XNA Game Studio is a development environment for creating games for Windows and XBox 360. And the XNA team has announced that XNA Game Studio 2 has been released and is ready for download. Lots of new samples and tutorials too. Cool stuff!
Microsoft Virtual PC uses virtual machine hard drive images as disks. These VHD files are typically dynamic in size, they grow as necessary. And I had one grow on me yesterday to over 40GB in size! Microsoft provides a Virtual Disk Wizard which can be used to compact virtual disks (when the virtual...
If you have yet to run into WebKinz , don't feel bad - it may just mean that your age is measured in double digits. For the uninitiated, WebKinz are stuffed animals that each come with a secret code that uniquely identify them. Armed with their stuffed animals, kids go to the WebKinz site, create a...
CNet is running a story entitled New players enliven open source summarizing important open source announcements and projects of 2007, stating that "In 2007, much of the open-source action happened outside the corridors of the usual corporate suspects." The story then lists several companies and...
CFWACK 8 Volume 3 - Advanced Application Development is now shipping (I received my copies a few days ago). Some of the new content includes server monitoring, .NET integration, working with data feeds, and more. More details on the book page .
The ColdFusion 8 edition of the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is now 1800 pages in 3 volumes. And that was not enough space for all we had cover. So, an additional 678 pages of content were published electronically in PDF form, and may be freely downloaded (whether or not you buy the...
The 2007 CFeMmys have been announced, and RIAForge has won for Best Community Site. Ray Camden gets much of the credit for this one, as he did the bulk of the work creating RIAForge and continues to do all maintenance and management. Still, as RIAForge was my idea (and I was the one who roped Ray...
Flex and LCDS positions available this week: Makana Solutions, Inc. (Lexington, MA) is looking for a Sr. User Interface Engineer for Flex development. Requirements include BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience, 7+ years experience developing and launching products, experience with...
Kevin Hoyt has updated his extensive collection of Ajax based AIR applications for AIR Beta 3 .
ILOG Elixir is a collection of UI components for Flex 3 and AIR . Included is an org chart, interactive gauges, map displays, charts, and more. You absolutely must check out the demos, and you can download a pre-release version, too. Very impressive stuff!