December 2007 - Posts

Very funny (profane, but very funny)

The googleplex is now grubbing around inside code distros and indexing them -  of course, someone immediately got the bright idea to look for comments containing profanity - and this is the result -  quite funny - Thanks JeffD! Read More

Frameworks are a classic Make/Buy Decision

I’ve been wrestling with an issue at work and thought I’d publish some results.  I’ve run this by a few peers, and needless to say am exercising the great irresponsilbe freedom afforded by having one’s own blog, I’m Read More

So what's with Internet Explorer ?

The latest version of IE (7) defies description –  I’d love to say that it runs like a pig, but that would imply that it runs more often than it does, and in general would be an insult to pigs everywhere. Its not like the developers Read More

Slides from Microsoft GameDevDay 07 talk at Harvard

On Saturday, December 01, 2007 Dan Scherlis and I gave a talk about how game companies work at the Microsoft GameDev day at Harvard.  We both had a lot of fun giving this talk, and equally enjoyed the presentation from the folks at Second Life and Read More