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The XNA Team announced the CTP of the XNA Game Studio 3.0 today : Today, we are delivering the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of XNA Game Studio 3.0, giving you the ability to build games for the entire family of Zune media devices. This
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I just recently found out that I passed the WF 3.5 beta exam (well, actually I passed it some time ago but it took Prometric, the world's worst test provider, a while to figure out how to send the score to Microsoft). So here is my new logo: Since they
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I went to install Live Mesh on my Windows Server 2008 Laptop just now and got this lovely message: I had run with UAC enabled for some time but finally got tired of all the flashing and waiting that goes on whenever I start Hyper-V manager, want to change
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Back in January I posted my goals for the year of exercising, regular blogging, and better time management. I was doing pretty good on the first two until I was staffed on an out-of-town project which made exercising more difficult and took all my time
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Last year I made a new years resolution to start exercising and get back in shape. Knowing myself fairly well I new that I needed to take a phased approach where I would start with working out one day a week and doing one bike ride per week and then each
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Each time I set this up I always have to google to remember how to do it. The last time I set it up I came across James Kovacs' post on the subject which works great. The only thing I usually end up adding is the --listen-port=x since many clients do
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I'm at home today with a sick wife helping take care of the kids, so I had time to take the transformer quiz [via Guy Burstein ]. I AM 69% OPTIMUS PRIME Take the Transformers Quiz
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Via Tim Heuer I read about Kirk's xbox contest : To help fill those seats, we are giving away two XBox 360s to people simply who blog about the event with some pre-canned text. The first XBox 360 will be given away during the keynote at the Los Angeles
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Today at MIX the Silverlight.net community site was announced. Along with that announcement Microsoft has closed the old WPF/E forums : These forums are retired. To join the conversation about Silverlight, please go to the new Silverlight community home:
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This morning my wife gave birth to our second son, James Eugene Likes. My wife did great and the baby is happy and healthy. It was a very exciting night! :) Our first son Alexander is very excited about his new little brother and is having a great time
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One of my blogging habits to to blog about my own technical difficulties. Since I am the IT help desk for all my friends and family, when I encounter something that I can't figure out I usually blog about. Since google ranks blog posts very high in its
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Jeff Atwood asks Do Certifications Matter ? Personally I think there are two main uses for certifications: Inexperienced developers trying to break into that first job Experienced developers who want some decorations In the first case, even though they
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This post should get cross-posted automatically to my Avanade blog . Does it work? Update: It works! If you want to set this up go here for some great instructions. Now I don't have to manually cross-post to both blogs. Update2: Seems the initial post
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My youngest brother-in-law Boogs has a computer that I helped him to build. We have been trying to upgrade it with Windows Vista since RC1 was released but we always ended up with a BSOD. Today I spend some time trying to troubleshoot it and figured out
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When I upgraded from Vista Pre-RC1 to RC1 I used the built in backup program to backup my files. It worked very well for me so when I was upgrading from the Sept CTP to RC2 I decided to use it again. I also put a little more confidence in it and didn't
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