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The Channel 9/Channel 10 team is hiring
Thursday, June 28, 2007Hey folks, I work as the dev lead for Channel 9, Channel 10, Mix Online and other sites. We build community sites for Microsoft using video, audio and text blogging and we build them using the latest .NET technologies. If you are into web development, if you have a passion for design and user experience, and if you really rock at AJAX, Javascript, CSS, C# and ASP.NET .... then this is the job for you :) The Developer and Platform Evangelism Team is hiring a software design engineer to join the team that builds and extends Channel 9, Channel 10 [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Ratatouille preview article up on Xbox.com
Monday, June 25, 2007My latest kid-focused game article, which happens to be yet another movie tie-in, is about the upcoming Pixar film Ratatouille. Cool game, very nice looking... and it has entire missions around making recipes by spilling ingredients... just like how I cook at home! [read more...]Share this -
Internal Microsoft tool, eScrum, is available to the public...
Friday, June 22, 2007We (the dev team behind Channel 9, Channel 10, Mix Online, and others...)been doing scrum-ish development for a few sprints now, but we recently switched to using eScrum. This is a set of templates and tools for use with Team Foundation Server and it really rocks. There are few less-than-polished elements about the install and the web interface, but I'm glad they shipped it out for general use. You can read a good summary of eScrum on the blog 'A Developer's Life', which is also a good resource for lots of other Visual Studio related news. [read more...]Filed under | 3 comments »Share this -
Hey, I'm on Channel 10 ... just in time for Father's Day
Saturday, June 16, 2007I sat down to chat with Tina from Channel 10 to chat about my Xbox Dad articles, gaming with your kids, etc... [read more...]Share this -
Keeping in Touch, a new Xbox Dad article is live
Thursday, June 14, 2007It has been 'marketized' a bit from how I originally wrote it (with the addition of a product name right into the title for one), but a 'father's day' article from me is up on Xbox.com Keep in Touch with Xbox LIVE Vision Published June 13, 2007 It's an interesting time of year for Dads. High school graduation is just around the corner and college graduation has probably already happened. For some of you, this means that your son or daughter is moving out of the house, and there are going to be some changes in your relationship. As Father's [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Need to write a parser of your own?
Tuesday, June 12, 2007I haven't had to write a parser since university, but if I had to write one now I'd definitely be checking out Tommy Carlier's 10 part series showing how to write a parser for a demo programming language of his own creation. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Yet another Xbox Dad article up, this one on games for the K-6 crowd
Tuesday, June 05, 2007Family Gaming with the K-6 Crowd With Father's Day coming up, I've been thinking a lot about my own Dad and how I got into videogames as a kid. My parents, perhaps swayed by George Plimpton's television commercials, went out and bought an Intellivision for the family. It was to be a Christmas gift for all of us, not just for me and my brother. It was hooked up to the only TV in the house, right in the living room where we spent our evenings. Night after night, the four of us played games like Poker, Dungeons and Dragons, [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
If you are wondering where I get my Xbox Live info...
Friday, June 01, 2007A few people have emailed me or posted comments wondering how I grab the Xbox Info for the Twitter app and for my services. It is not from scraping and it is not from any publicly available source. I joined the Xbox Community Developer Program (XCDP), which is an official program designed to support folks who are building community sites (forums, reviews, blogs, etc...) around Xbox related topics. Many folks who want Xbox info, are not working on a large site like the people in the XCDP, which is exactly why I created my service. This way, people who are [read more...]Filed under | 7 comments »Share this
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