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Death of a mentor, actually two

The last couple of weeks - despite the celebration that gamefest 2008 provided naturally around the...

Author: Betsy Date: 07/25/2008

Gamefest 2008 - Beans spilled for the bean counters, a good booth day

I am back to the salt mines after a day of booth babin' at XNA Gamefest. It was very cool to see all...

Author: Betsy Date: 07/23/2008

Getting Ready for Gamefest 2008, hurrah for Torpex!

Hurrah Torpex! I remember the demo of this game Schizoid at last year's Gamefest booths..such a wild...

Author: Betsy Date: 07/14/2008

Seeing the community's XNA games on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace

So I went home early today with a snoggy head cold...which gave me the perfect excuse to try out the...

Author: Betsy Date: 05/22/2008

Welcome to the XNA Community Games beta!

So, it all begins here. Writing a game that someday thousands of people will play on their Xboxes....

Author: Betsy Date: 05/21/2008

Hurrah! We launched the XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP!

....talk to Let's Kill Dave for more details! Can you say - changing the game on a Zune?

Author: Betsy Date: 05/07/2008

XNA MVPs Rock! and Red Hair

I had one afternoon and one evening this week with our beloved XNA MVPs and it really was a treat....

Author: Betsy Date: 04/17/2008

Coming for Holiday 2008 - Community Games on Xbox LIVE Announcement at GDC

Finally finally finally I get to blog about this. :) This is the team I am on you know - I am a pm...

Author: Betsy Date: 02/20/2008

Gotdotnet - 2000-2008 - Never Say Die

It launched on Nov. 15,2000 by a hardy team of renegades.It was the first .NET site built by...

Author: Betsy Date: 02/16/2008

Making a 2D XNA Game - When Cods Collide - The Final Chapter

In previous posts you've seen me walk you through and discuss the XNA 2D Collision detection sample....

Author: Betsy Date: 02/10/2008

Making a 2D XNA Game - When Cods Collide Part 1

To make the most use of this and its subsequent post, you should download the XNA 2D Collision...

Author: Betsy Date: 02/09/2008

My First Sprite - the Bouncing Cod

Folks that have been reading my blog know that since I joined the XNA team, I have had this desire...

Author: Betsy Date: 12/26/2007

XNA Game Studio 2.0 released!

My man Michael Klucher ( who was up all night incidentally, as was Dean) has more of the info you...

Author: Betsy Date: 12/13/2007

I'm not green, which is why I am still at work

Here's the dilemma. If I were to have taken the bus, I'd be home now. (though perhaps after a more...

Author: Betsy Date: 11/08/2007

Microsoft Women's Conference 2007

Yesterday was the first day of the conference, and before I descend into "I'm about to speak on a...

Author: Betsy Date: 10/25/2007

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture - A dude who lives it vivid

You can find everything here.... https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/ This has been going around the...

Author: Betsy Date: 10/18/2007

Blogher07 Chicago: First day update, including my community panel

Nights before I have to "present" in any way at conferences are always weird. I dream I miss the...

Author: Betsy Date: 07/27/2007

At Chicago Blogher07 - a fascinating place so far

After the incredible delayed plane and luggage hunt, Chicago emerged as fielding the wet-warm-towel...

Author: Betsy Date: 07/26/2007

Getting to Blogher07, or, virtual reality vs. reality reality

Reading about how the Internet went down (well a key datacenter went out ) as my butt is parked in...

Author: Betsy Date: 07/26/2007

Josh Ledgard, Death Bunnies, and a cool drink of lemonade

First off, it was sad to see Josh Ledgard go...although in working on the sites that Telligent...

Author: Betsy Date: 07/11/2007

Speaking at Blogher in Chicago this July

Yay! I am going to be with a panel with other cool bloggers speaking about building online...

Author: Betsy Date: 06/07/2007

The Ofone made my day!

Engadget's summary of the Microsoft Ofone made my day. I'm actually going to replace my current...

Author: Betsy Date: 05/09/2007

Jason Calcanis - You Thin, Thin Thing :)

OK this is awesomely post modern. Robert Scoble links to Jason Calcanis post, whereupon I follow it...

Author: Betsy Date: 04/27/2007

Virginia Tech Shooting In Memoriam - Powerpoint Poster

One of the testers in Office apparently made a community template in honor of the slain. Mark...

Author: Betsy Date: 04/25/2007

Mother's Day Present: She's Such a Geek

Mom, don't read this. :) Last night I went to the book reading for She's Such a Geek. I bought two...

Author: Betsy Date: 04/17/2007

I'm not at Mix07 but you should be

Nah, there's no high drama about this female blogger not going to Mix. I ain't been invited to...

Author: Betsy Date: 04/02/2007

Daylight Savings Time reminder

I will be at South by Southwest when this happens and hopefully all it means is I will sleep late....

Author: Betsy Date: 03/06/2007

Saturday night ramen, and some great blogosphere gems

Early on when I started blogging, I used to do this... You know, just wander around blogs I liked....

Author: Betsy Date: 03/04/2007

Betsy Does Austin: South by Southwest Interactive and 20 x 2

I'm honored to be among the speakers at South by Southwest Interactive this year. Our panel is...

Author: Betsy Date: 02/20/2007

Ignite Seattle - do you want eggs with that?

I have been downed with a cold for the past week or two and have not been at my best, so I could not...

Author: Betsy Date: 02/14/2007

99% inspiration, 1% perspiration

So 2007 is a year where I want to focus on inspiration. Last year, I set out to thank as many of my...

Author: Betsy Date: 01/24/2007

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