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Baltimore Zoo

In my last post, I mentioned taking a family trip to the Baltimore Zoo . For folks in the area who haven’t been there, I’d definitely recommend making the trip, as there are great opportunities to get up close with animals that you will rarely see. Here Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 06, 2008 10:39 AM by gduthie | 2 Comments
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InkSeine-ly cool

If you own a Tablet PC, or a UMPC, or even if you have a desktop PC with a graphics tablet and the tablet extensions enabled, this app is a must-have: Video: InkSeine from Microsoft Research - The Official Video InkSeine truly reinvents the pen-based Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:00 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

My Childhood Returns...

...courtesy of hulu.com : Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot Between this and Ultra Man, many after-school hours were well-spent. Thanks to Frank La Vigne for helping me find yet another way to lose hours from my day. And yes, I'm in a "fun-post" Read More...
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 10:29 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Software Development Meme - My Turn

OK, so Pete tagged me , and now I guess I'm it: How old were you when you first started programming? I would say around 10 or 11, judging from the release date of the Commodore PET , which was the first machine that I wrote code for. How did you get started Read More...
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 9:48 AM by gduthie | 1 Comments
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100 Years of Mystery

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event , a rather large explosion in Siberia, for which there is still not a definitive explanation (though most scientists favor either the meteorite or comet theory). The blast, estimated as somewhere Read More...
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 8:47 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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REMINDER: Geek Dinner Tuesday Night

Just a quick reminder that the Geek Dinner with Shawn Wildermuth will be held tomorrow night at Damon's in Chantilly, VA. If you haven't already, please RSVP by email to hold your spot (and help us get an accurate number for the reservation). It's shaping Read More...
Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 9:07 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments

zune game development with xna game studio 3.0

The XNA Creators Club website has a nice step-by-step walkthrough of creating a game for your Zune , including a cool sample game with very nice graphics and play style: Are you ready to start programming games for your Zune? All you need is the XNA Game Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:07 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments

]inbetween[

If you're going to either week of Tech-Ed this year (or even better, both), here's an event you'll want to check out, courtesy of Joe Healy, aka DevFish : ]inbetween[ weekend, June 7/8, Orlando Convention Center Attending Teched and looking for something Read More...
Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 1:45 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Proud to be a Geek?

Show it this Sunday : Geek Pride Day is celebrated May 25th. The date coincides with the premiere of the first Star Wars movie in 1977. Geek Pride Day has been celebrated since 2006, when it originated in Spain. It also coincides with Towel Day, which Read More...
Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 9:08 AM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Homestar rocks!

IsTwitterDown.com is now saying "of course," with the text linking here . As a reluctant twitterer (tweeter?), I find this just too amusing. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:15 PM by gduthie | 2 Comments
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3D LED Cube - Do Want

OK, so now I'm torn...should I pine for the day when I can have my own Surface device in my living room, or instead transfer my geeky affections to this incredible 3D LED animated display: I wonder if someone's already hard at work on a Quake 3 port to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:06 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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DO WANT!!!

Take a look at the video here , and see if you don't think this is potentially one of the most revolutionary things to happen to music in...I don't know...forever: Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time Read More...
Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 12:03 PM by gduthie | 1 Comments
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Terralever Silverlight case study

My colleague Tim Heuer shares a case study of a company building casual games with Silverlight: The group that brought you one of the first Silverlight end-to-end games ( Zero Gravity ) is now featured for some of the work they've done with Silverlight Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:11 AM by gduthie | 1 Comments

2 Cool Show Off Apps from MIX

One of the fun events at MIX this year was Show Off, which was basically a contest in which the live audience got to take a look at user-submitted videos of cool applications written using various new technologies, like WPF, Silverlight, and XAML, but Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 12:04 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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Hard Rock Memorabilia App

One of the coolest examples of Silverlight 2 that has been announced at MIX is the Memorabilia viewer app created by Vertigo for Hard Rock Cafe: The application allows you to drill down into a selection of the Hard Rock Cafe's massive collection of rock Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:32 PM by gduthie | 0 Comments
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