The Portland White's

In case you haven't heard the news, the Seattle Code Camp will be happening in mid-November (11/15-11/16).  The location will again be DigiPen's main campus in Redmond.  I'm interested in attending, in carpooling, and in getting a cheap/free place to stay.  If you have similar interests or connections, email me at ...

Someone on the PADNUG mailing list asked a question about whether there was a cost to attend the PAXNAUG June meeting which will be held this week.  I typed up a quick reply which I thought I'd shared here as well.  And seriously, if you're interested in sponsoring PAXNAUG or PDXUX.Net, feel free to contact me.PAXNAUG is a free ...

Interested in developing games in XNA for your Xbox 360?  What about developing games in XNA for your Zune?  Ok, perhaps you don't have a Zune, but wouldn't you like to develop a game in XNA for my Zune?  PAXNAUG will be meeting this Wednesday and XNA MVP, George Clingerman will be presenting on just that, ...

Here's a blog post I never got around to writing from last year's GameFest.  The title just cracks me up, and yes, I'm one of those that laughs hardest at his own jokes.Kids + Xbox 360 + XNA Homebrew Games = Master Chief does Speak and Spell  Just one of the things announced at GameFest (from developermag.com).  This is ...

Yeah, I'm thinking of starting up an XNA user group.  Let me take that back, I'm not thinking about it anymore, I'm actually doing it.  The name of the group will be PDXNA and you can find it at http://pdxna.org/.  It won't offically start meeting until after the end of the summer.  My reasons for starting it up ...

Utah Code Camp I heard about the Utah Code Camp from Tim Heuer. It will be one day only on this Saturday, November 3rd. The sessions look really good, with some of the topics being XNA, Community Server 2007, Ruby on Rails. Sign-up to attend and perhaps even present a session. I won't be able to attend (too far for just one day), but for ...

I subscribe to Justice's blog.  It's good, it's funny.  He's not quite like Rory, but then again, who is. It was through Justice's blog that I first heard about the Alt.Net conference which was held in Austin over the weekend.  That led me to read and learn more about Alt.Net.  I spent a number of hours ...

Are you one of those folks just dying to play Halo 3 but can't because the wife won't let you get it? Well wait no more. Join me in attending this event on October 11th. There is a $25 entry fee. All proceeds are going to the American Diabetes Association. You do need to pre-register for the event (instructions here). It will be ...

Yep, you heard it right.  I currently don't have a playable Xbox 360.  (Actually that statement is not true right now, though it was true 2 weeks ago, but more on that later.)  Two weeks ago when my brother Scott was in town with his family my 360 decided it was tired of hanging out in Portland and wanted to head back to ...

As I've mentioned earlier, I have a long commute to and from work each day. Each day as I ride the MAX I try to either read an article, watch a webcast, write a blog post, or do some coding to pass the time effectively. Right now I'm working my way through a list of 20+ articles on Garbage Collection. Too many developers take GC for ...