XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP

Announcing: XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP)

A preview release of XNA Game Studio 3.0 is now available through the XNA Creators Club site , with a final release scheduled for the holiday 2008 season. For those of you that prefer the shortest path to happiness, here is the direct link to the XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP

If you find a bug or want to suggest a new feature, post it on XNA Game Studio Connect.
posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:38 AM by paul with 0 Comments

The Open Internet

Investing in Future of Open Internet

Google, Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners have entered into an agreement to invest $3.2 billion in a new wireless broadband company. The new company will combine Clearwire's existing consumer WiMAX business with Sprint's broadband infrastructure and 2.5 GHz spectrum to create a new nationwide wireless broadband network.

We need more networks, more bandwidth, more coverage, more competition, so hopefully this will get us some of that.
I can remember back when WiMAX was an Intel initiative, then Sprint signed-on and now we have coalition with the desire and cash to complete the task.
posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:45 AM by paul with 0 Comments

PopFly Audio

Creating Music for Popfly Game Creator

PopFly Game Creator allows you to upload your own music and sounds as .WMA or .MP3 files to use in your games. You can find out more on the process of uploading and playing back audio on the Popfly wiki.
posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:24 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Asp.Net 3.5 Book on Sale

Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Book (only $16 on Amazon for a short time)

Instead of the usual $54 price, you can buy it for a short time for a ridiculous $16.49,$27.49 but act fast as they say on TV.
Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB by Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman and Devin Rader. Its Amazon sales rank of #95, which meant it was outselling Harry Potter!
posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:25 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Silverlight 2 Controls

Download Source and Tests for Silverlight 2 Controls

The source for Silverlight 2 controls has been released with thousands of unit tests along with the test framework. That said, to develop Silverlight-based applications that use the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 controls, you do not need this source code. Instead, you must install the Silverlight 2 Software Development Kit SDK Beta 1. The source code for the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 controls enables you to learn the inner workings of the controls. To get the source code and tests, see Source Code and Unit Tests for Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Controls on Microsoft download site.
posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:06 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008

A new name and a new Community Technical Preview CTP of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008.
The preview contains a large number of new features and improvements including increased runtime performance, improved security management, support for distributed language integrated queries LINQ, support for creating applications that run on multiple DSS nodes, and many new features in the Visual Simulation Environment.

Tandy Trower: Robotics Update - Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008
posted Monday, May 05, 2008 7:03 PM by paul with 1 Comments

A Yahoo run, or a run on YHOO?

Start watching for planted Media stories about a YHOO free-fall.

The only way to stop a run on YHOO is for someone to buy-up the YHOO shares as fast as they're dumped.

Jerry and David may need to invest a billion or two of their own money to save the day. A Second Act from the guys who began with one server and a little attitude and set to the task of indexing the World Wide Web.

Two seconds after the NASDX bell rings on Monday morning YHOO shares will drop $2, then all the talking begins...
posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 10:09 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Yahoo Prevails

Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!

Dear Jerry:
After over three months, we have reached the conclusion of the process regarding a possible combination of Microsoft and Yahoo!.
I first want to convey my personal thanks to you, your management team, and Yahoo!’s Board of Directors for your consideration of our proposal. I appreciate the time and attention all of you have given to this matter, and I especially appreciate the time that you have invested personally. I feel that our discussions this week have been particularly useful, providing me for the first time with real clarity on what is and is not possible.

This was a big failure for Microsoft PR as they fed often false information to blogs like Techcrunch, BoomTown and Silicon Alley Watcher.
Yahoo is still the number destination on the Web despite all the disparaging remarks by those blogs that sold their souls for an increase in Microsoft ad dollars.

On the other side of the world it's already Monday morning and Brokers who accumulated YHOO shares at the behest of Microsoft are dumping them. They may begin to buy them back if YHOO returnes to under $20 a share, but Steve Ballmer really should be focused on MSFT shareholder value.
posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:07 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Héctor Ruiz

Héctor Ruiz in this video from TED talks about his commitment to giving the whole world access to the Internet. Dr. Ruiz is the CEO of AMD, and through AMD's 50x15 initiative they hope to connect 50 percent of the world to the Internet by 2015. Sharing his own extraordinary life story, Ruiz makes the case that access to education is life-changing.

posted Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:58 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Popfly Game Creator

Popfly Game Creator

On a Friday afternoon while everryone is watching MSFT go down and YHOO rise, the alpha of the Popfly Game Creator was announced.
posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:50 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Software Licensing and Protection Services

Protect your .NET code with SLPS

Microsoft loses billions every year from piracy.
Casual Pirates share software and transfer licenses freely. Soft Pirates knowingly download software cracks and keys. Blatant Pirates go to any lengths to hack software and use it illegally.

We should never forget that Microsoft was founded by a couple of hackers.

Software Licensing and Protection Services can help you protect, package, license, sell and control your software.
posted Friday, May 02, 2008 10:27 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Cognitive Surplus

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Clay Shirky from the NYU Media Lab gave the most memorable talk at the Web 2.0 Expo last week in San Francisco. Check-out the video, just click the photo.
posted Friday, May 02, 2008 6:57 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Expression 2 Ships

On May Day the Microsoft Expression Team shipped the second version of their Designer IDE in six flavors to help collaborate with Developers to create amazing websites.
Expression Studio 2
posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:53 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Microsoft Pro Photo Shoot

Microsoft Pro Photo Shoot

Microsoft Pro Photo Shoot is a new software add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook that allows photographers to add details of the client and equipment for a photo shoot appointment in Outlook. This allows photographers to greater leverage the power of Outlook when managing their photography.

posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:42 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Architects in IT

We don't need no architects

Welcome to Issue 15 of The Architecture Journal

As IT transforms the way we work, the IT process is evolving with web services that will inter-operate with other systems symphonically.
posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:40 AM by paul with 0 Comments

GDC XNA Presentations

GDC 2008 Presenations are now available!

The XNA Team has announced the availability of the Microsoft Developer Day GDC presentations on MSDN. Thanks to the GDC speakers, who put in a great deal of time and effort to create and present these decks.
posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:11 AM by paul with 0 Comments

AMD Business Class

AMD Business Class provides the foundation for a business computing infrastructure designed to work harder, longer.

Why care about a balanced PC configuration?

In our multitasking, multimedia, always connected, always on world, we aspire to consistent, persistent computing, enabling us to be more productive in everything we do.

AMD Business Class processors and the AMD 780V chipset, provide the performance and energy efficiency needed for a stable and consistent platform for today's business PC.
posted Monday, April 28, 2008 10:46 AM by paul with 1 Comments

Get Mesh


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Amit Mital, Microsoft's GM for Live Mesh gave a first look at Mesh at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week.
posted Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:43 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Mesh

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect sits down with Jon Udell to talk about Live Mesh, a new technology and platform that enables synchronization and storage to the cloud. The history of Live Mesh, was influenced by Ray's previous work on Groove and Lotus Notes. Ray also discusses the core technology that forms the basis for Live Mesh including REST APIs, XML, and synchronization APIs that enable you sync your Mesh across multiple devices.

Live Mesh is a software-plus-services platform and experience from Microsoft that enables PCs and other devices to ‘come alive’ by making them aware of each other through the Internet, enabling individuals and organizations to manage, access, and share their files and applications seamlessly on the Web and across their world of devices

Check-out Live Mesh for yourself, sign-up and learn first hand about this new software + services platform for synchronization and collaboration.

posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:03 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Techbash 2008

TECHbash 2008 Don’t Miss It!

Since its inception in 2005, TECHbash has evolved into a premier technology conference for Northeastern Pennsylvania. This one day event brings together a broad spectrum of Technology Professionals to network, knowledge share and discuss existing technology solutions to business challenges, as well as preview prerelease products on the bleeding edge.
posted Monday, April 21, 2008 3:54 PM by paul with 0 Comments