Site Archives for June 2007


The Channel 9/Channel 10 team is hiring

Posted on June 28th

Hey 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 experi […]

Ratatouille preview article up on Xbox.com

Posted on June 25th

My 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! […]

Internal Microsoft tool, eScrum, is available to the public...

Posted on June 22nd

We (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 el […]

Hey, I'm on Channel 10 ... just in time for Father's Day

Posted on June 17th

I sat down to chat with Tina from Channel 10 to chat about my Xbox Dad articles, gaming with your kids, etc... […]

Keeping in Touch, a new Xbox Dad article is live

Posted on June 14th

It 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 […]

Need to write a parser of your own?

Posted on June 13th

I 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. […]

Yet another Xbox Dad article up, this one on games for the K-6 crowd

Posted on June 5th

Family Gaming with the K-6 Crowd […]

If you are wondering where I get my Xbox Live info...

Posted on June 2nd

A 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 […]