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The Week in Code (III)

Rename to The Week in XNA FX Land pending

• Cross-Platform XNA Menu System  Matt Pettineo released a new version of his menu system and companion editor
• Top Sources of Heap Garbage Renaud Bédard lists a few (seven, to be specific) ways to generate performance affecting garbage on the 360 and how to prevent it
• Not code at all but targeted at developers: In GUIDE: I want to write original music for my game, but I don't know anything about music!!! Dave1005 outlines how to compose your own music for your game. I am not sure if this will transform you into the next James Silva within a days length – or, given the reputation of developer art, will enable you to create useable music at all – but it is still a nice read.

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The Week in Code (II)

• A Shared Content Manager for XNA The idea is interesting, the shared implementation seems too static happy for my likings - but then again I am a follower of Over Engineering…
• In Free Microsoft eBook on - Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability a nice fellow named Deez shares a link to an interesting and free eBook. I am sure that I have seen it before, but have forgotten its existence since then.
• Not code but related is SourceGear DiffMerge: the best free diff tool out there.

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The Week in Code

Notable and interesting source code discovered in XNA Land during the past week (in no particular order):

• Changing constants at runtime Interesting way to get MotoGP: tweakables into your XNA FX based game
• TweakConsole another take on the tweakables mentioned above, this time by Louis Ingenthron
• Borrowing From The iPhone SDK Mr. Nick Gravelyn himself brings us an implementation of the NSTimer functionality

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