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December 07 2008
At the very last minute before Scott left for Africa, Dan Fernandez and I were able to do a quick episode of Hanselminutes to promote our book. Have a listen to learn a bit more about our book, the projects it contains, how they were developed, and some issues… read moreCoding4Fun Book News and Preview
November 29 2008
I received my first copy of the book on Friday afternoon and it looks great! It is now also listed as “In Stock” on Amazon. Additionally, there is now a Google Preview of the book If you’d like to see a preview of the book, you can do so by… read moreHead Banger Is Now Available on Xbox LIVE Community Games
November 29 2008
Several friends and I work together to write “indie” video games under the brand Ganksoft Entertainment. You may recall that for Maker Faire 2007, we created a very simple rhythm-based music game (think Rock Band or Dance Dance Revolution) using XNA called Head Banger. With Microsoft’s official release of… read moreAnimated Musical Holiday Lights at TVUG
November 15 2008
I’ll be presenting a session on building your own holiday musical light show using Phidget boards and .NET at this month’s Tech Valley User Group. I’ve previously written an article about this topic on the Coding4Fun site, and there will be a full chapter on this in our upcoming… read moreWiiEarthVR Article and Source Code Posted
November 14 2008
I previously talked about my WiiEarthVR project shown at PDC project, and now I have posted the article for the application up at the Coding4Fun site. Full source code is available. You’ll need some hardware to make this go, namely a Wiimote, Nunchuk, Wii Fit Balance Board and a pair… read moreNovember 13 2008
A new version of my managed Wiimote library for .NET has been released. You can find version 1.6 up at CodePlex now. The changes are as follows: v1.6.0.0 Added "center of gravity" calculation to the Wii Fit Balance Board (thanks to SJB) Structs are now marked [Serializable] (suggested by… read moreNovember 11 2008
We finally have an official cover! This is likely exciting to no one but me (and Dan)… Dan and I are working on the very final round of edits and formatting. The book goes to the printer next week and it should be available the first week of December… read moreNovember 02 2008
While at PDC2008 we shot an episode of This Week on Channel 9. If you feel the need to waste 13 minutes of your life on a PDC recap with me, Dan Fernandez, Scott Hanselman and Clint Rutkas, then this is the video for you. I have embedded the video… read moreOctober 31 2008
Well, PDC2008 is over. I had a lot of fun, met a ton of interesting and fun people, and learned about a lot of exciting new technologies. I hope to make it back out there next year. Our PDC2008 session video has been posted up at Channel 9 along with… read moreCoding4Fun Book Chapter Teaser for PDC
October 30 2008
At PDC2008 we have been giving away printouts of our first chapter and table of contents for our new book, “Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More” to anyone who drops by the Coding4Fun area. We ran out of copies early today, so… read moreOctober 24 2008
Time to talk a little bit about my PDC demo… About a year ago, I wrote an application to control Virtual Earth 3D with the Wiimote named WiiEarth and a corresponding Coding4Fun article on how it was done. Since that time VE3D has been updated several times and code changes… read moreOctober 15 2008
Anyone heading out to PDC2008 this year? I will be in attendance with (hopefully!) a new Wiimote project and perhaps a few old ones as well. More details on that when the project is a tiny bit further. We will also be giving away a free chapter of our… read moreA Few New WiimoteLib Applications
October 15 2008
I’ve received information on a few spiffy Wiimote projects using my Managed Wiimote Library in the last couple weeks that everyone should check out… Wiimote Tracking System Using 3 Wiimotes by Nikolai This project uses 2 Wiimotes as cameras and a 3rd covered in IR LEDs to create a tracking… read moreSeptember 12 2008
Thanks to everyone that attended my VSLive NY session. I hope it was informative. I have posted the slide-decks and source code for both of my sessions so you can tinker with the projects on your own. Creating a Simple 2D Game Using XNA Game Studio to Run on a… read moreSeptember 05 2008
Now that we have finished writing the book, we finally have an official title and chapter listing. Someday we may even have a cover. The title has morphed into Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More and the final chapter listing (not necessarily in… read moreHire Brian Peek
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