Hi Gamers, So partly based on feedback from an earlier post, I’ve formulated a sort of workaround for the simulation freeze/lockup issue in Madden NFL 2008. Basically, I’ve been able to *easily* reproduce this bug so accurately, it’s like clockwork (EA should be embarrassed). The Problem: In […]
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Okay, it’s time for……. Madden 2008 (XBOX 360) : The Good, The Bad and The UGLY Hi to all. I’ve been playing Madden NFL Football for over ten years on various consoles (PC/PlayStation/PS2/xbox/xbox360). Last year I made the switch from the xbox to the xbox 360 (to take advantage […]
Nick Randolph posted this to the aus-dotnet mailing list today: Anyone interested in doing any form of mobile or embedded development should head over to the OpenNETCF community site (http://community.opennetcf.com). This site has just been launched and they are currently working to migrate the existing OpenNETCF forums across. […]
From the good people at Ars Technica comes this weeks’ bogus US legal ruling, which originated from a court case pitting the Motion Picture (MPAA) against well known BitTorrent site, TorrentSpy.com which is based in Europe: "Judge Cooper took issue with TorrentSpy’s argument that data in RAM is not […]
Game Platform: Xbox 360 @ 1080p w/h surround sound Well, the movie was pretty good so I figured it was worth the risk to see if the game followed suit.Wrong. For a "top shelf" game, I can’t see it avoiding the bargain bin for long. Certainly after the movie […]
G’day. So yesterday I tore out some more hair trying to duel with Subversion (SVN). I’m not using the Ankh Visual Studio plugin (as yet). What ended up happening was that somehow SVN got the idea that I wanted to delete a Web.config file. Somehow it got committed, and […]
Hi All. Day three (or, the last day) of Tech Ed follows on from last night’s wrap party. Many folks are flying out tonight, thus the timing of the party which was held at MovieWorld. In a interesting move, the evening at Movieworld was SciFi themed, which does little to […]
Hiya.. Continuing the normal level of delicious indelicacy comes the ongoing post series, TechEd 2007, from yours truly. I’ll be continually updating this blog post throughout the day so check back. There has been one session already this morning, but in deference to providing a healthy start to […]
OK, so probably half the readership of this blog is already in the Gold Coast for the annual Microsoft TechEd. I’m writing this entry on the floor (not literally) of the Exhibition hall at Tech Ed. We arrived around midday and caught some of the afternoon sessions. It is […]
From the great Win32 API in the sky comes an introduction to Windows Event Hooks. One of my favourite debuggiong techniques (from the old, unmanaged code days) was subclassing other Windows’ windows. Now there are some obvious ways to protect your code from unwanted processing attention. This all […]
Calling out to all IT professionals who are going to TechEd this week! Is anyone up to drinks and dinner on Wednesday night in Surfer’s Paradise? This seems to be a good night since everyone’s in town, and there doesn’t appear to be much *officially* on that night. I’m […]
Who is going to Tech Ed 2007 in the Gold Coast? Next week (for me) starting on Wednesday, Tech Ed kicks off in style and I’ll be there with the usual suspects. Looking forward to Luke Drumm’s presentation on the XNA studio and Xbox game development. Rocky Heckman is delivering a […]
So we came across an old problem today which I couldn’t immediately remember the solution to. As a result, I figured I will blog about it. it’ll make it easier to come back across later when the same problem comes up again! The first time around, I managed to […]
Hi.. I pulled this quote out of a recent post to the ausdotnet mailing list from Rocky H. "You can not drop a file from a Medium Integrity process (Explorer) onto a High integrity process (elevated Notepad). This is actually the problem a lot of developers face with […]
At the recent architect forum in Sydney I was able to sit in on a round table discussion regarding rapid estimation exercises. I’m in no way new to the process of estimating implementation time or generating effort forecasts – I’ve done so professionally for the past eight or nine years, an […]