No Seriously, I’m Still Here…
Time is a funny thing, a week goes by and everyone keeps plowing through work. One week becomes two, then a month, then you look at your neglected blog and realize that it’s been two months since you posted something on it. Sure it could be argued that all the cool kids use Twitter anyway, but once and a while you still need to say something longer than 140 characters.
All of us on the XNA Development Platform team are keeping busy as always. We’re working, thinking, dreaming, and the occasional viewing of pictures of Rhys in all types of interesting ways through the XNA Framework. It keeps me busy, so sometimes getting everything I want to write down falls to the backburner. If you have interesting topics that you’d like to hear about, drop me a line. Most of the time my silence on the blog is just because I’m not sure I have anything interesting to say!
One of the other things on my “blog to do” list is to try and get a decent theme running on my site, sadly this means that I also need to look at a new blogging platform as the support for GraffitiCMS has veered off a bit in the last year and there simply isn’t that much community support for it right now. I’m of course I’m trying to stick to the .NET platform so I’ve been keeping a close eye on Oxite and Atomsite. Oxite seems still pretty early in development, but looks really promising! Atomsite also looks a bit early in development but seems deployable and has a lot of neat features. The biggest blocker for me is that I’m not a CSS expert and there really aren’t any blogging themes available for either platform yet. Maybe I’ll spend some time putting something together, but without really good CSS knowledge I’ve been struggling at the simplest of tasks. If you have any ideas around this stuff, or maybe a great .NET blogging platform with a lot of themes available let me know!
Finally while these could easily be tweets there were a couple of random pieces of XNA Game Studio related news that was passed our way that I wanted to make sure everyone knew about:
- NxtGenUG (A UK based XNA user group) is holding a “NxtGenUG XNA Day” event for £10 that includes a day of sessions built around game development in XNA Game Studio. Find out all the details here: http://www.nxtgenug.net/ViewEvent.aspx?EventID=246
- Don’t forget that Gamefest 2010 is going to be here faster than you think! Head to http://www.xnagamefest.com/ where you can sign up to be notified when we start the registration process!
Again, Shoot me your ideas, questions, etc and give me something to write about. It’s a great way to pass the time and be productive!
