In case you missed it, the other "core" Windows Phone / Silverlight talks are also up now: Shawn Oster (Silverlight 101): http://www.shawnoster.com/Blog/An-Introduction-to-Developing-Applications-for-Microsoft-Silverlight--MIX10 Mike Harsh (Building...

The slides and the video of my Mix 10 talk are now available at http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL17 - thanks again to everyone who made it in-person. The code is now also available -- just download the ZIP from here and open the solution in...

Thanks to everyone who made it to the Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight, Part 2 talk this afternoon – so glad to finally be able to share everything with the world! If you missed it (or want to see it again) you should be able to...

Well it's been a while! Since HD DVD went the way of Betamax (sorry, couldn't resist) I've been involved in three different projects. The first one wasn't public and never will be. The second isn't public yet but hopefully one day it will be. The good...

I have had some readers ask what is to become of this blog. Well, it started out discussing Office Development , then it covered Threat Modelling , and most recently it has been about HDi . There have been several posts about the Pet Shop Boys and then...

Previously we looked at how you can bind a function to a set of arguments and then call the resultant function at some time in the future. This technique is very powerful, but as-is it is a ticking bomb. As Amy points out in her blog post on exception...

Having just written a post with an example of how to use the arguments object , you might question my choice of title for this blog post. In my not-so-humble opinion, the 'arguments' object in ECMAScript is only useful for one thing: The 'arguments...

And now for a more techy post. In ECMAScript, functions are considered first-class objects. "What," you might ask, "differentiates a 'first-class' object from a merely 'economy-class' object?" Well, the main thing is that functions in ECMAScript are treated...

As you may know, Howard Jones played an acoustic show in Seattle last night with Robin Boult on guitar. The performance was fantastic, and the venue ( The Triple Door ) was actually quite nice with a limited menu coming from the kitchens of Wild Ginger...

Not one but two bits of good news this morning! Firstly, TWICE reported on Toshiba's plans for HD DVD this year. Probably the biggest news was that the entry-level HD-A3 player will have a new recommended price of only $149 and that the higher-end models...

When I first moved to the US over eight years ago, I thought it was very odd that people put lids on their take-away coffee. I found it quite strange to drink through a hole in a lid rather than to just drink directly from the cup, and routinely discarded...

It's finally here! The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator went live today, enabling content authors to test their HD DVD content in a real-world consumer player before committing it to a shiny disc. This can save a lot of time and a lot of money for those folks...

If you follow the High-Definition format war at all, you're probably familiar with the weekly sales breakdown published in Home Media Magazine and other places. If you checked them last week , you would have seen something strange. Something very strange...

One of the key programming concepts in HDi is the use of asynchronous processing with callback functions. The HDi platform exposed to title authors is not multi-threaded (which helps reduce the complexity of writing applications), but many of the functions...

Forget being the best thing since sliced bread – this is the best thing ever . Well maybe not quite that good, but it's still darn cool! Finally – FINALLY! – you can get decent IntelliSense for JScript inside Visual Studio ! Holy hotcakes, Batman...

Short post: In the interests of full disclosure, I've started editing Wikipedia on various topics related to HD DVD. Initially I made several "anonymous" edits, but decided to create an account for transparency and so I can "watch" pages as they change...

Every now and then, I hear people make comments like "Movies more than 5 years old won't look any better in HD because they were shot before HD was invented – the movie studios are lying to you about better quality!" This is horribly, horribly , horribly...

The use of timers in HDi applications is very common, and there are a few things you should keep in mind when using them to avoid performance issues when playing back your title. I will categorise these as: The autoReset problem The closure problem...

Quick one today – if you have an ACA with some files in it, you can use the createaca tool (provided as part of the Jumpstart Kit ) to list the files inside it. Trouble is that the output is not very helpful; it contains too much information. So here...

Last time we looked at conditional compilation , and how using it with HDiSim could aid with interactive debugging of runtime exceptions. But as useful as interactive debugging is, there are three major cases where it is impractical or impossible: ...

One of the cardinal rules for developing HD DVD applications is, "let no exception go unhandled." The reason for this is simple – if you fail to handle an exception, the player will kill your application and stop the disc. This leads many developers to...

No, not the application.link API. A web link. Or two. Some of you may have noticed a new name on the HD DVD Forums of late: Amy Dullard . She also has a great blog that focuses on getting people up-and-running with HDi. Check it out at http://blogs...

Ahoy there me laddies! Yarrrr you better be readin' this blog then matey, or you'll be feelin' the lick o' the cat come nightfall! No, it's not Talk Like a Pirate Day ; it's Let's Post Another HDi Game Day . The other week I posted an HDi sample based...

Although I tend to blog about HDi and advanced interactivity in HD DVD, many customers simply want to release their high-definition video quickly and cheaply. If you are a professional videographer shooting things like weddings, corporate events, marketing...

This blog would be titled Space Invaders , but I don't own that trademark so I had to choose something a bit more generic. This is a preliminary post to show a very hacked up version of the popular game in HDi. Note that I hope to follow up with a more...