I'M BACK ...

Yes, it's true. Please don't cry: you knew I would continue to terrify you with my "regular" posts ... :)

My short holidays are now gone, so back to work, filtering email messages, daily worries, and, ... well, you all know ... :(

Anyway, it was good while it lasted ... ;)

What has been going on in the XNA world? A LOT! At least, according to XNAtutorial's Weekly Update: new sites, new source codes and new tutorials. The list is impressive.

In other news: Shawn Hargreaves' has yesterday announced that a new blog from another XNA-Team member has kicked off, Dean (Johnson)'s XNA Blog, with an opening article that discusses the math to rotate 3D objects (a great way to start, IMHO).

Also, I must tell you that the week before I started my holidays I was checking a couple of sites with tutorials worth following:

• The Ramblings of a Hazy Mind: you'll find quite handy articles about 3D, scene management and XNA -not only for starters. Michael's has posted his 11th tutorial for a Complete Octree Functionality in XNA, and
• Riemer's XNA Tutorial: great series of articles from the grounds up now mainly related to XNA; you will still find the old ones for C# and Managed DirectX (as well as for C++, and VB). Also, pay a visit to Riemer's forum for news, corrections, suggestions, questions and general topics.

Remember one of my last yearend's posts "XNA: COUPLE OF NEW FRAMEWORKS"? Well, people in the XNA Community is now becoming aware and or starting to pay more attention to 'XNA Magic'. Told ya, the demo videos catch one's attention, indeed.

Any news regarding the "Dream, Build, Play" contest? I have checked the site but there's no additional info yet about the exact starting date of the contest, deadlines, prizes, rules, etc.

Well, that's pretty much it, don't you think? A lot to check & read, so I better start a.s.a.p.

'till next time!

[BTW, thanks Lawrence (a.k.a. 'Sharky') for your support to my blog ... ;) ]

I WILL BE OUT FOR A WEEK ...

Yes, don't be sad. I'm taking a week off.

Having worked on a project so hard lately (not related to videogames) that I need to some holidays.

See ya in a week. Don't miss me!

FREE SOFTWARE GIVEAWAY TO UK DEVELOPERS?!!!

If you were amazed by my previous post, just read on ...

Ian Moulster has posted in his newest blog entry that they " ... are giving away 1000 free copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 to UK developers ...".

In order to be elegible to recieve one and or the other product, you will need to register on Friday 19th for the software giveaway (details to be announce later on Ian's site, I guess), and then answer one question related to the selected product's track and then, if you are on the first 1000 people that answer it right you get your free copy.

If you live outside the UK, just hold your horses and continue reading Ian's entry since there's a catch: " ... you need to have a UK address ..." in order to receive the product.

Isn't Life fair sometimes? I don't know about you, but I'm moving to the UK just right now ...

Well, maybe next time ... but I'd really loved not to be excluded a priori from this kind of giveaways sometime ... ;)