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Christmas in June–My new setup
It had been four years since I bought the Dell M1730 laptop. At the time I was looking for a portable server. I wanted a machine that I could do video editing and game development on as well as my...
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Empire Avenue
So what isEmpire Avenue? Well, I hadn’t heard of it before last week. I saw one of @alfredtwotweets asking about it and I filed it away to look at later. Well, I looked at it last night and decided...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Developer Sweepstakes end June 30th, 2011
If you are almost done with your Windows Phone 7 App or Game, you may want to put a little extra effort into finishing it up and get it certified so you can beat the deadline.Microsoft’s fiscal year...
View ArticleFrom Radians or Degrees to Pi or Tau to a Binary Hand Dance
So last week I wrote a blog post on my XNAEssentials website demonstrating how to create a selection wheel / pie menu in XNA Game Studio 4. Before I even announced it on twitter, Michael Neel...
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God Loves PowerShell (and you too)
I’ve been wanting to work with PowerShell for a long time. I’ve brought it up a few times but just played around with it. I never actually did anything with it … that was until a couple of weeks...
View ArticleXNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed Source Code Released as Open Source
I’m pleased to announce that the XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed book’s source code has been released under the Ms-PL license on CodePlex.So you can use Git and create a clone locally to start working...
View ArticleAlcohol and Geek Conferences
So there was a lot of tweets today about alcohol at conferences and folks feeling left out.The original post was actually making a point about not being able to have meaningful conversations with smart...
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my Development Machine
Over the weekend I created a bootable VHD with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview operation system on my development machine. My initial reaction on my dev machine on Monday morning was that it was less...
View ArticleTwitter Bootstrap and LESS talks
Twitter Bootstrap is great. I’ve given a couple of talks on this subject and am scheduled to give a couple more. Feel free to grab the presentation and the code for the talks.I hope to carve out some...
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Windows 8 Book written in 8 weeks
It’s been a while since I’ve updated the blog. Several things have happened. On July 1st, I received notification that I was renewed as a Microsoft MVP for 2012.This made me very happy since I also...
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