Game Theory
A blog by Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist, Dan Waters
Moving along at Microsoft
After over four years as an Academic Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, I have been blessed with an...
Date: 06/01/2011
Imagine Cup: Windows Phone 7 Competition Finalists Announced
This morning, Microsoft announced the finalists for the various competitions in the Imagine Cup....
Date: 05/23/2011
Digital Audio Resources for Windows Phone 7
I’m at the Imagine Cup US Finals here today in my home base of Bellevue, WA, and I am presenting a...
Date: 04/10/2011
My Super Secret Kinect Project
What I’ve Been Working On Between Imagine Cup, writing apps and games, developing tutorials,...
Date: 04/01/2011
United States Imagine Cup People’s Choice Awards: Vote Now, Vote Often!
Students do incredible stuff, especially in the Imagine Cup. To see what I’m talking about, visit...
Date: 03/29/2011
ShedTrax - Super Simple Fat Loss & Lean Gain Tracker
I just released a new application which I wrote to help me monitor my progress through P90X, a very...
Date: 03/29/2011
Imagine Cup Windows Phone 7 Competition Round 1 Results
Congratulations to all of our fantastic Round 1 competitors in the Imagine Cup – Windows Phone 7...
Date: 03/28/2011
A preview of what’s next on this blog
I quickly realized that I posted something for another blog to this one by mistake. My apologies if...
Date: 03/24/2011
Donate to the Red Cross, UNICEF, Boys & Girls Club and More with Messenger 2011
You may remember a while ago when we had the i’m campaign that would donate money based on causes...
Date: 03/11/2011
How I Conceived A Simple WP7 App While Getting High – And Built It in 2 Hours
Boy, if that’s not an attention-grabbing headline, I don’t know what is. Thanks Randy Guthrie, I...
Date: 03/11/2011
New Book: 3D Graphics with XNA Game Studio 4.0
I have had the pleasure of reviewing a new book called 3D Graphics with XNA Game Studio 4.0 by Sean...
Date: 03/09/2011
Silicon Valley Web Camp Report 2/26/2011
This past Saturday, I was involved in a presentation to over 180 developers at the Silicon Valley...
Date: 02/28/2011
Three Easy Steps To Enter The Imagine Cup Competition
Tomorrow is the Round 1 deadline to enter for the Imagine Cup competition in the U.S. If you want to...
Date: 02/14/2011
The Super Successful Student Server – Development Environments for US Imagine Cup Teams
What is it? You’ve probably seen me blog about the fantastic Imagine Cup competition more than a few...
Date: 01/24/2011
Constructing, Drawing and Texturing a Cube with Vertices in XNA on Windows Phone 7
This may be a precursor to something bigger… I’m working on what I think will be a pretty cool game...
Date: 01/19/2011
Windows Phone 7, Azure and Push Notification Tutorial Series in C#
I’ve just finished my miniseries on integrating Windows Phone 7, Windows Azure, SQL Azure, WCF and...
Date: 01/18/2011
Phone + Cloud Series: Using a WCF Web Role To Register Phone Apps for Push Notifications
In the last post, we learned how to write an Azure worker role to poll stocks from the Yahoo!...
Date: 01/18/2011
How To Create a Windows Live Writer Twitter Plugin That Supports bit.ly
Don’t get me wrong; I love the Twitter Notify plugin that you can download for Live Writer (which is...
Date: 12/30/2010
Bitly Tweeter updated to version 1.2
Bitly Tweeter had a minor update today. It now allows you to customize how your blog posts appear by...
Date: 12/22/2010
New Windows Live Writer Plugin Available: bit.ly Tweeter
I just finished up the beta of this Windows Live Writer plugin. It automatically uses bit.ly to...
Date: 12/21/2010
Phone + Cloud Series: Configuring SQL Azure
Understanding the Data Model In most learning scenarios it is helpful to understand and define the...
Date: 12/14/2010
Into the Cloud with Windows Phone, Windows Azure and Push Notifications
The need for cloud computing (or at least an understanding of it) Windows Phone 7 supports “smart”...
Date: 12/13/2010
Imagine Cup: Northwest Tour Dates 9/27-11/9
If you’re a student and interested in building software to change the world, I may be coming to a...
Date: 09/24/2010
Rant: Useless Security Measures
I was recently on the phone with Register.com for one reason: to change my contact email address....
Date: 09/02/2010
Windows Phone 7 XML IsolatedStorage Example
For one of the apps I have been working on, I needed to persist a List<T> of T objects across...
Date: 08/31/2010
3D Level Editing for Windows Phone 7 Games (#XNA)
For future reference, everything discussed here is in the context of Windows Phone Developer Tools...
Date: 06/08/2010
[April Fools] Goodbye Seattle, Hello Florida
After only six months in Seattle, I’ve decided to return to Florida to work as a Developer...
Date: 04/01/2010
Exploring Microsoft Pivot, Live Labs’ Latest Creation
Microsoft Pivot is a new tool from Live Labs. What is pivot? According to the web site: Pivot makes...
Date: 01/18/2010
Upcoming Information on Zune HD: Inertia
Hey folks! I have been getting quite a few questions about the Zune game I have been working on...
Date: 12/22/2009
Fixed GuitarrMatey Links!
Hey out there, Internets! A bunch of my GO links expired and that left you unable to access the...
Date: 12/14/2009
Developing Communication Skills Presentation
Below is a presentation I just did for our Microsoft S2B Fall Webcast Series. You can download the...
Date: 11/04/2009
WPF Wave Synth is done!
Check this out: Maybe some more tweaks left, but it’s pretty much done. Notable tweaks: Each...
Date: 11/02/2009
Intro to Audio Programming Part 4: Algorithms for Different Sound Waves in C#
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Date: 06/25/2009
Intro to Audio Programming, Part 3: Synthesizing Simple Wave Audio using C#
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Date: 06/24/2009
Intro to Audio Programming, Part 1: How Audio Data is Represented
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Date: 06/22/2009
Video: Windows 7 HomeGroup
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Date: 04/02/2009
Details On My Upcoming XNA Book
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Date: 04/01/2009
The Pursuit of Jobs – My Keynote Presentation
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Date: 03/30/2009
Doing Homework in Windows 7
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Date: 03/23/2009
[Video] Win7 running on my Eee PC
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Date: 03/23/2009
Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0 is Published!
I received my first author copies of the book in the mail today and boy am I pleased with how it...
Date: 03/16/2009
[Video] IE8 Web Slices & Accelerators
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Date: 03/16/2009