Chris G. Williams

Pardon the interruption of the regular MonoGame blog series, but this is important. There’s a new version of MonoGame now available!!

Now that you have MonoGame & Visual Studio installed, go ahead and create a MonoGame Windows Project. You can call it whatever you want.

I’ve had a few folks ask me for a good “Getting Started” tutorial for MonoGame over the last year and I’ve done a few talks on the subject, but hadn’t…

You’re thinking about getting into game development, and you’re trying to decide how to get started. There are a number of great reasons to go with…

You’re going to need an IDE. If you’ve been developing for a while, you probably already have one of your own, or at least a preference. If you’re…

Hey everyone, I'm working on an open source library involving Bitcoin and I was wondering how many (if any) of you are currently working with…

In 24 short days\, my (along with the awesome George W. Clingerman) first book will be released: Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development: Creating…

TCCC7 is just around the corner (this weekend!!) and it looks like this one will be the biggest ever (again.) We have a terrific lineup, featuring intro…

Talk about a guy who needs no introduction… if you’re in the technology industry, or \gasp\ a software developer in the Microsoft space, but haven’t heard…

While at PDC08, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Microsoft Developer Evangelist Extraordinaire, Jennifer Marsman. I'd love to lie to you…

Sorry for the delay in getting these videos out. I have been busier than ever over the last few months, including a travel gig to South Dakota and lots of…

edit: an amendment to this review is posted here. Before launching into this review, there are maybe a few minor points I should address.

While at PDC08, I had a chance to have a brief chat with NINE Questions alum Beth Massi between the sessions. Beth gave me her thoughts on what she's…

While at PDC08, I managed to corner Richard Campbell in the food court and asked him these NINE Questions on video. Enjoy...

I've known Kirstin pretty much since she came to Magenic, and she's one of the smartest (and most energetic) people I know. Shortly after joining our…

Rob's one of my community buddies that I run into at various conferences and online of course. In addition to being a VB MVP, he's been around the UG and…

I've known Jason pretty much since I moved up to Minneapolis, although I had heard of him long before that via his books and the Magenic tech lists. In…

I first met Liza and the Lullabot gang at the Iowa Code Camp and started following her on Twitter the same day. She's got a pretty interesting story, but…

I first met Chris at the Twin Cities Code Camp pre-party in the Spring of 2008. Since then, it seems like I've run into him everywhere... Iowa Code Camp,…

This week, I'm chatting with Rachel Reese, ASP Insider. We've never actually met in person, but it seems like we know all the same people. Funny how that…

We're shaking things up a bit over here at NINEQuestions.net. My 32nd cousin (she was born a Williams) and temporary co-host Rachel Appel is turning…

If you weren't at Codestock this weekend, you totally missed out. A few hundred developers from all over the country (Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, North…

I was hoping to get this out earlier in the week, but real life, work and that annoying sleep habit I can't seem to kick all got in the way. Randy is a…

If you're a 3D kinda guy, which I'm not (well, I'm getting there, but it's a slow journey) then you might be interested in this. Apparently, Caligari is…

I first met Rachel at TechEd 2008 and have been following her Twitter feed ever since. She's a newly awarded ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider, Microsoft Certified…

What tech books are you currently reading? The rules: 1) Don't count books you're being compensated to read. (paid reviews) 2) Don't count books that…

OMG D'Arcy... Meatloaf's your dad? That's awesome! How's that Go-Phone working out for you?

A few months ago, I was invited to apply to something called the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils. It appears to be some type of web based independent…

Wanna see something neat? Create an ASPX page in Visual Studio and add a GridView Control. Leave the name as GridView1.

I've suspected this for years, but the proof is starting to show up. If you look up the availablility of a domain name via the Network Solutions website,…

Sometimes people ask me what it takes to get a good user group going... so hopefully these tips help to minimize the pain a bit.

earlier today, someone I respect very highly asked the following question: "Is this a REAL problem… Do we really need to worry about being VB Developers…

Well... I'm betting some of you know some of them, but chances are none of you knew all of them until now. (I was tagged by Jason Olson, btw.)

If you're a modder, and maybe even if you aren't, you could be in danger of turning your 360 into a brick, courtesy of Microsoft's latest firmware update…

Now, I'm a geek at heart (obviously, since I'm here) and this is just cool... I was looking at BSG stuff HERE on SciFi.com and I saw a great ad for Visual…

Good for a laugh.

In this post, Scott Miller talks a bit about his internet footprint, and how some companies (MS in particular) might google you before actually talking to…

Can anyone tell me why a VB.net Boolean reserves 2 Bytes of memory, as opposed to 1 bit (0 or 1) or some other amount (smaller than 2 Bytes)? Thanks!

Found this in Paul Vicks blog... I know it's a couple weeks old, but it's quite funny... because it's true.

The wikipedia defines refactoring as: part of code maintenance which doesn't fix bugs or add new functionality. Rather it is designed to improve the…

Well the buzz from Atlanta Code Camp is starting to wear off a bit and let me just say I had a great time. My presentation (GDI+) went very well, with…

Last night's meeting of the Greater Charleston .NET User Group marked some high (and low) points for our young (< 1 year old) group.

Recently I found myself working on some player messages (for HA!) and was less than thrilled with how words were getting chopped in half on the linebreak.…