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On Sunday, as part of what has become a weekly ritual, Euan and I finished the co-op campaign of Gears of War on Hardcore difficulty. Gears is set up in such a way that playing co-op is identical to playing single-player, and yet it's a whole new game when you've got a mate helping you out instead...
For those who subscribe to this blog but not the AWDNUG Announcements blog, this is a reminder that our monthly meeting of the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group is this Wednesday. This month's meeting is a special one, because we have Ron Dunn from Microsoft coming up to give us a presentation on custom...
A few days ago, Brad Abrams posted this awesome "map" of the Microsoft Silverlight development platform . Silverlight , for those who have been hiding under a rock these last few weeks, is Microsoft's new product for publishing rich content on web sites. Their answer to Adobe's Flash...
I've been reading about how to write data to disk using the System.IO.Packaging namespace in .NET 3.0. This lets you create "packages" which are essentially zip files. You can store whatever you like in 'em, and it all gets neatly wrapped up into a single file. Comicster right now simply saves...
I read on Newsarama's forums the other day that ComicBase have released a "free" version called, presumably unironically, ComicBase FREE . This is essentially a gateway drug into the commercial world of ComicBase's software, which connects you to a large database of comics from which you can...
I was inthe kitchen this afternoon when one of my co-workers asked me if I knew anything about putting music to a PowerPoint slideshow. I had to admit that I didn't, and remarked that she'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who did since it's not something many people need to do. "Ah," she said, "That's...
After my first two weeks of playing with Windows Presentation Foundation, here are a few random thoughts: If you want to test something for a null value in XAML, the syntax is "x:Null". That one totally eluded me until someone pointed it out on the forum. Speaking of the forum , that place...
So here's a preview of my little test application that may one day become "Comicster 2.0". What I'm doing is recreating Comicster using Windows Presentation Foundation, but truly from the ground up. Comicster, as you know, was original a way for me to learn .NET 2.0 while at the same time producing something...
Sal and I saw 300 last night, and let me say it lived up to the hype. That was one intense movie. Sal also loved it, which was unexpected since it's such a hardcore "battle" movie. During the movie a phone started ringing in the row in front of us, about two seats left of me. That's annoying enough,...
After Joesph Cooney 's amazing WPF presentation at Code Camp Oz, I was inspired. I've been keeping track of WPF for years, but never quite had the gumption to try it myself until this week. I've started small - a simple window with a ListBox showing all the issues in my Comicster collection. I was experimenting...