Counting Down to Seven: XNA Game Studio 4.0!!!!

March 9, 2010

Welcome to another installment of Counting Down to Seven, a series of articles about mobile app development that I’m writing as we count down the days to MIX10, when we reveal more about the up-and-coming Windows Phone 7 Series.

The Game Developers Conference is a good time to make game development announcements, and that we did: [...]

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Counting Down to Seven: Charlie Kindel Demos His Windows Phone 7 Handset to CNET’s Ina Fried

March 9, 2010

Welcome to another installment of Counting Down to Seven, a series of articles about mobile app development that I’m writing as we count down the days to MIX10, when we reveal more about the up-and-coming Windows Phone 7 Series.
If you’re a developer itching to get started writing apps for Windows Phone 7, you’re going to [...]

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Thursday’s “Ignite Your Coding” Webcast: “Composable Applications FTW” with Glenn Block

March 9, 2010

This Thursday, my fellow Developer Evangelist John Bristowe and I will host another live Ignite Your Coding webcast, where we’ll interview another high-profile software developer and pass along some of your questions.
This week’s guest is Glenn Block, a Program Manager for .NET FX at Microsoft. Glenn’s one of the go-to guys on Prism, Unity, MEF [...]

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Counting Down to Seven: User Experience with Microsoft User Experience Gurus Bill Buxton and Albert “Windows Phone 7” Shum

March 8, 2010

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Welcome to another installment of Counting Down to Seven, a series of articles about mobile app development that I’m writing as we count down the days [...]

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TWC9: 100th Episode, Featuring VS2010 RC Tips, WPF and Bonus Footage

March 8, 2010

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This Week on Channel 9, or TWC9 for short, is a weekly digest show hosted by Microsoft’s Dan Fernandez and Brian Keller covering the developer [...]

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My Chair, My Enemy

March 8, 2010

“Your chair is your enemy,” starts the New York Times article Stand Up While You Read This!
To give you the thesis of the article, here are the next two paragraphs in the article:
It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest [...]

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Counting Down to Seven: The Windows Phone Sessions at MIX10

March 7, 2010

Welcome to another installment of Counting Down to Seven, a series of articles about mobile app development that I’m writing as we count down the days to MIX10, when we reveal more about the up-and-coming Windows Phone 7 Series.
For the longest time, the sessions listed under “Windows Phone” at the MIX10 conference (taking place [...]

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Counting Down to Seven: “Platformer” Running on Windows Phone 7

March 7, 2010

Welcome to another installment of Counting Down to Seven, a series of articles about mobile app development that I’m writing as we count down the days to MIX10, when we reveal more about the up-and-coming Windows Phone 7 Series.
In my last article in the Counting Down to Seven series, I showed you Platformer, the game [...]

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Kevin Pang on How .NET Data Access Fanboys See Each Other’s Strategies

March 6, 2010

I love Kevin Pang’s adaptation of my adaptation, How Fanboys See Operating Systems: here’s How Fanboys See .NET Data Access Strategies…

I especially love the bit about ADO.NET.
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

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Yes, There WILL be an “Ignite Your Coding” RSS Feed

March 6, 2010

For those of you who’ve been wondering if we’ll be setting up an RSS feed for recordings of Ignite Your Coding, the answer is “yes”.
Here’s how Ignite Your Coding works:

On the actual day of the Ignite Your Coding live event, we do the interview live, as implied by the phrase “live event”. From 2:00 [...]

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Cloud Cover, Episode 3: Worker Role Endpoints

March 6, 2010

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Here’s the episode 3 of Cloud Cover, the Channel 9 show where hosts Ryan Dunn and Steve Marx show you what’s in the Windows Azure cloud [...]

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Counting Down to Seven: Exploring XNA

March 5, 2010

Welcome to another article in the Counting Down to Seven series and the first article in the Exploring XNA series — it’s like the chocolate and peanut butter of mobile development!
If you haven’t read Windows Phone team member Charlie Kindel’s latest blog entry yet, do so now. In explaining what’s different in Windows Phone 7, [...]

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Ignite Your Coding Begins Today – 2 p.m. Eastern with Andy “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning” Hunt!

March 4, 2010

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Today’s the big day! John Bristowe and I kick off the live Ignite Your Coding webcast this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. Eastern/11:00 a.m. Pacific with an interview with Andy Hunt, co-founder of the Pragmatic [...]

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Counting Down to Seven: The Most Active Mobile Social Networkers Are…

March 2, 2010

Welcome to another installment of Counting Down to Seven, a series of articles about mobile app development that I’m writing as we count down the days to MIX10, when we reveal more about the up-and-coming Windows Phone 7 Series.
A report from Nielsen – as in the ratings company that got their start with television – [...]

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Ignite Your Coding: This Thursday at 2pm Eastern!

March 2, 2010

Catch the Interview with Andy Hunt This Thursday!
The Ignite Your Coding live webcast series starts this Thursday, March 4th at 2:00 p.m. Eastern (11:00 a.m. Pacific) with me and John Bristowe interviewing Andy “Pragmatic Programmer” Hunt! Join us as we talk with Andy about how he got into software development, how he became a writer [...]

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