I’ve got a new Windows Phone
Unfortunately it’s not real. Like many other facets of my life, it exists only within the mind of my computer. However, it does work, and I can write programs for it using the latest version of Visual Studio.
If you want your own Windows Phone 7 Series device you can head over to here to perform a one stop download that gives you all the tools you need, including Silverlight, XNA and the emulator.
If you are feeling rich (or are a student on Dreamspark) you can even signed up for the Developer experience here.
Rob
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iPhone Game Development Lecture
One of our ex students (I only know him as @orta!) is giving an iPhone development talk in the department on Wed, March 17, 3:15pm in Lecture Theatre A in the Robert Blackburn Building. He has had his iPhone apps published (and even featured in Apple commercials) and so it should be well worth turning up.
Rob
..and I'll be doing a talk on Windows Phone game development in Week 8 after easter...
What’s Wrong with this Picture
Some time ago I bought a book about Actionscript development. Paid full price too. I wanted to find out more about the language that powers my Chumby device. In the section on working with date and time values I found the following gem.
Did they test this? What time value did they use?
I had to show this to number one son to make sure that wasn’t going mad…
Mega Open Day Madness
Some of the audience. Captured with the big camera.
We had a really big Open Day today. Really big. We used the big lecture theatre and I had to do my talking bit twice. Because the Open Day was so big.
Great fun though. Two very good audiences, thanks for coming along folks and I hope you found the day worth the trip. I took the proper camera with the wide angle lens, the tripod and the remote release to guarantee the quality of the pictures. Unfortunately I then left the lens on manual focus and so most of the pictures came out a bit blurred….. Oh well, I’ll know for next time.
There was even a jazz band in Staff House. Good stuff.
Rob
It seems like at least two people who attended on Saturday have bought a copy of my book! Well done folks, let me know how you get on.
Imagine Cup Game Development Competition Entries Close on Monday
The title says it all really. I had got it into my head that we had until the end of the month to get our entries together. Cue some meetings today to take a look at what we have and plan a weekends of frantic coding…
If you want to get your entries in, head over to here to register and get involved.