February 2008 - Posts

27 February 2008
Free SkyDrive Online Storage now 5 Gigs!
[via Channel 10 (Sarah) via the SkyDrive team blog ] If you follow my blog, you know I've been using Windows Live SkyDrive to host my files and presentations for public download. It used to be cool that it gave you 1GB of free space for you stuff, but Read More...
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26 February 2008
"Essential WCF" on the Shelves!
On The Shelf! I popped in to my local bookstore (and ended up grabbing a copy of "LINQ in Action", which I've heard great things about) and what to my wondering eyes did appear, but hot-off-the-press copies of my latest authoring journey... " Essential Read More...
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25 February 2008
Boston XNA Developers Group Meeting Wednesday 2/27
A reminder that the first meeting of the shiny new Boston XNA Developers Group ( http://bostonxna.org ) will be this Wednesday, February 27th, from 6-8 PM at the Microsoft offices at 201 Jones Road (6th Floor) in Waltham, MA. The group is open to everyone Read More...
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21 February 2008
Huge XNA News at GDC '08
The XNA team made two very big announcements at the Game Developers' Conference . Cutting right to the chase, the biggest news is that the wait will be over for community XNA games on Xbox LIVE! Coming this holiday season, people will be able to share, Read More...
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19 February 2008
Briefing in Waltham for Microsoft ProDev Partners
There will be a half-day partner briefing event at the Microsoft Waltham office on April 14th for Microsoft Partners with a competency in building custom development solutions, or those with an interest in expanding their practice in that direction. The Read More...
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15 February 2008
Second Life's Second C# Day This Saturday (2/16)
Michael de la Maza is again assuming avatar form and appearing in Second Life to run a virtual world C# Day event on Saturday, February 16th! C# Day is a fantastic, non lecture-based way to learn C# programming with no previous programming experience Read More...
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07 February 2008
Announcing the Boston XNA Developers Group
Like games? Interested in creating your own using C#? I'm excited to announce that we have a new user group in the Boston area, focused on game development with the XNA Framework ! Join the Boston XNA Developers Group 's inaugural meeting on February Read More...
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05 February 2008
New Microsoft Research Center in Cambridge, MA
Some exciting news for New England. Microsoft Research has just announced that the One Memorial Drive, Cambridge offices (that I introduced earlier ) will be the location of our newest Research Center! The center, opening in July, will be the 6th such Read More...
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05 February 2008
Code Camp 9 - Registration and Call for Speakers Open!
Register Today! All systems are GO for New England Code Camp 9! CC9 will be on the weekend of April 5th and 6th - registration at 8:30, sessions at 9:00 - at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA. Register now (for free) at http://TheDevCommunity.org/CodeCamps Read More...
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01 February 2008
Mutli-Group Meeting - Thank You, David Chappell!
I wanted to extend my gratitude to David Chappell for visiting our special multi-user group event last night in Waltham. It was an inspiring, informative, and interactive talk, bringing context and an understanding of the importance of world of Software Read More...
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