At MSDN, we spend a lot of time talking about professional software development. After all - millions of individuals worldwide make their living designing, developing, testing, deploying and maintaining software applications. But that’s not what this developer center is about...

Even more people worldwide write software for fun – not because they are being paid, but because they love to code. They love to build applications to analyze their Halo 2 scores, or display a cool screen saver, or show off their family photo album. They might write applications to help them with other hobbies, from gardening and genealogy to tricking out their cars and helping them remodel their house.

Who are these people? Let’s call them hobbyists...

The Coding4Fun Developer Center was built by a few of us at Microsoft who also consider ourselves hobbyist developers on the nights and weekends. We built this site in our spare time, on a shoestring budget, with a whole lot of passion for giving back to the hobbyist developer community. We have signed up several awesome bloggers and writers who will be contributing regular articles to the Coding4Fun columns you see in the left-hand navigation menu. We’ll also link to some of the coolest projects and hobbyist news happening in the community.[View entire Mission Statement (Main page linked in headline)]