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My Picks for PDC 2009

Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:20 PM by danielfe
With a little over a month to go before Microsoft’s biggest and best developer event, I wanted to pick out which PDC sessions look super interesting ( to me ) this year: Dan’s picks Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp (Mark Russinovich, Arun Kishan)– I’ll be Read More...
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PDC Recap

Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 5:54 PM by danielfe
With PDC just about a week over, it's about time I finally got around to blogging about it. Here's the random list Windows Azure : Ray Ozzie launched Windows Azure and Microsoft's Cloud Strategy (video here). Charles on Channel 9 did a bunch of videos Read More...
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CodePlex Community Meetup at PDC

Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 5:22 PM by danielfe
As Sara mentioned in the CodePlex blog, we're having a CodePlex meetup at PDC on Wednesday from 1:30 - 2:30pm where volunteers will be able to show off their Codeplex projects and you'll be able to check out demos of new CodePlex features and give the Read More...
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Opening the kimono on Windows 7

Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:45 AM by danielfe
Today we officially announced that PDC is the first time Microsoft will be discussing Windows 7 in-depth. The big announcements are that: Steve Sinofsky will keynote on Tuesday at PDC There are 21 sessions on Windows 7 at PDC on everything from kernel, Read More...
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Coding4Fun Talk at TechEd

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:22 PM by danielfe
At TechEd this year, I gave what can only be described as an overly ambitious talk given I only had 45 minutes: Coding4Fun: The Secrets to Programming YouTube, iTunes, Microsoft Zune, Windows Vista Peer-to-Peer APIs, and Even World of Warcraft I say overly Read More...
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Session Notes: Life on the Bungie Farm: Fun Things to do with 180 servers and 350 processors

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:48 PM by danielfe
Speakers: Luis Villegas, Sean Shypula from Bungie Distributed client/server system split up, runs it in parallel processes user submitted tasks in parallel 180 rackmounted machines 300 processes can use Advantages speed up time consuming tasks - (rendering Read More...
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Panel: Future of MMOs

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:56 PM by danielfe
Speakers: MC of event, Jon Wood - Managing Editor MMORPG.com Jack Emmert - Founder, Cryptic Studios, Champions Online, City of Heroes/Villans One other person, Mark Jacobs or "Matt" from Cryptic Ray Muzyka - General Manager of Bioware, haven't Read More...
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Session: Star Wars, The Force Unleashed

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:50 PM by danielfe
Full Title: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: How LucasArts is Building a Game Development Team and a Technology Pipeline...at the same time Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a new, upcoming title Storyline: Darth Vader's secret apprentice, between episodes Read More...
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Top 10 Interesting Nuggets from the Microsoft GDC Keynote

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:40 PM by danielfe
The US video game industry revenue is now $18 Billion and continues to grow. Games have not only surpassed the movie industry, they have also surpassed the music industry (source: Jupiter Research) 7 different Xbox titles sold over 1MM units in the 2007 Read More...
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Session: WiiFit: Creating a Brand New Interface for the Home Console

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:02 PM by danielfe
Speaker: Takao Sawano WiiFit Examples Family weighing themselves and tracking health Father doing push ups on balance board Mother doing yoga on the board Games: Kid taking headers playing soccer goalie Games: Grandfather using ski-jump Games: Mother Read More...
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Session: Rules of Engagement: Blizzard's Approach to Multiplayer Game Design

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:01 PM by danielfe
Speaker: Rob Pardo, Blizzard Entertainment Rough notes below   Game Balance - solo to max level - important role in a group, raid, and group PVP - Starcraft - Race totally different - Better players can win games fast - Offense over defense (don't Read More...
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Session: Taking Xbox LIVE Arcade Games to the Next Level

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:00 PM by danielfe
Note: I'll be regularly blogging on session at GDC (Game Developer Conference) Rough notes Speaker: Scott Austin: Xbox LIVE Arcade, Microsoft I just interviewed Scott and we'll be posting the video on Channel 9 in the next few days Games N+ - Level editor Read More...
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The Bill Gates Interview

Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:51 AM by danielfe
I'm such a huge Bill Gates fan, not only for his technical and business brilliance, but for all of the work his foundation has done. That's why when Jeff Sandquist and Charles Torre told me I was going to be interviewing Bill, I was....beside myself. Read More...
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New Channel9 Interview with Scott Guthrie on Mix

Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:28 AM by danielfe
Last night, I caught up with Scott Guthrie and we talked about the up-and-coming technology that will be shown at Mix . I just posted Part 1 of the video onto Channel9 where we discuss IIS 7.0 and what it means for developers. I'll post Part 2 tomorrow, Read More...
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Build and Publish Web Sites with Popfly Explorer Beta

Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 1:13 PM by danielfe
I'm back in Seattle after attending TechEd Europe earlier in the week. It was an absolute blast and thanks to everyone who came to the overflowed Popfly session! Tony Goodhew and I did demos in Soma's keynote, check out Patrik and Andrew's blogs for a Read More...
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