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Making a Video game? GameFest 2008 presentations!Sep 11, 2008 at 9:09 AM| 22 views
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The talks from GameFest 2008 are up on MSDN. From Shawn Hargreaves: Among this veritable cornucopia of goodies, you will find two talks from yours truly, Networking, Traffic Jams, and Schrödinger's Cat and Building Worlds with the Content Pipeline. Eli spoke about Real World Content… -
Your fly down? Zip it up natively.Aug 11, 2008 at 8:45 PM| 22 views 4
Jaime Olivares got sick and tired of having to use the java.util.zip namespace or invoking shell API's to produce a Zip file. Jaime decided to create a pure .Net 3.0 / 3.5 class that can create / append to zip file. Here is a quick example on how he zips a file. ZipStorer zip; if… -
Making Gravity do your biddingAug 07, 2008 at 3:02 PM| 22 views 0
The nice fellows at BoneSoft have created a neat little program at CodeProject that shows off how to do some pretty physics simulations in c#. They talk about how they did the calculations. Here is how he does a full calculation loop: foreach (Particle p in particles) { ... if… -
Can you hear me? Because my computer can!Dec 08, 2006 at 7:33 AM| 21 views 2
Meng Wang shows how to have your computer make calls with your GSM cell phone in VB.Net. If you're interested in how this works, he has 3 articles on Code Project. Part I - Retrieve Phone Settings Part II - Send SMS (link dead 7/8/2008) Part III - Dial, Answer, Reject (link dead…
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Death by ten thousand paper cuts.Jan 05, 2007 at 1:37 PM| 21 views 0
So your website is becoming popular. That is really great but have you checked your utilization logs lately? Scott Hanselman noticed that his favicon.ico was taking up a 27 Gigs of bandwidth a month! That was about 11% of his total bandwidth usage. What is the FavIcon? It… -
undo, wait, nah, I liked it better before, redo itOct 22, 2008 at 8:25 PM| 21 views 0
If you're like me, you're constantly running into walls and doing things you shouldn't be. Due to this, I need the undo command on almost everything I do. Marc Clifton has a nice, basic undo /redo framework on implementing this functionality which pretty much requires only three…
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LEGO, they do actually have real world applicationsApr 23, 2007 at 5:42 PM| 20 views 0
Matthias Wandel, an engineer over at Research in Motion, came up with a clever way to test Blackberries under multiple angles and orientations by using LEGO. The device will rotate on an axis by the battery in a circle along with rotate the pager. Is there a single thing LEGO can't… -
A car with a driver's license?Jun 15, 2007 at 6:35 AM| 20 views 0
Finally a car that can drive better than my brother! The DARPA driving challenge is now gearing up for urban driving. The Stanford University car, Junior, just got it's learning permit for basic driving. What does "basic driving" entail? Navigating a 4 way… -
Rapid Application XNA: now with more orange flavor.Jul 09, 2007 at 1:08 PM| 19 views 0
If you're a premium member of the XNA's Creator's Club, you now have access to Garage Game's Torque X and Torque X Builder for free! Previously, this cost $100! What is Torque X? It is c# based game engine that allows 2D drag and drop game creation! It allows you to make use… -
Chit-chatting with AJAXMar 04, 2007 at 5:45 AM| 19 views 0
Tyler Schlegel has created a basic browser-based chat application using ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX. For those who don't know what ASP.NET AJAX is, it was formally known as Atlas and is Microsoft's framework to provide Ajax calls. It works on other frameworks such as PHP and ColdFusion.…
