MaKey MaKey – An Invention Kit for Everyone

See the Kickstarter for this project to get a MaKey MaKey of your own. This is a simple invention kit for beginners, experts, and everything inbetween.

Find out more on http://makeymakey.com/

Indie Game: The Movie (trailer)

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Indie Game: The Movie is a feature documentary about video games, their creators and the craft. The film follows the dramatic journeys of indie game developers as they create their games, and as they release those works, and themselves, to the world.

Indie Game: The Movie is about making video games, but at its core, it’s about the creative process and exposing yourself through your work.

This trailer and the film features: Edmund McMillen & Tommy Refenes (supermeatboy.com) Phil Fish (polytroncorporation.com)  and Jonathan Blow (braid-game.com)

Find out more on www.indiegamethemovie.com or via www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/

Microsoft Holoflector

Holoflector is a unique, interactive augmented-reality mirror. Graphics are superimposed correctly on your own reflection to enable a novel augmented-reality experience. Presented at Microsoft TechForum 2012, Holoflector leverages the combined abilities of Kinect and Windows Phone to infer the position of your phone and render graphics that seem to hover above it.

 

ASP.NET Web API

ASP.NET Web API is a framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API is an ideal platform for building RESTful applications on the .NET Framework.

Can’t wait for the full version of MVC 4! :-)

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How to test an SQL Server connection

1. Create a new empty text document (.txt) on your pc. (e.g.: on your desktop)
2. Rename it to X.UDL
3. Double click the file to open the Data Link Properties
4. Select the correct provider on the [Provider] tabpage
   Fill in your connection details on the [Connection] tabpage
5. Click [OK] to close the Data Link Properties window when you have a succesful connection (via [Test Connection])
6. Now open the X.UDL with your favorite text editor (e.g.: notepad, notepad++)
   You should see your connection string now!

Supermarket API

Supermarket API is the First Robust Open Source API for the Grocery industry.

Some of the methods it has.

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Hobbits would make great programmers

The “Lord of the Rings” characters embody what Wall sees as the three virtues of good programmers: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

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JsFiddle: a playground for web developers

Today I came across a great website for testing JavaScript. It’s a place where you can test, edit and share code and even debug code from other people.

JsFiddleis a playground for web developers, a tool which may be used in many ways. One can use it as an online editor for snippets build from HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The code can then be shared with others, embedded on a blog, etc. Using this approach, JavaScript developers can very easily isolate bugs. We aim to support all actively developed frameworks – it helps with testing compatibility

Have fun

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Visual Studio Achievements

A software engineer’s glory so often goes unnoticed. Attention seems to come either when there are bugs or when the final project ships. But rarely is a developer appreciated for all the nuances and subtleties of a piece of code–and all the heroics it took to write it.  With Visual Studio Achievements Beta, your talents are recognized as you perform various coding feats, unlock achievements and earn badges.

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