microsoft Security Essentials for my home computers!
Hey, got a new computer? Want to put a world class anti-virus on the machine? You can...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/01/2011
Links to Mystery SDKSamples for the Data Binding How-To Topics
Currently I am trying to put together my brain around the XAML databinding in a structured manner...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/31/2011
Summary of Links to Exam 70-511 Study Guide
Well I figured out that I need to get organized around the Exam 70-511 Study Guide. Before I...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/31/2011
Handholding approach to programming, or as it is sometimes called: Extreme Programming
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/31/2011
ComboBox: Binding data to the ComboBox using INotifyPropertyChanged
I am using Visual Studio C# Express for this example, the better debugging tool is Visual Studio...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/30/2011
How to: Create a Simple Binding, reviewing the article on MSDN
An example article, if you read the article for Framework 4.0, would be: How to: Create a Simple...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/29/2011
Free SEO toolkit! Free tutorial on SEO! Free analysis tool!
Visual Studio is offering a free SEO toolkit! Go immediately to the link:...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/29/2011
PLINQ: Parallel LINQ
Oh heck, I just got use to SQL, as in the Sequential Query Language, then LINQ came along and now...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/28/2011
{Dev:unplugged} contest: You can win $40,000 for entering this contest and submitting an HTML5 based project
Also, You can win an ASUS Eee Slate just by registering. WOW! Maybe I will do a few blogs on...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/28/2011
Why aren’t robot pets more popular?
I just got back from blowing $160 on food for the latest addition to the family, Katey, that was...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/26/2011
Object oriented programming is dead! Long Live Object Oriented Programming, ramblings about the past
Well it’s been an interesting week, Carnegie-Mellon declares Object Oriented Programming dead, my...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/26/2011
3D Graphics: Blender or SoftImage?
Blender has real issues, it is hard for many people to use easily. It is open source and has a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/25/2011
WebMatrix: URL Shortener on your site
Everyone loves a URL Shortener, and if you work it right, URL Shortener’s can add traffic to your...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/25/2011