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Damir Slogar, Chief Executive at Big Blue Bubble talks to David Smith of Interactive Selection and Game Careers in Lyon. His advice on working for Big Blue Bubble:

“Try to do something extraordinary: if you are an artist make sure your portfolio shows your very best work. You don’t have to send much but send your best work. Don’t apply without sending your portfolio linked to it. If you are a programmer your experience and both your education are of equal value when our company is selecting candidates. If you don’t have much experience in the industry we are really appreciative of everything you do on your own, your own games that you did at home, small games – it will really help you get a job.”

See the full interview in the clip below:

Game Careers .BIZ – Video Games School, Jobs in Gaming.

For those who haven’t seen it yet, Charles Torre interviewed again Mohsen Agsen, Microsoft Technical Fellow who runs the Visual C++ engineering team.

Back in February Mohsen and Charles had had a first conversation, when they put forward the notion of a renaissance taking place in the native world. The reception to C++ Renaissance message has been great (and, in some sense, unexpected). Now that some time has passed, Charles visited Mohsen to continue their conversation.

[Watch the full interview in Channel 9]

Visual C++ Team Blog

Herb’s last appearance on C9 was a relatively short chat about C++0x. You wanted more questions so Herb decided that the best way to get the questions you want asked is, well, to have you ask them. Most of the highest user-rated questions were asked and Herb answers with his usual precision. So, without further ado, it’s C++ question and answer time with the great Herb Sutter, powered by you.

[Watch the entire interview in Channel 9]

Visual C++ Team Blog

Today, Microsoft announced the Kinect SDK for PC

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/download.aspx

VB Samples are there at launch and available for downloading

http://files.ch9.ms/coding4fun/KinectSDKSamplesVB.zip

The Visual Basic Team

iCodeblog is a good resource for programming tutorials on iPhone platform. Like us, this blog is new and there are only few tutorials but looks like so far so good.

[source iCodeblog]

iPhoneDevelopmentBits

TMobile reports that there are over 1 million iPhones active on their network.

Apple is interested in implementing auto tilt correction for the iPhone’s camera.

Verizon is putting an end to the unlimited data plan, here are the details on the data packages they will offer.

40% of European smartphone buyers will purchas an iPhone next, 19% will buy Android.

Apple may not get the ‘App Store’ trademark but continues to send out cease and decease letters.

Mobile Orchard

The best design­ers know that 95% of good design — web or print — comes down to the typog­ra­phy. There’s a plethora of lit­er­a­ture and years of train­ing involved in mas­ter­ing type, but there are also a bunch of tweaks you can make today to improve your web type. Let’s find out what they are.

Complete Article here

Filed under: HTML Tagged: css, graphics, html5, web, webdesign
Web 2.0 Programming Tips

iDevGames has opened a message board for  iPhone / iPod game development. 

[source iDevGames]

iPhoneDevelopmentBits

Late Night Code has posted a nice article on the fonts available on iPhone that developers can make use of in their apps and the article also explains the subtle differences in the fonts available on Mac platform as compared to iPhone. Good read.

[source Late Night Code]

iPhoneDevelopmentBits

BoostCon’11, held in Aspen, Colorado, was a fantastic conference this year. Not only because I got a chance to present my work on LEESA but also because of the breadth and depth of the topics covered.

LEESA, as you may recall, is an embedded language in C++ to simplify XML programming. LEESA’s programming model sits on top of the APIs generated by modern XML data binding tools. LEESA gives you XPath-like syntax (wildcards, child-axis, descendant-axis, tuples) to simplify data extraction from an XML object model.

I had a privilege to talk at length about LEESA in BoostCon’11. In the 1hr 41 minutes long video, I’m talking everything from why you need LEESA, how its implemented using cool C++ techniques, such as templates, meta-programming, compile-time and run-time performance, and what direction it may take in future. Here are the slides of the presentation.

C++ Truths