Jason Mauer set out to destroy the universe with Microsoft XNA at Silicon Valley Codecamp 2008. No, XNA is not a doomsday device from Microsoft. XNA can be a confusing term thanks to MSFT marketing, but in a nutshell it is a next generation game development platform for PC, XBox 360, and Zune. XNA, as [...]
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At this year’s Silicon Valley Codecamp, there was a large contingent of .NET evangelists in the speakers list. I attended yet another Silverlight presentation, this time given by Lino Tadros of Falafel Software. Most of the Microsoft technologist present at this years codecamp seem to be under heavy NDA, and they make it be known [...]
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Karthik Gurumurthy was at the Silicon Valley Codecamp 2008 to talk about Apache Wicket. Wicket is yet another Java based web framework. Wicket has a real nice separation between markup and code and consists of plain old java and plain old HTML. Unlike the other Java frameworks, Wicket has minimum configuration, zero XML files and [...]
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Sriram Krishnan wanted to defrag the room, it was a jam packed house like a tin of binary sardines, all for a new color from Microsoft, Windows Azure. Sriram Krishnan of Microsoft spoke at the Silicon Valley Codecamp 2008 on Microsoft’s new cloud computing initiative. From the onset Sriram warned the audience that the technology [...]
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Dave Britton of Vertigo was at Silicon Valley Codecamp 2008 and gave a presentation on Silverlight 2.0. Dave highlighted that there is a tight integration between ASP.NET and Silverlight. Silverlight also has rich tooling support with Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend. Dave also recommended Silverlight Spy, you need to be using Silverlight Spy if [...]
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Andres Almiray gave a presentation on Java 2D and Groovy at Silicon Valley Codecamp 2008. Andres started the session by highlighting some key benefits of Groovy’s language features. For example, in Groovy setters and getters are explicitly created for you by simply defining a property, semicolons are optional and the return keyword are optional. Parenthesis [...]
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