Now that we have our basic interactions working the way we want, it’s time to add some game logic. We’ll do this by: Refactoring the game logic into a Game class and adding a “Level” class that will encapsulate the…
Starting from the last post in this brief series on XAML UI for Metro style apps, we’re ready to enable user input. Before doing this, I wanted to add a few sounds to the application. To do this, I used…
I thought it would be fun to make a game for the Windows developer preview. So, as an exercise in simplicity, I decided to go for a game that loosely resembles “Simon”, the memory game where you try and remember…
After starting my blog, I got a few comments on my @gguuss twitter account about the animated background that I have. So, I figured I would write a short post about it. What is paper.js? I’m sure that its…
It’s surprisingly easy to set up Google voice with a physical phone line now that the OBI100 has been released with some tools for doing this. Step 1: Get an OBi100 VoIP Telephone Adapter and Voice Service Bridge Step…
The following examples are some dead-simple examples that come up all the time when I’m prototyping. The following examples are the first ones that come to mind: CGI / DB connectivity and insertion. Note the code provided does not apply…
So the next version of Windows adds the new spiffy Windows Appbar but how do you add it to your XAML app? It’s easier than you might think… like 15 minutes to do the first time. For this short tutorial,…
Introduction Have you ever seen CoCollage? It’s a cool product that lets people share photos with each other onto a TV screen by sending text messages. I was trying to think of something cool to play with for the Windows…
Application verifier is a nifty application that Microsoft introduced for Windows XP around 2001. This testing tool is also useful for if you want to troubleshoot Windows applications. For example, if you notice a process that is getting out of hand…