Author Archives for Andre Odendaal

links for 2007-03-23


Boing Boing: Understanding Games: short interactive videos on game design
Understanding Games is a series of short animation/games that set out to explain how and why video games work
(tags: gamedev)

ASP.NET Web: The Official Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Site : Videos
Lots and lots of ASP.NET and AJAX videos
(tags: web2.0 development)

Expresso Regular Expression Development Tool
Tool for testing Regular Expressions
(tags: [...]

links for 2007-03-22


Pandora Internet Radio – Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio
US ONLY: Pandora allows you to create your own radio stations
(tags: music web2.0)

links for 2007-03-20


CardSpace Claim Types – Identity Schemas Wiki
CardSpace Claim Types for self-issued cards
(tags: development membership)

Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox for Windows Cardspace


This is so unfair! I’ve spent this last week figuring out how to build my own MembershipProvider so that I can use CardSpace on an ASP.NET website without resorting to card association and this morning I log onto my RSS aggregator and Kim Cameron is blogging about Christian Arnold who has built a Visual Studio [...]

links for 2007-03-18


MonoRail :: Castle Project
(tags: web development)

links for 2007-03-16


ConnectionStrings.com – Forgot that connection string? You will find it right here!
(tags: development)

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition User Instances
(tags: development sqlserver)

Identity: Secure Your ASP.NET Apps And WCF Services With Windows CardSpace — MSDN Magazine, April 2007
Associating Cards with an account in your ASP.NET website
(tags: development membership)

Writing A Custom Membership Provider for your ASP.NET 2.0 Web [...]

Business blogs to evangelise internal tools


Internal tools need evangelism too!
If we look at any Microsoft technology, there are always a couple of people out there blogging about their experiences with it and providing links to samples and references. If we want to learn Java, PHP or C++ there are a whole host of sites willing to take us from [...]

links for 2007-03-15


PopCap Developer Program
(tags: gamedev)

ScottGu’s Blog : New “Orcas” Language Feature: Extension Methods
(tags: development)

Bundy’s .NET and BizTalk Server Blog : Embedding IronPython to validate data using scripts
(tags: python)

Del.icio.us – Sharing my bookmarks with you


What’s this? My previous post was just a bunch of links? This doesn’t replace blogging; what the hell is going on?
It’s called Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is the marketing term and Web 2.0 buzzword for the idea of sharing bookmarks and links; and the service I’m using is del.icio.us.
“del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website — [...]

links for 2007-03-14


Value vs Reference at C# Online.NET (CSharp-Online.NET)
(tags: development)

Storm Telecom | Voice and Data Provider | VoIP
(tags: serviceprovider)

ZGameEditor : ZGameEditor
The tool for writing 64kb games
(tags: development)

PopCap Games – Peggle
(tags: games)

Federation Sample
(tags: identity)

Andre Odendaal

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