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I think it’s disgusting that when a large, fun event is just down the road from my house that I had to get up an hour earlier to attend it! This year’s Microsoft Dev Days event was at Vodaworld in Midrand and about 2km from my home.
The event was fun to attend and the sessions, [...]

I feel really honoured to be part of a community that’s achieving such amazing milestones in terms of what it provides for its members and how it reaches out to new markets.  The Game.Dev community has managed to get MindSet to sponsor R10,000 rand in prizes for their next game development competition; that’s R5000 for [...]

I was just handed an article from News24 which not only describes the petition from my previous post but has also managed to get a statement out of Cindy White, Xbox 360 Group Manager for Microsoft South Africa.
“The Xbox team is currently working to an international roll-out plan for Xbox Live. South Africa is included [...]

If you live in South Africa and have an Xbox 360 you might want to check out the petition that’s just been started which will be sent Microsoft South Africa asking for local Live support.

Xbox Live is amazing and extends from downloading and playing Live Arcade games (classics from Double Dragon, to Worms, to Poker) [...]

I only noticed this little gem because I was getting frustrated with what I was trying to do and forced myself to sit down and read the documentation from start to finish.
In the the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha SDK, Microsoft provides you with an XSD to add to your Visual Studios schemas which enables intellisense for [...]

As Danny Day of the Game.Dev community will tell you, good game development is all about cheats and tricks; fooling the player into believing they’re part of a living environment and rendering marvels before their eyes when you’re actually taking every shortcut you can to save on CPU cycles.
Well, I’ve discovered a trick I would [...]

As promised here is the little demo I did at work; a Silverlight (Javascript) project made using Microsoft Expression Blend. If you see a message saying you need to get MS Silverlight, then you haven’t gotten this marvelous (and tiny) plugin installed and I suggest to click the link provided to see what I’ve done.

The second announcement from MIX07 (see my previous post for the first) is a little vaguer with concrete information; and it’s the announcement of the Dynamic Language Runtime.
“It is a layer of software that supports dynamic languages running on the CLR. It provides a shared set of language services such as a dynamic type system, [...]

The first announcement from MIX07 that interested me is that Silverlight has got a Go Live license for version 1.0 and a 1.1 Alpha version has been released which allows developers to implement .NET code (as supposed JavaScript, the default) in their Silverlight projects. While I’m not sure how .NET projects will run on a [...]