September 2007 - Posts

Halo 3 or Gears of War?
27 September 07 04:56 PM | Hans VB | 9 Comments   
I'm huge fan of Gears of War and I never played Halo 1 or 2 on my own console. Now I've been playing Halo 3 at home for a couple of hours and I feel I can take a first stab at comparing these games. Graphics: When I was playing multiplayer Halo 2 at my Read More...
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Tech Ed Developers: 3 more days for Early Bird Discount
24 September 07 09:37 AM | Hans VB | 0 Comments   
Nice promotional clip for Tech Ed Europe (Tech Ed Developer and Tech Ed IT Forum). How are those type of constructions called again? Video: TechEd Europe 2007 promotional video Read More...
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Are people still getting Microsoft Certifications?
23 September 07 08:32 PM | Hans VB | 2 Comments   
You bet. I didn't know we published these numbers but we do: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certified.mspx SOme interesting points. More .NET developers certify on Web applications than on Windows Applications. There haven been more Visual Studio Read More...
Get a sneak peek of Astoria at the SOuthampton launch event of the nextgenug
21 September 07 09:36 AM | Hans VB | 0 Comments   
If you can't wait for Tech Ed Developers Barcelona to hear about Astoria the you are lucky when you live in Southampton UK. On the 18th of October the NextGenUG is having there opening event over there and Guy Smith Ferrier is delivering a preview on Read More...
How flash developers work
14 September 07 06:00 PM | Hans VB | 3 Comments   
This is funny. It comes from a flash designer/developer's blog . Imagine having to write a single line of code like that! In his last posts , he also writes a good story about how he as a Flash designer sees Silverlight. Very interesting read. Read More...
Vista tools
11 September 07 06:21 PM | Hans VB | 3 Comments   
OMG, what a list this is! http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2007UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx How do you compile such a thing? It's beautiful madness! This one I love a lot! Vista Codecs: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5326 Read More...
WinFS lives on (in SQL Server 2008), .NET My Services not so much
05 September 07 10:18 PM | Hans VB | 1 Comments   
Years ago, I toured Europe and talked to about 10.000 people about the wonders of WINFS that was going to be released with Longhorn. As we know, WInFS got axed and it felt like I wasted around 750.000 man-minutes (it was a 75 minute talk). Today I was Read More...
Halo 3 HD clips op msn...
05 September 07 08:26 PM | Hans VB | 0 Comments   
Halo 3 is about to be released and Silverlight was released today . What a great combination :-) These Halo clips are so great. If that were real gameplay?! I guess we'll have to wait a couple of years before the visuals will be that advanced. http://halo.msn.com/videosHD.asp Read More...
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