Acemuzzy’s Positronic Blog

Just to document my main upcoming aims for the project, in vague order

textures 
models
basic storyline (for a demo) & improve scripting
sound fx & music

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Not much
Tidying up my code using FxCop
Playing New Super Mario Brothers on my new DS
Getting my brain age down to 23
Deciding whether to write a platformer for a bit, not my adventure game
Meeting old friends [photo to follow]?
Realising I need to print my photos, integrate them into my blog, and sort out my app to cope [...]

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Right, well my photo program is pretty much finished now!  I’m not going to upload it quite yet, but I thought I’d at least point you at the photos which are now up.
So, HERE’S MY PHOTO ALBUM!
In terms of my wish list, it provides a slideshow & album view, as selected from a database, but [...]

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OK, in this post I challenged myself to write an album-producing GUI in C#.  This blog attempts to document my attempts to do so!
What I did!
C# stuff

Cranked up Visual Studio C# 2008, and sketch out some UI.
Discovered some (for me) new controls (including tabs, progress bars etc., and browsing to the desired directory.
Got it to [...]

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I’ve finally bought VS PHP.  I like it!  Great UI for writing PHP code.

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Right, well I’m back home.  Flight uneventful, though the general low quality of service won’t be encouraging me back onto Iberian Airlines any time soon.
So, what have I been up to since I got back?

Fundamentally, not much
Have got all my photos onto my laptop, so time for my challenge
Logged onto my PS3 and discovered a Trophy [...]

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I’ve set myself two photo-related challenges for when I get back home

use iPhoto or some such to produce a hard-bound photo album of the trip (with the travel blog as text) and
write a Windows program (in Csharp I expect) to

produce thumbnails of the images
produce sql for databases to hold the image names & descriptions
produce sql [...]

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In C#, according to MSDN, there are 77 C# keywords.  A keyword, it defines, is a predefined, reserved identifiers that have special meanings to the compiler.  Some you’ll be definitely familiar with, others possibly less so.  It’s these less common ones I’d like to introduce here - as I’ve found some new ones I’ve learnt [...]

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OK, I’m now “26% genius”!
But I think that will drop as they introduce more questions & I vacate the continent (and my PC) for four weeks…
I spent a while last night looking at Problem 199 to do with circle packing.  Haven’t got it figured yet.  I think I can either use Descarte’s Theorem, or it may [...]

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Right, I definitely prefer developing in Silverlight than Flash.  The IDE is much clearner, but the real winner is the productivity of C#, and libraries that I understand, vs. whatever Adobe decides to devise.  Some might view that as me being an MS-phile; even if that is the case (I don’t think I am!), that [...]

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