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Mostly software and music, some work, but all play
The kanji for "what", and birds' tails
If you were drawing a square, how many strokes would you use and in what order? You might be...
Date: 10/15/2015
Can we be a bit more authentically digital?
Be authentic (not skeuomorphic), they say. Be authentic to the digital domain. Don't just ape the...
Date: 09/10/2015
Video: Introduction to UWP and device families
My team just published a new video explaining the basics of app-targeting in Windows 10. Previously,...
Date: 07/10/2015
Two Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app samples on GitHub
The app-building virtual team I belong to (in Microsoft's developer content publishing organization)...
Date: 04/29/2015
The tools I use with my Microsoft Azure Web App
I wanted to share with you my positive experience with the Microsoft Azure App Service (of which Web...
Date: 04/18/2015
Anatomy of a simple musical composition
Limerick is a simple-sounding 19-bar (counting the pickup bar) piece in 4/4. It's slow, at 75 bpm,...
Date: 03/21/2015
An experiment in musical harmonization
UPDATE: well, that didn't work, sadly. In the Preview tab you get when writing a blog post, these...
Date: 03/03/2015
Want to learn how to program with Direct3D 11?
There are now 26 videos published to my YouTube channel, which you may be interested in. Most of...
Date: 01/11/2015
Move from Windows Phone Silverlight to WinRT
Larry Lieberman (product marketing director at Microsoft) and I chatted today about porting your...
Date: 12/16/2014
Video tutorials on setting up Direct3D, and a D3D Store app called Gravviti
If you've done Direct3D programming, or if you've taken a peek at the DirectX project templates in...
Date: 11/23/2014
Division by 0, this time; and how scaling might explain it
I have a book about math. And this book seems to be saying that the idea of a limit, in calculus,...
Date: 11/14/2014
Division is too hard: can we get rid of it? :)
Just a bit of philosophical rumination on the most basic math operators as they relate to (graphics)...
Date: 11/09/2014
If you take my meaning...
This post is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. But it's related to software, I guess, because it's about...
Date: 09/19/2014
Visual assets templates for Windows Phone Store apps now live!
I previously published these (temporarily) right here on the blog in case that unblocked anyone, but...
Date: 09/04/2014
Getting high with DPI and Windows::UI::Xaml::Controls::SwapChainPanel
I've been making some bad choices lately. Deleting code first, not debugging properly, not paying...
Date: 08/27/2014
Programming and writing are similar things
At least, that’s my opinion. They’re both ways of recording and communicating ideas, and...
Date: 08/20/2014
Windows Phone Store apps, visual assets
If you're building a Windows Phone Store app (meaning an appx app, not a xap app) then you may find...
Date: 08/14/2014
More Windows Phone apps published!
In addition to Interval Arithmetic...
Date: 08/14/2014
Trial experience sample for Windows Phone 8
In my previous post (Trial experience for apps, first steps), I was talking about my efforts to...
Date: 06/05/2013
Trial experience for apps, first steps
My Windows Phone app, Interval Arithmetic, implements a trial experience. The first thing I did when...
Date: 04/29/2013
Windows images, and dual-boot
Introduction Recently, I wanted to play with a preview of Windows (an image that I knew would be...
Date: 04/26/2013
My first Windows Phone app is published today!
It's called Interval Arithmetic, and here it is:...
Date: 04/16/2013