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Dear friends, As we start the new year, its a great time to step back and review where we want to go with Coding4Fun, what kind of content were passionate about, and most importantly, what we can do to inspire and enable everyone to get busy coding for fun themselves. Our Team Weve expanded our team by hiring two new full-time members: http://twitter.com/#!/rickbarraza" target="_blank Rick Barraza and http://twitter.com/#!/brianpeek" target="_blank Brian Peek . Heres how our team looks right now: http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/danielfe3.png <img title="danielfe" src="http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/danielfe_thumb1.png" alt="danielfe" width="102" height="115" border="0 Dan Fernandez - Im the team cat-herder, and lately Ive been working on Kinect for Windows, Windows 8, and C# async. <img title="image" src="http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/image13-1.png" alt="image" width="100" height="115" border="0 Clint Rutkas - Lately, Clint has been working on all sorts of things, including MVC, Kinect for Windows, .NET Micro Framework, Windows Phone and, of course, crazy hardware projects. He built out the http://coding4fun.codeplex.com Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit as well! <img title="image" src="http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/image19-1.png" alt="image" width="100" height="137" border="0
Brian Peek - Many of you already know Brian as a regular Coding4Fun author and contributor since 2006, but hes an official blue badge as of this week! Hes probably most known for his http://wiimotelib.codeplex.com/" target="_blank .NET Wiimote library , but he has also written a http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/BrianPeek" target="_blank pile of articles here at Coding4Fun, worked a bit on the http://kinectforwindows.org/" target="_blank Kinect for Windows SDK , the upcoming West Coast Customs car, and a variety of other things youve probably seen or used. He was a 5 time C# MVP too! <img title="image" src="http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/image16-1.png" alt="image" width="100" height="134" border="0 Rick Barraza - Rick Barraza is one of our favorite design technologists and you may have seen him giving talks or showing off prototypes or concept tech demos at MIX, SXSW or IxDA. He lives and plays at the intersection of design and emerging technology and is super excited to be joining C4F and adding his design and UX ninja skills to our core team. <img title="image" src="http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/image4-1.png" alt="image" width="102" height="121" border="0 Greg Duncan - Greg single-handedly runs the Coding4Fun blog and the Kinect project page, posting daily updates on cool community projects. Greg is easily one of the best people for finding and writing about great content on the Web and were lucky to have him! Coding4Fun Authors - One of the best parts about Coding4Fun is that we have 3rd party contributors who write about things theyre passionate about, including regular contributor Arian Kulp, UX wizard Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media, rising star Dennis Delimarsky, audio expert Mark Heath, and newcomers like Pedro Lamas, Faiben Royer, MIchael Quandt, and Mark Stevens. Were always looking for more authors too, so if you have a fun, cool article/project idea, send it to us! <img title="image" src="http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/image22-1.png" alt="image" width="78" height="89" border="0 We’re hiring – We’re also hiring for our a https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=72257&jlang=EN junior Developer/Program Manager position on our team for coding, writing, and reviewing Coding4Fun projects. email me dandotfernandezatmicrosoftdotcom if you’re interested <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/wlEmoticon-smile2.png" alt="Smile Our Content Coding4Fun is going back to its roots: more accessible projects that everyone can enjoy. Our goal is to provide projects and content that are software driven. When hardware is required, our goal is to use devices and electronics that are easily-accessible or that fit within a hobbyist budget. As Coding4Fun has grown in popularity, the scale of our projects has also grown, such as the http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Jellybean-the-Kinect-Drivable-Lounge-Chair" target="_blank Kinect-controlled lounge chair and the amazing work with Windows and the West Coast Customs concept car. While we love doing these types of full scale, insane projects and will continue to drive keynote size projects moving forward, its hard to see these projects being easily to duplicate by the community. Thats not to say you wont see any more crazy, large-scale projects from us, because you will! <img src=http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/content/images/emoticons/emotion-1.gif?v=c9 alt=Smiley /> But its important to us that Coding4Fun isnt just about what developers can do with lots of resources working full time, but what any developer can do with a little time, curiosity and passion. What do you think? What projects would you love to see more of on our blogs, tutorials and demos? We have our lists and are ready to go, but wed love to hear from you too. 2012 is shaping up to be an amazing year for technology. Lets get started. <img src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:2bba16350d1e47b68bbc9fcf00429f4b
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Brian Peek - Many of you already know Brian as a regular Coding4Fun author and contributor since 2006, but hes an official blue badge as of this week! Hes probably most known for his http://wiimotelib.codeplex.com/" target="_blank .NET Wiimote library , but he has also written a http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/BrianPeek" target="_blank pile of articles here at Coding4Fun, worked a bit on the http://kinectforwindows.org/" target="_blank Kinect for Windows SDK , the upcoming West Coast Customs car, and a variety of other things youve probably seen or used. He was a 5 time C# MVP too! <img title="image" src="http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/image16-1.png" alt="image" width="100" height="134" border="0 Rick Barraza - Rick Barraza is one of our favorite design technologists and you may have seen him giving talks or showing off prototypes or concept tech demos at MIX, SXSW or IxDA. He lives and plays at the intersection of design and emerging technology and is super excited to be joining C4F and adding his design and UX ninja skills to our core team. <img title="image" src="http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/image4-1.png" alt="image" width="102" height="121" border="0 Greg Duncan - Greg single-handedly runs the Coding4Fun blog and the Kinect project page, posting daily updates on cool community projects. Greg is easily one of the best people for finding and writing about great content on the Web and were lucky to have him! Coding4Fun Authors - One of the best parts about Coding4Fun is that we have 3rd party contributors who write about things theyre passionate about, including regular contributor Arian Kulp, UX wizard Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media, rising star Dennis Delimarsky, audio expert Mark Heath, and newcomers like Pedro Lamas, Faiben Royer, MIchael Quandt, and Mark Stevens. Were always looking for more authors too, so if you have a fun, cool article/project idea, send it to us! <img title="image" src="http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/image22-1.png" alt="image" width="78" height="89" border="0 We’re hiring – We’re also hiring for our a https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=72257&jlang=EN junior Developer/Program Manager position on our team for coding, writing, and reviewing Coding4Fun projects. email me dandotfernandezatmicrosoftdotcom if you’re interested <img class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" src="http://files.channel9.msdn.com/wlwimages/ae054c0b4d7b402ab1239e6800c0220f/wlEmoticon-smile2.png" alt="Smile Our Content Coding4Fun is going back to its roots: more accessible projects that everyone can enjoy. Our goal is to provide projects and content that are software driven. When hardware is required, our goal is to use devices and electronics that are easily-accessible or that fit within a hobbyist budget. As Coding4Fun has grown in popularity, the scale of our projects has also grown, such as the http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Jellybean-the-Kinect-Drivable-Lounge-Chair" target="_blank Kinect-controlled lounge chair and the amazing work with Windows and the West Coast Customs concept car. While we love doing these types of full scale, insane projects and will continue to drive keynote size projects moving forward, its hard to see these projects being easily to duplicate by the community. Thats not to say you wont see any more crazy, large-scale projects from us, because you will! <img src=http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/content/images/emoticons/emotion-1.gif?v=c9 alt=Smiley /> But its important to us that Coding4Fun isnt just about what developers can do with lots of resources working full time, but what any developer can do with a little time, curiosity and passion. What do you think? What projects would you love to see more of on our blogs, tutorials and demos? We have our lists and are ready to go, but wed love to hear from you too. 2012 is shaping up to be an amazing year for technology. Lets get started. <img src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:2bba16350d1e47b68bbc9fcf00429f4b
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