Wind Storm

We had a nice storm Thursday which knocked out power to one million people. Unfortunately, this outage also took my Comcast High Speed Internet connection with it. And there’s been so much news that I missed in such a short while.

  1. Top news: Microsoft posted the December 2006 DirectX update which includes a peak at [DirectX 10].
  2. Microsoft is hosting an XBox Live Arcade [programming contest].
  3. If you want to compete in the contest, it would be handy to have an XBox Live Arcade compiler. You may find the [Express XBLA compiler] that Microsoft just released useful.
  4. If you don’t know how to program the console that is ok too. Microsoft just released about how to program the XNA.
  5. Microsoft released their [Robotics Studio]. Robotics Studio gives the programmer a handy library to do embedded system programming.

Usually people harp on Microsoft, but this week we can see some good news.