OK Go Rube Goldberg Machine Wonder

This might be the best music video ever. Ever.

Windows Phone Resources

If you want to get started on Windows Phone development I strongly recommend that you take a look at the videos from Mix. They are very well presented and easy to view on your PC. There is even an HD version of each one.

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL01 – a good introduction to Windows phone and why it is the way it is

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL13 – a good overview of the windows phone and how you build and deploy applications

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL16

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL17 – these two sessions give a very good introduction to Silverlight development on the phone

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL21 – how to use XNA to build games

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL18 – a nice in-depth description of how the phone works internally

You can get the SDK for Windows Phone here.

You can get the first six chapters of the new book from Charles Petzold on Windows Phone development here.

The forums for Windows Phone developers (which are very well staffed with knowledgeable Microsoft moderators) are here.

There is now a Programming Guide for Windows Phone on MSDN which you can find here.

Edward Bowden Art at Hull

People at the Open Day on Saturday probably walked right past this amazing artwork on the wall of the entrance to the Applied Science building without noticing it. It was made in 1963 by Edward Bowden, quite a famous artist. He used expoxy resin and the lid of a coffee jar to get the indentations and shapes on the wall.

Great stuff.

The Wonder of Wot U Do

If you want to see what people can do with new, shiny, technology you should take a look at the Wotudo site. It has a whole bunch of really interesting/useful articles along with source code, neatly categorised into useful chunks and able to be asset stripped for parts of your projects.

Great stuff.

Windows Phone XNA Piano Code Sample

I’ve put together a little Windows Phone XNA demo application that gives you a piano to play with. Through the magic of multi-touch input you can even play chords.

You can find the Visual Studio 2010 project here.