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Recent Blog Entries
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I was thinking of that interesting little pocket game, 20Q, where the game knows so many words and is able to figure out what word you're thinking of in 20 questions. For the most part, it's not too bad. It must really be pretty complex...
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This is one of those deep nerdy windows internals posts that will interest some and make other say "wow, Tom needs to spend more time away from his computer". There is actually a good reason why I've dug into this topic and it stems from...
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There are two reasons why I went ahead and deleted my other blogs today. The first is that I finally came to grips with the reality that managing three blogs is not very realistic. That was probably evident by the fact that each of those blogs had about...
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Before I forget to do this I wanted to post about this issue because it cost me a 1/2 day of debugging and I hope to save you this agony. It actually turns out there's a nasty little issue when you use Virtual Server 2005 differencing disks to quickly...
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Lately I have been working in Erlang (forgive me, Tom), and in particular on a distributed web-based system that exposes much of its functionality over a RESTful interface. The web server has been Yaws and the database Mnesia, both of which are also implemented...
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Ok, I've been working in Premier support for exactly 5 months now (to the day). I must have learned something interesting I can share with everyone. I mean it looks like the only blogger left alive on SOAPitStop is Anachostic (good stuff by the way...
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I am sure this is covered somewhere on the great big Internet, but it's new to me. And it sucked until I discovered what the problem was. Basically, I had random values being generated that were anything but random. "Oh, you...
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This is a quick little bit of code that I made up after unsuccessfully finding anyone else that had done it. What I wanted to do is take an original image, and skew it so it looked like it was going off into the distance. That gives it perspective...
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I've been spending a lot of time working on the game-play for the dungeon-type game for the Zune. Along the way, I've learned a lot about XNA. It's not as bad as I thought. It's just a bunch of new classes to understand. The programming...
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A few very productive days with lots of progress... lots of momentum. That's always trouble when you come up to "the wall." The momentum you have gained certainly works against you. So in the few days, I created a usable map...
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As most everyone should know, the Zune is doing games now. XNA games, that is. Well, I'm no XNA person, but I suspect I should be able to write a DLL in .NET for someone who does write XNA to implement. So I kicked around that idea for...
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This is going to be a test of how Windows Live Writer works with my blog on SOAPitStop. So far, most of seems pretty good. The web layout function doesn't really honor line wrapping, so I'll just compose in normal view. I also downloaded...
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A really great book with some timeless information is Developing User Interfaces for Microsoft Windows. One of the things that I got out of it, implicitly or explicitly, is the need for user feedback. And I started making it a higher priority in my applications...
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Garbage Collection in .NET helps deallocate memory in object heap, and in managed code, we do not get pointers or explicit memory allocation. So is it even possible to leak memory in .NET in literal sense, that is allocate memory to a pointer and lose...
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I guess this might be kind of a belated rant... some will know what i'm talking about. At a previous job, we had a need to log stuff: errors, debug info, etc. We were given an API by the upper programmers and it was, shall we say, less than excellent...
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