Monthly Archives: December 2007

Marry Christmas, Happy 2008 and Happy Gaming with XNA 2.0

Posted on December 15, 2007 by awfurtado

  This is probably my last post in 2007. Therefore, I’d like to wish you Merry Christmas and an excellent new year. 2008 will be a year of many, many challenges, but we can talk about this in a future … Continue reading →

Posted in Games | 15 Comments

Here comes another bubble

Posted on December 14, 2007 by awfurtado

  Hilarious! [click here if you can’t see the embedded video below] []s— AFurtado

Posted in IT | 16 Comments

[UX Pitfalls] Compactless/unsorted information display and liar links

Posted on December 13, 2007 by awfurtado

  [This post is part of a series. To understand the context, click here.] Today’s User Experience (UX) Pitfall goes to Yahoo Groups. In the past, I was able to see all my groups in a single page, in a … Continue reading →

Posted in User Experience | 24 Comments

Far away from “informaticity”

Posted on December 13, 2007 by awfurtado

  In a previous post, when this blog was still written in portuguese, I’ve started (actually, tried to start) a series of posts presenting real-world examples of how end-users’ life in our IT world… sucks. The point in which I … Continue reading →

Posted in User Experience | 16 Comments

Game development: learning from practice

Posted on December 12, 2007 by awfurtado

  Which is the most important part of a (digital) game? While you think about this, let me share some insights from an interview [pt-BR] that a brazilian test manager from the XNA Live Server group did to a brazilian … Continue reading →

Posted in Games | 7 Comments

Screen Transition Language on its way

Posted on December 11, 2007 by awfurtado

  "ScreenTransitionLanguage" is one of the domain-specific languages (DSLs) I’m developing to automate XNA game development. I’m planning to design other languages as well, such as to define entity state (ex.: jumping, attacking, etc.) or to declare which game entities … Continue reading →

Posted in Software Engineering | 19 Comments

TV + Xbox + Media Center + Messenger

Posted on December 11, 2007 by awfurtado

  Xbox 360 is a Windows Media Center Extender, which makes it possible to access Media Center through the console. The last Xbox 360 update now also makes it possible to use MSN messenger from within the console. Putting everything … Continue reading →

Posted in IT | 19 Comments

First day at Microsoft: experiences from other people

Posted on December 7, 2007 by awfurtado

  My friend Renato Guimarães pointed me to some nice posts (here, here and I found other here) that discuss about how it feels to start working for Microsoft. Valuable insights from text and comments: "The great part of course … Continue reading →

Posted in Career | 13 Comments

Microsoft Tech Ed Brazil – feedback (so far) and DSL Tools resources

Posted on December 6, 2007 by awfurtado

  Today was the second day of Microsoft Tech Ed Brazil, in São Paulo. Tech Ed Brazil is the most important Microsoft event in Brazil and the fourth biggest Tech Ed, in size, of the world. Yesterday, in the opening … Continue reading →

Posted in IT | 5 Comments

A tribute from Microsoft Brazil and Pernambuco State to Team Trivent Dreams

Posted on December 4, 2007 by awfurtado

  Tonight was a very special night for us (Team Trivent Dreams, winner of the Imagine Cup Korea 2007 Embedded Development Invitational). Microsoft Brazil has chosen our hometown, Recife, to settle its headquarters for the North/Northeast regions of Brazil. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Imagine Cup | 10 Comments