Kirk Allen Evans's Blog.NET From a Markup PerspectiveI Bought Guitar Hero 3 for Father's Day. Ouch.- June 16, 2008 Yesterday was Father's Day in the US. We celebrated by going to GameStop and bought Call of Duty 4 and Guitar Hero 3. I made the mistake of putting in Guitar Hero 3 into the XBox 360 first. I played it straight for almost 5 hours. I have a freaking blister on my thumb, and my right wrist actually has a bruise from rubbing against the back of the plastic Les Paul guitar for 5 hours. I could not put the freaking thing down. I played on Easy level all night...http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/16/i-bought-guitar-hero-3-for-father-s-day-o... How to Build a Networked Zune Game with XNA- June 16, 2008 Dan Waters has a great video series as well as code download showing how to build a networked Zune game. How To Build a Networked Zune Game with XNA Series - Introduction How to Build a Networked Zune Game with XNA Series- Part 2, The Code Every time we go out to dinner and there are 6-8 kids all heads down at our table with their Nintendo DS games, my friends ask when Microsoft will provide a handheld gaming system. I really have no insight here, but hoping that the Zune ends up...http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/16/how-to-build-a-networked-zune-game-with-x... How Movies and Video Games are Made With Motion Capture at Motus- June 16, 2008 I finally got these videos posted! This was an incredibly fun day for me. I was fortunate to spend the day with Motus Digital in Plano, Texas. They are a motion capture and film studio, and they were kind enough to show me every bit of detail about how motion capture technology is used to create movies, TV shows, and video games. You might have seen some stuff on how mocap is done before, but this is a very real, behind-the-scenes look at the technology that enables...http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/16/how-movies-and-video-games-are-made-with-... Channel9 Interviews Posted- June 13, 2008 I have procrastinated forever it seems on getting some of my videos published onto Channel9. Well, I finally found some free time and got a few of the videos posted.Trends in the Media Industry with Brian O'Neil Brian O'Neil is a Solutions Architect with Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta. In this interview, Brian talks about the challenges that the media industry faces with storage and metadata, migrating from tape to digital, and how the investment in SOA is starting to pay...http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/13/channel9-interviews-posted.aspx SharePoint Firestarter Webcast Event- June 11, 2008 Wow! There are currently 265 people on the SharePoint Firestarter webcast event. This is a live event in Redmond that is being simulcast via LiveMeeting (click here to register). Very cool idea by Mithund, he embedded a chatroom into his blog and has the people attending via LiveMeeting and in-person in the room chatting. Thought I would embed it on my blog to show what the experience looks like. SharePoint is a hot topic lately. Just since I have been posting this,...http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/11/sharepoint-firestarter-webcast-event.aspx |