My daughter Layla mentioned a few days ago that they are teaching her how to program simple Mindstorms robots at school. As a software developer, I was of course super excited when she started explaining the logic she was “writing” in the visual programming language to make her little mindstorms robot move around and turn. [...]
I recently posted a nice little helper class that I had been using on windows phone 7. This version works on the desktop CLR (there’s a minor difference in how you create a web request) … and also adds a new method that lets you get direct access to the response stream. So I figured [...]
Big milestone for the FlatRedBall team, Udder Chaos has been submitted for play test on XBox Live Indie Games! AppHub members can download the game for play test here, and give us feedback on the game’s forum thread here. I came onto this project rather recently, the game was mostly done. So I’ve been working [...]
Fresh on the Marketplace, Lemonade Stand for Windows Phone 7 now available for download! Please note: LMND.st is down until further notice, the app has been removed from the marketplace until that time. Welcome to Lemonade Stand, a new and easy way to buy and sell locally. Lemonade Stand is a neighborly commerce platform that [...]
This was a nice little surprise My (unofficial) Khan Academy app for windows phone 7 got reviewed on an episode of Hot Apps By Laura Foy – check the video below. Only reason I noticed was because I checked the download stats and saw a sustained spike in traffic a few weeks ago. Thanks Laura!
In honor of the NY Startupbus at SXSW … a wp7 app for lmnd.st Yes, it’s pointing to the live API … though only the display of the current listings is built right now. Total time spent thus far: 50 minutes on the train this morning 1 hour during lunch
Just wanted to point you to a recent project of mine which is now ready for consumption: http://p2plendingdata.com From the site description: So what’s this all about? we take data from LendingClub, mash it up in our database, and try to extract some insight for Peer to Peer investors to use in their search for new [...]
Location based services like foursquare, gowalla, and the recently minted ‘facebook places’ let users check in from wherever they are at to inform their friends of their whereabouts. By this point, most places have already been defined in those services, so all you usually have to do is pick from a list of nearby locations. [...]
After reviewing the UI design guidelines, re-theming the application, and submitting on Sunday, the application was approved about 24 hours later. It’s now live on the marketplace! You can download it by clicking here if you have the Zune software installed, or just navigating to Marketplace > Books & Reference > Reference, or of course, [...]
The micro-finance website LendingClub.com lets you download a snapshot of their loan data for the purposes of analysis … which is really cool, and not really a thing that financial companies are prone to do. If this is the kind of thing that interests you, I just wanted to show just how easy it was [...]