Mathemachicken is a unique educational game which teaches basic mathematical operations with the help of the chickens. The primary goal of the game is to add or subtract the eggs laid out by the first two chickens. The user represents the answer by making the third chicken lay eggs by touching it. The answer is submitted by poking the cow. The game ......

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I came up with many different titles for this post but I think nothing can reflect the simplicity and the elegance of the two words “Hello World”. If you are following me on Twitter (@azamsharp) then you might have noted that my tweets have drastically changed from highly technical to plain poop. On October 22nd I became the fatha, I mean ferger, I ......

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Recently, I pushed out a new version (1.1) of the ABC Pop game. The new features includes the following changes: 1) Ability to repeat the voice 2) Three new cool backgrounds The game is available on app stores for only $0.99 cents. Use the following link to read more about ABC Pop. http://itunes.apple.com/us/... Thanks ......

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Where do you find 800+ technology geeks talking in binary? Yes you are right Houston Techfest 2010. I was fortunate enough to attend the Houston Techfest 2010 hosted at University of Houston on October 9 2010. Fortunate, because I got permission from my wife, she is pregnant and due in a week. I presented two sessions on the following topics: 1) NOSQL ......

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It is that time of the year again! No not all you can eat at IHop! I am talking about Houston Techfest 2010 on October 9th 2010 at University of Houston. I have to admit that I have attended all the Techfest events in Houston and every year it gets better and better. If you have not registered then register now using the link below: Register for Houston ......

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Couple of weeks ago I gave myself a challenge. The challenge was that I have to write a complete iPhone application in 1 week. I had no prior iPhone development experience so I thought it would be fun and educational at the same time. I had couple of app ideas but since my first baby is due in October I thought I would make something that my baby can ......

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The ObjectID is assigned to each document when the document is persisted in the MongoDb database. The ObjectID is a unique ID to distinguish between different documents. The ObjectID is kept in the field/attribute called “_id”. This attribute is very important when fetching and updating the records. When using MongoDb with C# driver I usually create ......

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The C# driver for MongoDb works with plain documents. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a document oriented world. Our world is more of an object oriented. There are numerous ways of converting the object structure into documents and I have blogged about this before. If you are interested here is an article which takes about ToDocument() method which ......

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My quest to learn things outside the Microsoft stack has led me to the Ruby language. I always admired the beauty and expressiveness of the Ruby language. Ruby advocates the idea of unit testing and that is why it is baked into the Ruby language. I just published an article on Unit Testing Using the Ruby Language which can be viewed using the following ......

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I think most of the programmers have this disease of keeping them self busy with work and I am no exception. Several months ago I was interested in gardening and spent most of the time growing my vegetables. I like to think I was kind of successful as my garden produced 6-8 large tomatoes and one single huge egg plant. Anyway, Houston heat and insects ......

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