Love is in the Air
An interesting side effect of releasing XNA Express is that there seems to be an uptick of interest in C# and the .Net platforn in general. A 4 page thread sprang up last night on NewGAF and the community is...
Monthly Archive: August 2006
It’s Not Facism When We Do It!
There’s an interesting thread on Fark about one Raed Jarrar and his experience at JFK airport. To summarize, Mr. Jarrar had been wearing a t-shirt with the text “we will not be silent” in both Arabic and English. What followed...
So I’m 25 Now.
This past week marked the 25th year of my life. I’ve never been one to dwell on birthdays and the like; I’m not one to believe in relative and arbitrary systems, as our calendar is, but I cannot help feeling…old....
“The Ultimate Assist”
There is a great article over on SI.com on the story of Kwame James. It’s a great read; don’t miss it. On a (vaguely) related note, I cracked open two fortune cookies on Tuesday and came away with some good...
Innovation, Sony Style
Last week, I touched upon how Microsoft is innovating with the XBOX360 by opening up the gaming console to small time developers, regular-Joe programmers, and students. And of course, last year, I was just blown away by the initial peek...
Database Implementation Woes
My wife says I’m slightly OCD. Myself? I acknowledge that I’m somewhat picky when it comes to certain things. One of these is database implementation. I’m not sure how I started down this path or how I became such a...
Asus W7J Pictorial
So I got an Asus W7J via UPS today (joy!) for my sister-in-law, who’s attending college as a freshman this upcoming semster. I had a very good impression of the W5F when I purchased it for my wife in May,...
Innovation, Microsoft Style
Compared to all the love that Nintendo has been getting for innovating in terms of how we interact with our games, both Microsoft and Sony have been accused of not innovating enough to provide for a compelling reason to purchase...
For All the Hate That Microsoft Gets…
Will you look at that? The team that won the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle competion used Microsoft Windows XP Embedded to run their bot. From the team’s white paper: The Windows XP Embedded operating system along with Matlab 7 were utilized...
Developer Life Lessons: #001
Welcome to the inaugural “Developer Life Lessons” post! Like my DevTools posts, I hope to make these a series which contain little developer life stories, tidbits, and advice (at least whatever I’m qualified to offer). So what shall our topic...