Monthly Archives: November 2007

Microsoft Surface SDK in action

Posted on November 27, 2007 by awfurtado

  How difficult will it be for us to create applications targeted at Microsoft Surface? Check the answer by yourself in the video below (click here if you can’t see it): http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swfVideo: The Microsoft Surface SDK In Action That’s one … Continue reading →

Posted in IT | 11 Comments

DSL Tools presentation at Tech Ed Brazil 2007

Posted on November 26, 2007 by awfurtado

  Next week, from Dec 05 to Dec 07, we’ll have the Brazilian edition of Microsoft’s Tech Ed, in São Paulo. As in the last year, I’ll be there doing a presentation on the Microsoft DSL Tools, entitled "Domain-Specific Languages … Continue reading →

Posted in Software Engineering | 8 Comments

Microsoft recruits again; check some interview tips

Posted on November 26, 2007 by awfurtado

  Microsoft’s recruitment is definitively a non-stop process. At least in Brazil, at each three or four months, I hear that some of the company teams are travelling here to start more recruitment loops (check a previous post on the … Continue reading →

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Book review: Domain Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools

Posted on November 26, 2007 by awfurtado

  Update: check also Steven Kelly’s (from Metacase) review of the book. I’ve just finished to read the book Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools (Addison-Wesley, 524 pages). Since it was written by the creators of the DSL Tools, … Continue reading →

Posted in Software Engineering | 5 Comments

XNA: not (only) a platform, not (only) an IDE, but an initiative!

Posted on November 25, 2007 by awfurtado

  Sometimes, I see some discussions about XNA in which it is argued that the whole thing is about providing new IDE (integrated development environment) to game developers. Others may think that XNA is only an API (application program interface), … Continue reading →

Posted in Games | 14 Comments

GREAT NEWS: XNA now works integrated with DSL Tools in the same environment!

Posted on November 23, 2007 by awfurtado

  As I’ve said in a previous post, the most important feature of XNA 2.0 for me was the ability to create my XNA games from inside Visual Studio 2005. Why? Because (1) it is not possible to deploy DSL … Continue reading →

Posted in Games | 15 Comments

new domain: afurtado.net

Posted on November 23, 2007 by awfurtado

  You can now access/share this space in an easier way: http://www.afurtado.net or http://afurtado.net. Both redirects you browser to here. []s— AFurtado

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Do you believe in casual games?

Posted on November 23, 2007 by awfurtado

  If you like digital games and have not left Earth this year, you may have heard about how "casual games" are the next big thing, how Wii and distribution portals such as Xbox Live Arcade are making a revolution … Continue reading →

Posted in Games | 8 Comments

Software factories illustrated

Posted on November 23, 2007 by awfurtado

  This link provides a series of 12 illustrations (and explaining text) that helps to understand the concept of software factories. []s— AFurtado

Posted in Software Engineering | 14 Comments

XNA 2.0 Beta available!

Posted on November 22, 2007 by awfurtado

  XNA 2.0 Beta was released, check it here. While multiplayer is the greatest focus of this release (and that is great!), I’m chiefly concerned with the feature that allows one to create XNA projects from inside Visual Studio 2005 … Continue reading →

Posted in Games | 15 Comments