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Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:12 PM

Brain Freeze: Thinking about beginning programming classes

So far in my previous blog posts, I talked about the following items: Use of C, which is a requirement for the class Write and test your first program for security issues (Intro to C#) Use media in your programs (Designing Applications)    
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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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Monday, July 27, 2009 10:15 AM

Is software engineering dead?

Software Engineering: Dead? by Jeff Atwood, asks this question.  My question is this: Did anyone find that their software engineering courses in school mapped to what you actually do at work?  Doubtful in my opinion, unless you attended certain
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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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Friday, June 12, 2009 10:04 AM

DLL: Creating Objects or Concrete Classes

First off tip of the hat to Tamer Maher: Tamer Maher in Egypt suggested that I include links to the many game programming sites that I like, these will be included in the next posting of this blog. Thank you Tamer for your input! See his blog at http://TamerMaher.spaces.live.com
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Monday, June 08, 2009 8:46 AM

DLLs: Important stuff, and questions about Angelina Jolie’s use of DLLs

Original title for this blog:   OMG: I appeared to have made a commitment to show how to build a dll in a previous blog and Angelina Jolie tells her story about DLLs I am sorry, I made the statement: “In this blog, we will create a simple DLL that
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Friday, June 05, 2009 5:02 PM

Need help understanding C#, admit it, this isn’t easy

I have been working with software forever, ok, since I was 16, and I am 55 now.  So why ain’t I rich?  It’s a long and boring story, so stay focused…Oh wait a minute, I am pretty well off.  Software is the way to make money.  But you
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:44 PM

Building Mobile Games: Building a garage (DLL) for your stuff (classes)

Now that is a great title: Some more stuff.  Well that is what the blog is about: Stuff.  Game stuff, to build a game, it is a good idea to understand the concept of DLL and classes.  DLL stands for Dynamic Linking Libraries, which is a
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:16 PM

New Game on the Creators Site! Zune game, with music!

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:25 AM

WOW: Lua, World of Warcraft and AI

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Friday, February 13, 2009 2:57 PM

Game Idea: Galileo’s Conspiracy

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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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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:01 PM

Why start game design by using Popfly to do your design?

You have basically two choices in getting started with your game: 1. Pull out the crayons and start drawing game levels, if you are wanting to get started quickly, you will need to make it a side scroller like the template game: Platformer, which shows
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:43 AM

Creating a web presence, part 2

Creating Videos are an important in improving your web presence. Google YouTube is a popular way to go, but you are limited in the size and length of your video to around 10 minutes. To get around that limitations, one of the easy ways to get more time
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Friday, August 29, 2008 5:53 PM

Creating a web presence

As Dan Waters points on his excellent blog post about working in the game industry , you have to be known to be hired. If you are playing games on line, make sure to go for the badges and protect your gamertags. You need to blog, and you need to blog
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