Posted:
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:27 AM
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Filed under: Silverlight, Personal, Tech, Microsoft, XNA, Windows Live, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming and XBox, Greasepole
The Silverlight 2 Beta runs rings around the Silverlight 2 Alpha. However, the lack of hardware acceleration is very noticable (and relevant to an Image-oriented application like Legend of the Greasepole) when running at higher resolutions.
For a little perspective:
In 1998, the first version of Legend of the Greasepole was released.
Platform: Windows PC (95, 98, [...]
Posted:
Monday, March 24, 2008 10:12 PM
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robburke.NET |
Filed under: Silverlight, Personal, Tech, Canada, Microsoft, Photography, Windows Live, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming and XBox, Greasepole
The Legend of the Greasepole is a game that began its life on July 1st, 1996, when a group of Engineering students from Queen’s University in Canada decided they’d create a way to re-live their unexplainable annual tradition from the comfort of their long-suffering computers.
After last year’s XNA port, the release of the Silverlight 2 [...]
Posted:
Saturday, March 08, 2008 5:37 PM
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Filed under: WPF, Mix08, Silverlight, Tech Events, Tech, Microsoft, Windows Live, Research, Top Three
1. The Cirque du Soleil keynote demo, the most engaging articulation of WPF’s “richer, smarter, more productive line-of-business app” message since Avalon Healthcare.
2. More Microsoft Research innovation sees the light of day in the product groups and for developers at large. Deep Zoom becomes available to developers through Silverlight and demoed by the Hard Rock Cafe, [...]
Posted:
Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:45 PM
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Filed under: WPF, Mix08, Silverlight, Tech Events, Tech, Microsoft, Photography, Keynote, Windows Live, Steve Ballmer, Guy Kawasaki
Just got back from the Steve Ballmer / Guy Kawasaki keynote at this year’s Mix.
Is Guy ever not on form? He did a great job asking Steve the tough questions, making it fun, and getting a few candid answers, along with some “PR” answers as well, including Steve’s cautious response to “What about [...]
Head over to Tim Sneath’s blog for a list of all download links related to the keynote this morning.
I’ve just stepped out from the first Mix Keynote I’ve attended as a consultant rather than a Microsoftie. There was no real shocker in there, but it was a solid keynote and I am enthused by a couple of exciting announcements
Ray Ozzie began by saying he sees Mix08 as one of several milestones on a [...]