There is a programming environment of the Xbox360 called XNA.
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My Microsoft Buddies
Scott Barnes and I plot to take over the world:
Michael Kordahi just works out Apple does computers now, too
Scott goes over Large in Sydney
Brisvegas native Scott Barnes attended WebJam, BarCampSydney and AIMIA. I wonder how his liver takes it all. Excellent posts on his perspective on these shows.
This Microsoft web stuff intrigues me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
BarCampSydney: The Geek Stories
Not all the video I captured today will be used On10.net
So, rather than discard the bits: I’ve uploaded them to YouTube.
Follow the tag “BarCampSydney” or just look at this playlist.
My favourite: Geeks in Startups are Hot
fixed playlist URL, thanks mountainash
Uncle Mike: Munge Brother Pioneers
I had completely forgotten about the Munge History of video production.
In the early 1990s, when Adobe Premiere was a new thing, and Quicktime overshadowed anything Microsoft had until at least 1995 – we created this video.
Starring Uncle Mike, Uncle Paul, Uncle Peter (Peter Harris) and myself – the DOSBOX (original Munge Car) and Mike’s passion for windsurfing intersected my passion for the Newton PDA. We created this little advertisment as an advertisement for Random Access Consulting; or the Munge Brothers.
Coldfusion developer?
OK, this a little cheeky. I never got the “programming in XML” thing of Coldfusion. Give me PHP anyday. Photo from Barcampsydney
Programmers, start here
Another way to start programming: The new Beginner Developer Learning Center.
Inspiration from the Valley Vista Party
Stephanie Quilao, from Silicon Valley, recently hosted a Vista party. I wasn’t invited, sadly.
However: this guy was. He’s 12 and he’s programming using Visual Studio on Vista. We all want to know more!
Microsoft has the Express versions of Visual Studio available for free. That’s right, no cost.
Then pop over to Coding4Fun to see what you could code. Every day I have an idea that I would like to see written as a piece of software. Do you?
Ray Ozzie pops up
Prior to his appearance at MIX07, Ray Ozzie has talked at a Goldman Sachs conference.
Builder.com.au subtitles their report: “Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie doesn’t necessarily think Google has all the answers, but he does credit the company for opening Microsoft’s eyes.”
There is going to be more than one ‘google’ cloud in the internet sky.
Rent Microsoft Office for AU$25/year (buy for AU$75)
edit title for correctness and shortness. 9:30pm
Yes, I work for Microsoft. Let’s get that out of the way. The above link will find me, but please don’t send me OEM offers.
Every day I get spam’d to buy OEM Microsoft and Adobe products. For prices ranging from US$10 to US$175, and I can get Office or Adobe Creative Suite on some el-cheapo burnt CD from a fly-by night dodgy-brothers organisation based in a country that doesn’t exist in my school atlas. Thankfully, gmail and the corporate spam filters grab these bogus OEM offers and push the bits into email limbo. As my dad said, anything too cheap is always too good to be true.
As an Australian University Student, would you buy Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate for a year’s use at AU$25? Or the license for life for AU$75?
This is a brave effort by my current employer. Not just for the pricing and delivery method: but more for the reaction of students seeing Office at price that has been polluting the email system for the last 2 years. Students, a majority being some of the first of the Generation-Yers, have pretty keen senses of what is legit and what is not.Â
Will emails flow through their human spam filters?