March, 2009

Last week I had an XNA talk at DCU.  They had left me with a few questions to answer which I had left on my machine which went into the shop.  I got it back yesterday and here are the questions:  What is the accepted file size for games...

I was excited to see this morning that our local PC Live! Radio Show podcast is listed on the Zune marketplace.  If you’re a Zune user, you can search for PC Live and our podcast will come up.  You can subscribe using the button there.

But cool technology is worth writing about, so here we go.  If you were watching the MIX09 Live Keynote yesterday ( http://live.visitmix.com/ ), you saw a couple of awesome applications which really take rich, Internet applications to a new level...

Last week I was visiting DCU for their annual Tech Week to talk about XNA and video game development.  I received a few questions which I mentioned I would blog the answers to.  One of those was regarding recommended physics engines for XNA...

If you haven’t yet heard of Developer Developer Developer, you’re missing out. DDD is coming to Belfast FOR FREE on Saturday April 4th, and registration is open here: http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/belfast/Register.aspx Topics planned include...

With one laptop down, I was looking for a backup machine for an XNA talk & workshop. I never thought my MacBook Pro would run XNA games. I have Vista + Visual Studio on VMWare Fusion 1.1, and I know at some point I tried compiling & running some...

I’m on the final week of a three-week series of workshops Ireland Girl Geek Dinners are doing on Giving Technical Presentations , so wouldn’t you know that this would be the week I’ve had the absolute worst luck ever in my sessions?   Last week...

Today I was doing some training labs with teachers who are just getting started teaching programming.  It was a lot of fun, as they were quite enthusiastic once they got in front of the computers.  I know the feeling, as I remember being in...

If you’re a student studying computer science, development, IT, software design, web design or anything along those lines, sign up for the Microsoft Ireland Student Newsletter .  This twice-monthly newsletter contains guest articles by fellow students...

The Irish Internet Association ( http://iia.ie ) has several working groups designed to focus on various areas of  the Web.  The Web Development Working Group have created a survey to find out what you would value them spending their time and...