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Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:52 PM

Gamefest 2007 presentations fully available

After some delays we finally can download the full archive of presentations from the XNA Gamefest 2007 Microsoft event. There are a lot of them, covering all aspects of XBox 360, Windows and XNA development, so you should start downloading them right...
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Monday, August 27, 2007 8:47 PM

Wired article on Halo 3

Today I've been reading an interesting Wired article about Halo 3 . I strongly recommend to you, because it's very interesting how Microsoft has setup a "gamers lab" to test their responses to playing games. They use in-game data (hot...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 11:33 PM

Offtopic: Windows Boot screens

I can still remember that boot screen... and the ones that followed it. A lot has happened since then... If you wanna get nostalgic, surf to this ZDNet article with screenshots of all the windows splash/boot screens since the 1.01 version up to Vista...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 7:45 PM

Using WiX (Windows Installer XML)

For my current project, I've had to create installation packages with WiX , an opensource tool that allows to create very powerfull installers with XML. I've used the 2.0 version before, but now there is a beta of the 3.0 version, called Votive...
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Monday, April 23, 2007 9:09 PM

Sensationalist News & Tergiversation

It's curious how even in internet "the news" manipulate and tergiversate information to make it more interesting, dramatic, or like in this example, worse than really is. Let's take a news post from The Register (a sensationalist site which from time...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:21 AM

XBox 360 and Firewall troubleshooting

Few weeks ago, Miguel and I were preparing to kick some ass at Gears of War together, when we discovered we couldn't chat or play along... Something was clearly wrong. I've played through XBox Live but sometimes I couldn't connect or was thrown off by...
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Monday, February 26, 2007 7:50 AM

XNA: Skeletal Bone Animation & Skinning with Collada models article

Benjamin Nitschke has posted a fantastic XNA tutorial about skeletal bone animation and skinning using Collada models, which allow for complex animations exported as XML that DirectX .X files can't handle. As I haven't read all yet (it's quite large ...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:50 AM

Linux for a dummie: First Steps

After a few weeks of discussion with my pals at our office (and via email) about if Windows Vista was bad, Linux was bad (the typical Windows vs Linux topics), I've decided to install the Ubuntu distro under VMWare Server (which is free and, unlike Virtual...
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