Programming

Typemock, my new best friend!

In particular, Typemock Isolator.   DISCLAIMER: I am in no way affiliated or receiving any compensation from the makers of Typemock. Simply a developer in the trenches loving this tool in his tool box. From thier website: http://www.typemock.com/index.php   “Isolate any .NET dependencies to make unit testing easy” What does Isolator do?Typemock Isolator gives .NET […]

Gaming

Team Fortress 2 Achievements

While I'm at it, I've heard of a convenient way to help grind these things out. I don't know if it's ethical or not but, I'll leave that decision to you. 1.) Start a server 2.) from console: mp_teams_unbalance_limit 0 2.) from console: sv_cheats 1 3.) from console (as many as you want): bot -team […]

Gaming

Game: Dead Space first thoughts

“Only the Dead Survive. A massive deep-space mining ship goes dark after unearthing a strange artifact on a distant planet. Engineer Isaac Clarke embarks on the repair mission, only to uncover a nightmarish blood bath — the ship's crew horribly slaughtered and infected by alien scourge. Now Isaac is cut off, trapped, and engaged in […]

Programming

A foray into Flash

I recently had the opportunity to do a small enhancement to a web site. In particular a simple file upload “page” so that their logged in users can upload a pdf file to them. The site is a asp.net based site, so we could have used the asp file upload component, but it has no […]

Gaming

A thought or two on Left 4 Dead

Right off the bat, let me say, this is a great game! Fun, suspenseful, and Co-Op! If you enjoy shooting zombies, You just can't go wrong here. Hats off to Valve. Single player and Co-Op (THANK YOU VALVE for bringing it back!!) are great. Versus… Well, I just don't like it much… Random team, random […]

Programming

Whoa! Here’s some bad code

This post has no basis in advice or analysis, I just was documenting an existing SharePoint site I sadly must maintain at work. If you've read my posts in the past, you'll remember that I am not a big SharePoint fan. Well, this isn't really SharePoint related (I just wanted to kick an app while […]