Check this out. It's a book. It's about programming Windows Phone using Silverlight and XNA. It's by a hero of mine . And it's a free download!  

As if live streaming of my upcoming PDC talk was not enough, I'll be doing a Q&A on Channel 9 .  Friday October 29th, 10:00 AM PST. If you have questions you'd like me to address, tweet them @ch9live , or submit a question into the PDC10 Session...

A screenshot of the demo from my upcoming PDC talk :   Cats are of course to be expected from me, but this year there are dogs too! Day after tomorrow, live streaming from http://www.microsoftpdc.com

When I read the Swallows and Amazons books as a kid, I loved the " this is what it looked like at night " illustration, which was a page colored solid black. Years later, I finally found an excuse to use this classic image in a PowerPoint deck...

Who:  Me! What:  Things You Need to Know Before Building XNA Games for Windows Phone.  " So you have a cool idea for a game. This session covers some of the less obvious things you will need to know to turn your idea into reality using...

News from the XNA team blog : Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox will be released "later this fall"  (yes, that is deliberately vague :-) At that time we will start accepting 4.0 games into peer review There will be a 90 day window when you can submit...

Kluch posts important info about the performance of Guide.IsTrialMode on Windows Phone: Can take ~60 milliseconds to query while in trial mode So don't call it every frame! This delay only occurs when downloaded from Marketplace, not when testing with...

I sometimes get performance questions that go something like " I want to frobnicate my kaboodle, and am considering doing this by flibitzing the wazoo, but I'm worried this might be too expensive ". The only way I know to answer such a question...

In my talk at MIX earlier this year, I mentioned that C# iterators can be useful for building state machines. Some of you asked for more detail about this idea, so, late but not never, here ya go. Let's say we are building a game with an AI that can...