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Microsoft first unveiled its Project Spark game maker project back at E3 with a promise of a launch later this year. Today at Gamescom, Microsoft is revealing it will launch Project Spark beta for Windows 8 in October. Project Spark is essentially a game maker within a game, letting players build custom worlds, characters, and animations from an Xbox One, PC, or through a SmartGlass app. Everything is customizable, and you can even share the finished game, or edit other friend's projects. "Do you want to play a game?"
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Yes, it's true! I'm the author of ping for UNIX. Ping is a little thousand-line hack that I wrote in an evening which practically everyone seems to know about. A short bed time story about where all those packets have gone
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Today, on the two year anniversary of releasing Bootstrap to the world, we're shipping Bootstrap 3.0. It's been a crazy long ride to say the least and we're stoked to finally have this out in the wild. Thanks to everyone who's tested our RCs (er, betas), reported bugs, and contributed code. We couldn't have done it without you beautiful nerds. If you're not using Bootstrap to build your Web site, you're just not using Bootstrap to build your Web site
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Thanks to some good timing, I'm using Bootstrap 3 for a site I'm building.
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A software engineer’s take on the new education call to arms. You must use this much of your brain before entering ride
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Totally.
And that relates to this week's poll as well. There needs to be entry-level/hobbyist languages and tools for any who just need to do some casual coding.
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Quote: entry-level/hobbyist languages and tools
Isn't that the definition of VB.NET and Visual Studio Express?
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You'd think so, but no. Certainly not Visual Studio; it's definitely not for beginners. And VB teaches too many bad habits.
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VB, yes, but not VB.NET. For all their arguments to the contrary, it was C# without semi-colons. I think you needed to be more of a programmer to create something with VB.NET, while you could play around with VB for a while and have "something that worked"™ .
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TTFN - Kent
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: There needs to be entry-level/hobbyist languages and tools for any who just need to do some casual coding.
Oh, absolutely.
There is a definite need for little solutions, and I hope that the author of the piece sees that as well. I just don't think (and I think this was his main message as well) that there really needs to be a migration path between little solutions and enterprise/marketable products. I loved Hypercard and VB, but I definitely wasn't going to write Word in either.
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TTFN - Kent
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When a phrase enters the tech industry lexicon in a big way, and has a good way of crystallizing a seemingly overarching trend, it’s usually not long before the very same phrase becomes a victim of its own overuse and is dismissed as “all hype.” Yea, though I pass through the Trench of Disillusionment...
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A few months ago we announced that a preview of Skype video calling and messaging was starting to arrive in Outlook.com. Today we are excited to give you an update: Skype for Outlook.com is now fully available in several countries around the globe including the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, France, Canada, and the United States. For those of you outside those countries, we're still working hard to ensure this is available worldwide in the near future. "Call me, maybe?"
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I didn't care for Skype before Microsoft bought them out.
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After a 30-year run in the enterprise, once-dominant server OS is getting 86ed by x86es "That is not dead which can eternal lie"
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To pave the way for rapid interstellar travel, NASA propulsion researcher Harold "Sonny" White plans to manipulate space-time in the lab "Engage"
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In an odd turn of events, Windows 8 has been banned from HWBot, one of the world’s top benchmarking and overclocking communities. "Time keeps on slipping, slipping"
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"...
And you run and you run
To catch up with the sun
But it's sinking
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One of the few earworms I feel proud to spread.
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TTFN - Kent
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For the obligatory "tick tick tick tick" reference, my 5.
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The rise of mobile applications has transformed the way we talk about technology. Rule of thumb: It's software if it costs more than a dollar
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When was the last time you scanned a QR code? What was that?
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Jumps on XP-is-doomed bandwagon as it urges everyone to put down the OS "Survival rule #1: Cardio."
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Good.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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It took a lot longer than expected and survived a mid-stream course correction, but the initial shipping version Paul Thurrott's Windows Phone 8 is now complete. This e-book is free and is my gift to the Windows Phone community. All you need to know about WP dev, but were afraid to ask
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It's a job seeker's market, if you've got the right tech skills. IT opportunities span multiple industries and skill levels, staffing firm says Dance, monkey, dance
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