Year: 2006

Xbox Live Marketplace had nothing to do with it

…as I previously assumed. The download list update “slowness” was actually filtering caused by Parental Controls enabled on the console. Unrated content will be hidden. XNA Creators Club does not have any control on what code will be executed on the xbox. So the XNACC download is marked Unrated and thus hidden.

Michael, Program Manager for XNA Game Studio, and PatrickB3 probably knew this all along, they just wouldn’t tell me until right before Christmas. Turning off Parental Control on my console solved the mystery.

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Xbox Live Marketplace updates come slow

Yes, it seems that everything that gets added to the Xbox Live Marketplace doesn’t show up on my xbox until several days after release. XNA Creators Club is no exception. I was hoping to see my rotating greenish wired sphere in glorious 720p on 40″ LCD… guess I’ll just have to wait.

Update: after some postings on the forum, Michael Clucher and his XNA Team is now looking into the issue. I’ll keep you posted with the progress.

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XNA Game Studio Express launched?!

Now we know there’s a launch party going on over at Microsoft campus, Redmond. Does that mean we’ll get the released product today also? I certainly hope so. And my hope was rekindled when the download center listed both the XNA Framework Redistributable 1.0 and XNA Game Studio Express 1.0.Guess who’s downloading as we speak!

…my, this is so fresh, even the XNA Developer Center nor the XNA Team blog is updated with the news.

Update: now they’ve done it. Congratulations to the xna dev team, I’m truly looking forward to the times to come!

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The Abyss and the Bridge

Yesterday I attended a technical conference where the speaker talked about BizTalk 2006. I had brought along a couple of friends of mine, both keen to learn the new and cool stuff but lacking a multi-year IT industry background.

So I got kinda embarrassed when the speaker started talking about ESB and SOA and totally failed to mention what these acronyms stood for. Ok, so most of the audience probably knew what he was talking about but can you really assume that? How often do we put distance between us and “the others” (who more than often is saluted Dear Customer) by throwing “orchestrations” and “service busses” at ’em.

I tell you, I can feel myself at the edge of the abyss when I try to explain my latest project to my wife… God help me learn building bridges

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Vista on MSDN Subscriber Downloads

Sweet! Vista, both 32 and 64 bit versions, was made available for download yesterday evening. The iso image contains the following Vista editions:

  • Windows Vista Business
  • Windows Vista Business N
  • Windows Vista Home Basic
  • Windows Vista Home Basic N
  • Windows Vista Home Premium
  • Windows Vista Starter
  • Windows Vista Ultimate

..now I’m off to download a brand new operating system Smile

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