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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:59 AM

Cuil – It’s Not Me Either

After seeing the slightly incorrect representation of Angus on the Cuil search engine , I thought I’d give it a go myself. Nope, these aren’t me either.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:52 PM

Interesting stuff from the past few days

These days, it’s not so much email as RSS that causes the delays when I get back from leave. Here’s a round-up of some interesting stuff from the past few days: Scorbs points out DevDave’s Animated Wrap Panel for Silverlight Chris mentions BBC Sport’s
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:13 AM

MicroQuest – Making The Unit Move

In this exciting instalment of MicroQuest activity, we're finally going to do something useful and make the Unit move around on the map, using the pathfinding code from a while ago. We need to get our coding fingers on a little this time. The interaction
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:34 PM

Which is why you need Software + Services

Adam points out a useful example of why the cloud alone is not enough . Ultimately there are a lot of potential points of failure between your computer and any cloud service: anything from ISP to line damage to the service itself being out. I keep a stash
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 1:48 PM

Signal to Noise Ratio

Hmm…
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:59 PM

Aggregation Aggravation

As I was upgrading my blog I was looking at the release notes around support for APML ( you can see my APML here ). I feel the need to subscribe to many blogs to keep myself abreast of developments across the varying industries and technologies I look
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:03 AM

MicroQuest – Adding the Unit

Now that the map is displaying in the way we want, the next step is to add some kind of representation of the player or unit. This is going to require a little bit more plumbing, as we haven't actually created a Unit object yet. And it's probably about
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:10 AM

MicroQuest - A WPF GameWorld

In the last post, I cobbled together something that was serviceable as a pathfinding routine, and was left with the beginnings of some structures - such as Location and Unit - that would be needed in MicroQuest. In this post, we'll look at building the
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:47 AM

Linerider in Silverlight

Linerider has been moved to Silverlight . Very cool, and a nice integration with Messenger and the Contacts API. It’s a winner, casual gaming fans!
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:12 AM

It’s what your DeepZoom was made for…

Great DeepZoom example – a Barack Obama collage made from 12,000 thumbnails from his supporters . I wonder if they could rustle up enough photos to do one of Gordon Brown? (Note: cheap jibe, rather than some description of my political bias.)
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