Mid-week update
Time for yet another mid-week update. Nothing much going on in the programming front, other than the ASP.Net project I’m working on is slowly coming along. I still have a few things to work out though,...
View ArticleA quick lesson in usability…
Want to make your .Net app that much usable? Don’t like a crowded UI? Consider adding a context menu. In Visual Studio, in the forms designer, add a ContextMenuStrip (click the ContextMenuStrip in the...
View ArticleQuick Update…
Figured I’d do a quick, almost-mid-week update. Nothing really new going on development wise. I’m still plugging away on that ASP.Net site that I’m supposed to be working on. I haven’t really done much...
View ArticleIt’s All About the Gravy: Making Good Things Better
Question: How can you take an ordinary dish, jazz it up a bit, and make it suitable to fit in a Thanksgiving feast? Answer: Add sauce. Even something like mashed potatoes can be made significantly more...
View ArticleSTL Loading in XNA
I’ve recently been doing some playing around with a Makerbot Replicator 2, which has been pretty nifty. Before I got my hands on the 3D printer, though, I wanted to learn more about the STL file format...
View ArticleWindows 8 Power Button App
I figured I’d better get with the times and actually try out Windows 8. Luckily, I’ve got a netbook that hasn’t been doing too much lately, so I threw in an Intel 60 GB SSD into it, and put Windows 8...
View ArticleCustom AuthorizeAttribute Not Working in ASP.Net MVC4?
As you may have guessed from my other recent blog posts and tweets, I’m working on a web based project. Actually, I’m working on an updated version of Pylons, in preparation for creating a mobile...
View ArticleHow to solve: Xde.exe has stopped responding…
I’m just staring to get into Windows Phone 8 development, and ran across the following issue: After installing Visual Studio 2012, the Windows Phone 8 SDK (and related updates), and enabling Hyper-V, I...
View ArticleUser ratings and community content
For some reason this morning I felt like doing a bit of writing. Little did I know, it would be in response to a rather scandalous sounding article over at Ars Technica. The discussion was partially...
View ArticleProgramming is like your own little universe
I think this is one of the things that got me into programming (in particular – game development): programming is essentially creating your own little universe. You define the rules, and how things...
View Article