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Monday, August 10, 2009 3:02 PM
VSTS 2010: Using the Directed Graph Diagram part 1 of however many I do till I get distracted again
Now that VSTS 2010 is available through the CTP program, MSDNAA, BizSpark and MSDN, you can use it to deconstruct applications that you might need to take charge of. My example is the XNA RPG . The image at the top of the article is an example
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Friday, July 24, 2009 8:20 AM
UML: Software Engineering Institute, Game Design guidance
Interesting isn’t it that the game design discussion on the Software Engineering Institute site seems to end around 2005, just as life gets interesting for game design. First of all the XBox team at Microsoft releases the XNA Game Studio, allowing
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:31 PM
UML: OMG and SEI
OMG (really) is the O bject M anagement G roup that can be found at http://www.uml.org , fortunate for them that they got that URL for UML. The site is filled with links that are not connected, you would think that someone every once in awhile would
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Saturday, July 18, 2009 8:52 AM
UML: Use Cases, relationships Part 4
I have received a few comments about what happened with the DLL discussion I was having on this blog. Well quite simply, I realized that I might be able to put together a coherent discussion about UML in VS 2010 and build back into the DLL discussion.
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Friday, June 19, 2009 8:42 AM
XNA: Using Fonts in XNA 3.1
XNA 3.1 No difference in how to use Fonts in XNA 3.1 over XNA 2.0. If you already know how to use text in your project, this won’t be a big help to you. This article was written to try to look a little smarter than my previous blog may have
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:25 AM
WOW: Lua, World of Warcraft and AI
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:07 PM
WOW: WOW AddonStudio
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Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:06 PM
What is good subject material? Courts have made the decision
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 4:08 AM
Building a Breakout game and Steve Jobs
Taking a slight diversion, the rumors about Steve Job's health do not seem to be confirmed, and let's hope this innovator is healthy. I hope that he is just sick of MacWorld and is hanging around with his wife and four children, working on the next new
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:50 AM
New Zune Review: Create games on the Zune
Wow, with the new CTP release of the XNA Game Studio 3.0 you can create games that work on the Zune. Since we only talk about things you can do using the Express products on this blog, you will need to download VC# 2008 Express. However, if you have access
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Friday, January 20, 2006 8:11 AM
Computer related jobs for college graduates in the US
What are the jobs situation in the US with respect to computers related jobs?
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