December 2006 - Posts

• MCTS Exam

  I took my first MCTS exam (application foundation) last Thursday. It was actually a lot tougher than I expected but what was interesting was that in many of the questions, you could eliminate 2 of the 4 choices almost immediately. Given that you only Read More... Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:05 PM by StanleyTan | 1 Comments

• Halo 3 Video Documentary on Brutes

  Very interesting video clip on brutes in Halo 3: http://www.on10.net/Blogs/duncan/halo-3-video-documentary-et-tu-brute/ If you're an avid Halo fan, this should get you quite excited about Halo 3. Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:35 PM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments

• Rocket Commander on XNA

  Rocket commander on XNA including source code: http://exdream.no-ip.info/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=442152d0-a014-47de-b9b1-4e8aed1d9bd3 Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:01 PM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments

• Playstation Magazine Editor Wants an XBox?

  Or rather, why the official Playstation magazine editor will get an XBox rather than a PS3: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=7344653&publicUserId=5380375 Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 11:20 AM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments

• Walk the Success Lane Seminar: Slides from NUS Session

  Here are the slides from the session by the National University of Singapore (NUS) describing the start-up environment in NUS. Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 26, 2006 3:14 PM by StanleyTan | 1 Comments Attachment(s): NUS-Hui Kwok Leong.pdf

• Merry Christmas!

  Slightly late for all of us here in Asia, but I'd like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Greetings from Microsoft Singapore: http://www.microsoft.com/singapore/xmas/default.mspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 26, 2006 2:26 PM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments

• Halo Video

  All hard core Halo fans, check this out!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLt5_ME_2_M Read More... Posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 9:02 AM by StanleyTan | 1 Comments

• Walk the Success Lane Seminar XNA Slides

  Here are the slides for the XNA talk during the last Walk the Success Lane Seminar. Read More... Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 4:44 PM by StanleyTan | 1 Comments Attachment(s): Introduction to XNA.pdf

• "Gears of War" wins No. 1 spot in U.S. video game sales

  http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-12-14T234613Z_01_N14429511_RTRUKOC_0_US-VIDEOGAMES-NPD.xml&WTmodLoc=TechNewsHome_C1_%5BFeed%5D-6 And more news on GoW selling some 2 million copies (some very interesting Read More... Posted Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:33 AM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments

• Walk the Success Lane Seminar (December 9)

  Thank you to all who attended the Walk the Success Lane Seminar last December 9 in the Microsoft auditorium. As promised, I'm posting Chewy's slides on Open XML development. Darren - if you're reading this, please send me your slides on XNA so that I Read More... Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 4:10 PM by StanleyTan | 1 Comments Attachment(s): Developing with OpenXML v1.pdf

• XNA Game Studio Express Released!

  Need I say more? Check out the official announcement on the XNA Team's Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2006/12/11/xna-game-studio-express-has-been-released.aspx Read More... Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 11:58 PM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments

• SMU Architecture Sharing Event

  Thank you to all the students who attended the architecture sharing session today in SMU. It's great to see you all attend despite it already being a school holiday (well, at least for some of you). I've attached the slides shared by Linda and Chewy. Read More... Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 6:12 PM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments Attachment(s): SMU Architecture Sharing.zip

• Interesting thoughts on the PS3

  I don't own a PS3, so I can't really say for myself, but these two guys are not impressed. But I can say that Gears of War on an XBox 360 is absolutely amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OJ8nwG___k Read More... Posted Sunday, December 10, 2006 12:02 AM by StanleyTan | 1 Comments

• Open XML is an ECMA Standard

  It's finally official. Today the Ecma General Assembly voted almost unanimously to approve the Office Open XML formats as an official Ecma standard. They also voted to submit the standard to ISO for fast track certification. The official press release Read More... Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 12:12 PM by StanleyTan | 1 Comments

• Is Microsoft Driving Innovation Or Playing Catch-Up With Rivals?

  WSJ asks this question to Winer and Scoble. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116490323676636989-HnHPKLzkyy9xKy2wnokbd2bc_bE_20071130.html Read More... Posted Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:59 AM by StanleyTan | 0 Comments