The Mailowl Scrolls

Seems I messed up a bit and the download link for Medieval RTS didn’t work.  I’ve got it working now and I would dearly love to hear your comments on this work in progress.
To get the unit selection and menus working properly I’m going to re-write the whole mouse thing.  For starts I’m not going [...]

I quickly want to tell you about a cool little plug-in to Visual Studio 2005 that I’ve been using to copy code to html and to keep the style from my editor.

It’s called CopySourceAsHtml, and while the website isn’t much to look at, and might not inspire confidence in the tool, I can assure you [...]

I don’t profess to be much of a game developer, but I’m passionate about the subject and I do dabble as I can. I believe game development to be a lot harder than most business applications as games are required to give constant feedback to the player and immediately respond to input. Players [...]

My love for Python grows every day while I’m at work where I’m learning the integration possibilities between Python and .NET using IronPython. It’s particularly amazing how, from within a Python script, you can instantiate .NET objects; make calls to them, manipulate the data brought back and fire it off again.
One of the possibilities [...]

Continuing from my post yesterday I want to invite you to the talk I’m giving for SA Developer .NET titled “Implementing CardSpace in your website” where I’ll be going over the Laws of Identity, the architecture and implementation of CardSpace to authenticate users on an ASP.NET and I’ll touch on OpenID as well, and compare [...]

Social Networking seems to be at the opposite end of what the security and privacy advocates are fighting for. Site like LinkedIn, FaceBook and Tribes want you to give as much information about yourself as possible, including who your friends and contacts are, and to share that information on the site. Yes, “strangers” [...]

If ever you want to get an impression of the state of blogging in South Africa, head off to the 27Dinner events. I attended the last dinner on the 27th March 2007 (they’re always on the 27th, hence the name) and I was blown away by the sheer number of people there and in particular [...]

Craig Nicholson was kind enough to find an answer to my question, why does Visual Studio use a general Exception with the message “The method or operation is not implemented.” instead of the NotImplementedException when generating your implemented methods of an interface or base class.
You can read Craig’s post here, but the short answer is [...]

Over a week since I last blogged and boy do I have a lot to talk about!
First Craig Nicholson helped me out with an explanation as to why generated code in Visual Studio 2005 throws a general exception as supposed to the specific NotImplementedException when implementing interfaces. Then I went to 27Dinner and met [...]