I’ve just finished adding the first round of features to Xbox Friends Thing that will bring in some features of Windows / MSN Messenger directly into the user interface. New sets of icons to reflec...

I’ve been playing this game for several days now and have a few comments. I agree that the game deserves a 9.0 rating that The Official Xbox Magazine gave it… well… sort of. Yes, the game is visua...

Xbox Friends Thing v1.0.6.0 has been running reliably on everyones machine that have been beta testing; so it’s time to release it upon the masses. After marking it as a live version, 10 people dow...

Mike Schinkel of Xtras.Net decided “what the heck” and is giving away free memberships to Xtra.Net Developer Network (XDN) Professional ($99 value) during the month of May. The only catch is I have...

<>I’ve got the next release of Xbox Friends Thing just about ready to be released to the general public. Now that there are over 2300 people using it, I’ve got to be a bit more careful about ...

After making the changes to the web service calls in my application so that HTTP Keep-Alive was disabled, I had one instance (10 hours later) where it crashed. At that particular moment, I didn’t h...

I just went live the BannerGen… had someone contact me from who resides in Australia via IM about the images not being able to be saved in .gif or .jpg respectively. Had yet another person take a l...

I’ve just completed the first pass at a small web-based application that will allow you to select a banner style and enter in either your gamer tag or instant messenger email address and have a gen...

I’m experimenting with a handful of ways of displaying the statistics that are being captured via Xbox Friends Thing as it sees your friends online and playing each game. I’m limiting it to the las...

Well, my application ran up until noon today (stopped by the house during lunch to pick something up so I looked in on it). It ran for approximately 10 hours before croaking. Didn’t have time to ...