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Friday, June 19, 2009 8:42 AM

XNA: Using Fonts in XNA 3.1

XNA 3.1 No difference in how to use Fonts in XNA 3.1 over XNA 2.0.  If you already know how to use text in your project, this won’t be a big help to you.  This article was written to try to look a little smarter than my previous blog may have
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:19 PM

Back to building DLLs: Determining if a class is abstract or public

  In the world of VS 2008 and VS 2010, as well as all of the older development tools from Microsoft, the creation of DLLs is fully supported .  But just how do we utilize the DLLs?  First for the concept of DLLs to make sense, we need to
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:48 AM

Halo 3 blamed for killing of parents in 2007

Agenda: Ranting Research Articles Conclusion Ranting The defense attorneys and the prosecutors both made a statement that Halo 3 addiction was the basis for the murder, the problem is that Halo 3 was released in May 15, 2007, the murder occurred in Oct.,
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:09 PM

Links for Game Dev, VS 2010, Win7 Dev & Win7 Administration, with a touch of Workflow

Here are some helpful links for your development as a developer and software architect A good blog that is written for educational purposes, but is a good example of a blog that a lot more technologists should emulate is Tamer Maher, a hard working Egyptian
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Friday, June 12, 2009 10:04 AM

DLL: Creating Objects or Concrete Classes

First off tip of the hat to Tamer Maher: Tamer Maher in Egypt suggested that I include links to the many game programming sites that I like, these will be included in the next posting of this blog. Thank you Tamer for your input! See his blog at http://TamerMaher.spaces.live.com
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:02 PM

DLLs: Create an Abstract Class the Derive a Class

We aren’t quite at the point where we can use DLLs, but we need to take a look at the concept of the abstract class and how to derive or construct the abstract class, you can derive or construct a “concrete” class as well, but that is usually well defined. 
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Monday, June 08, 2009 8:46 AM

DLLs: Important stuff, and questions about Angelina Jolie’s use of DLLs

Original title for this blog:   OMG: I appeared to have made a commitment to show how to build a dll in a previous blog and Angelina Jolie tells her story about DLLs I am sorry, I made the statement: “In this blog, we will create a simple DLL that
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Friday, June 05, 2009 5:02 PM

Need help understanding C#, admit it, this isn’t easy

I have been working with software forever, ok, since I was 16, and I am 55 now.  So why ain’t I rich?  It’s a long and boring story, so stay focused…Oh wait a minute, I am pretty well off.  Software is the way to make money.  But you
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:44 PM

Building Mobile Games: Building a garage (DLL) for your stuff (classes)

Now that is a great title: Some more stuff.  Well that is what the blog is about: Stuff.  Game stuff, to build a game, it is a good idea to understand the concept of DLL and classes.  DLL stands for Dynamic Linking Libraries, which is a
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