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XNA

With the number of events I've been doing lately, it seems like I'm always scrambling to provide somebody with a picture or bio or session description. Now I can just point them here and they have a choice. Just one more step in my quest to make everyone else's lives easier.

PICTURES: 

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BIO:

Chris Williams is a Principal Consultant for Magenic. He is the founder of several .NET User Groups and the author of Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development.

He's also a DirectX / XNA MVP, MCT, MCSD (.NET) Early Adopter, MCAD, freelance game developer, conference speaker, vintage arcade game collector, INETA Community Champion & 4 year Board of Directors member, and plays a pretty mean guitar in Rock Band.

When not doing any of the above stuff, he can often be found in a Waffle House. He likes 'em scattered, covered and chunked. 

 

CURRENT TALKS:

Great Southern WP7/XNA Tour (SLIDES)
In this talk, Chris G. Williams will cover what's new in XNA 4.0, especially as it pertains to Windows Phone 7. He'll cover phone features, using the emulator and how to take advantage of the various sensors (like the Accelerometer) and features (MultiTouch, Gestures, Push Notifications, etc) in your games. Rumor has it, he may even have a phone with him.

What's this XNA thing I keep hearing about?
This session will cover what XNA is (and isn't) along with what's needed to develop with XNA 3.1. We will also cover target platforms of Windows, XBOX 360,  Zune and Surface. We'll go through some demos and take a look at some code, identifying key aspects of the XNA Framework and game development. We'll also discuss the Xbox Live Community Games.


 

Leveraging Social Networking / Social Media tools in your applications
Social networking sites, such as LinkedIn, BrightKite, Facebook & Twitter are growing at an incredible rate. In this talk, we'll take a brief look at some various forms of social networking tools and their respective APIs. I'll also demo building a Twitter client app using VB .NET, WPF and the Twitter API.



ARTICLES:

CoDe Magazine Sep/Oct 2008:  We are the Masters of the Twitterverse
CoDe Magazine Jan/Feb 2009:  8 Things Microsoft Didn't Show You in the ClickOnce Demos
CoDe Magazine Jan/Feb 2009:  Challenging IT Promotion
CoDe Magazine Mar/Apr 2009:  Dances with Workflows
CoDe Magazine Jan/Feb 2010:  Embracing Community
CoDe Magazine Mar/Apr 2010:  Embracing Community - Starting a User Group
CoDe Magazine May/Jun 2010:  Embracing Community - Give Camps
CoDe Magazine Jul/Aug 2010:   Embracing Community - Running a Code Camp
CoDe Magazine Nov/Dec 2010: Embracing Community - Becoming A Speaker
CoDe Magazine Jan/Feb 2011:  XNA 4.0 and WP7
 

WHERE I AM:

Please check "The List" for dates and locations.

posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 11:49 AM
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