What the best XNA blog? [closed] - xna

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I know good general programming blogs (like coding horror ;) ).
But I want very good specific XNA blog.
Suggestions?

Shawn Hargreaves and Nick Gravelyn are two names that I run across a lot when looking for information on XNA.
It's not as much of a blog, but Ziggyware also has a lot of great information.
And you can also find helpful information right on the XNA forums and GameDev.net forums.
Oh, also, I like to read Gamasutra, which has articles from people developing on XNA.

I really like Shawn Hargreaves blog. He has a lot of code examples and shows a lot of best practices and tricks to help development.

You can start from www.creatorsclubonline.com , they have a huge list of links to XNA specific blogs. (not sure if you are looking at beginner level or advanced level blogs)
Meanwhile here are some...
http://blogs.msdn.com/etayrien/
http://www.xnatutorial.com/
http://www.xnadevelopment.com/tutorials.shtml
http://www.xnatutorial.com/
http://www.phstudios.com/?q=node/16
best

It depends what it is you expect from a blog. If you're searching for knowledge and techniques, you'd be grazy not to spend some time at Riemer's tutorials as well!

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Closed 9 years ago.
I'm looking for a very concise guide to using rails. I've done lots of work with other similar frameworks like Django so I just need a very short tutorial. Does anything like that exist?
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Closed 10 years ago.
Hi although this is not technical question, it is important to know where can someone find best from the experts.I am new in JQuery, I am using http://jquery.com/ for learning purposes. But it would be appreciable if I could have some better reference learning site for JQuery where videos and demos are available
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After that, there are many, many good sites dedicated to jQuery.
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http://www.learningjquery.com/
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Closed 10 years ago.
I've been trying to find a good tutorial on how to program randomized tile generation (2D). However it seems that i cannot find any proper tutorials on that.
Is there any books and/or websites with proper tutorials on how to program it and the math behind it?
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More I'm going on with MongoID driver for MongoDB nosql models in my Rails apps, more I feel don't knowing so much about the full expressiveness, elasticity and powerness of its constructs.
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I'm looking for some blog that talks about ruby and rails.
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http://www.rubyinside.com/
http://www.railsinside.com/
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