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50 useful tools and resources for web designers
some games on the android platform:
links to android game dev info:
after microsoft decided to close down the popfly game site, they also open sourced the code to the engine.
the source code is a good read if you are working on a silverlight application, in particular games -- but should be enlightening if you are working on other silverlight applications as well.
it is an insight on how silverlight code is written by those that have a direct line to the silverlight team.
popfly game engine @ codeplex
so, the rumor on the street is that microsoft will be releasing a version of office that is web-based.
the speculation also states that office.com will be available in browsers other than internet explorer.
which, of course, can only mean one thing -- and that is the web version of office will be a silverlight application.
or, i could be wrong -- but i seriously doubt it. microsoft office on windows, mac, and linux could be a powerful force to contend with.
jason dolinger's "model view view-model" screencast -> video link
mark heath's example -> link
i've updated my silverlight experiment, marblefall, to the final release of silverlight 2.
thankfully, the performance of the final release is much better than the beta versions.
check out marblefall!
georgia institute of technology has posted lecture videos from their game development course using c# and xna.
link
amazon has just announced that they will be supporting windows server on amazon ec2.
amazon s3 (simple storage service) has been an extremely useful service for me so i am very excited about this announcement.
i tried mosso cloud hosting for about a month and liked it overall but needed more control such as the ability to use remote desktop to administer the machine.
the amazon ec2 windows instances will support remote desktop.
i'm eagerly awaiting further details.
read the announcement on the amazon web service blog
i debated internally about adding comments to anatone.net for a long time.
finally, i decided that it would be interesting to write the code to enable comments.
we'll see if this is useful or annoying. i think the split on websites i visit is about 50/50.
amazon reviews are good for help with deciding whether or not to order a product.
comments on scott hanselman's site are good for learning about programming on the windows platform.
youtube comments are the epitome of annoying.
we'll see what comments on anatone.net become...
check out my first foray into silverlight development. it uses the inkpresenter object and the farseer physics library.
it is a marble machine of sorts, not a game per se -- more of a toy.
you can draw objects on the screen and the marbles will bounce off of them.
play with marblefall!
thanks go to jeff weber of farseer games and andy beaulieu.
the horrors of going offline?
an offline packager for msdn help comes to the rescue?
a neat idea, although personally i don't find the "dictionary" approach to documentation to be that helpful, still, it's worth knowing that this exists if you need it sometime...
package this
well, that's cute.
the latest round of windows xp updates resets your default browser to internet explorer.
microsoft, one of your first priorities should be to not annoy your customers.
was there a fundamental reason for doing this? in other words, did patching a security hole in internet explorer unavoidably reset the browser to the default or was it an arbitrary choice of someone there at microsoft?
either way, it's lame.
here is a good description of bayesian reasoning
a list of css techniques.
tips and tricks for asp.net 2.0 from scott guthrie at microsoft.