Microsoft Virtual Tech Day 2009

This is well worth a visit today. This is a one day event across the world - 24 hours of live presentations on various different subjects from Silverlight, WCF, WPF, exception handling and clustering web servers.

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Robozzle - Great and very addictive Silverlight puzzle

Stumbled across this very addictive Silverlight puzzle today called Robozzle. Well worth a play, but remember to reserve some time before you start.





Link : http://robozzle.com/





This game reminds me of a 80's retro toy called Big Trak.



Big Trak was a six-wheeler toy tank that could be programmed to drive forward, backward, turn and fire a 'photon canon' in the sequence you entered.

To program the tank you needed to type the commands into the brightly coloured keyboard at the top of the vehicle. Big Trak could remember up to sixteen commands at any one time, but you needed to program in the movements in sequence.

Big Trak was quite advanced for its time being one of the first programmable robotic toys and it became extremely popular among children and adults alike.

It served no real purpose other than novelty but many people became addicted to improving their Big Trak programming to the point where they could get Big Trak to circumnavigate their homes.