Now Available for the Windows Phone Marketplace, SteamBirds: The turn-based aerial combat game that over twelve million people have played! “…Steambirds lies in wait to rob you of your Monday morning.” –Penny Arcade Use bombs, missiles and poison gas to defeat enemy planes in this unique turn-based game! This version features improved graphics, new music, [...]
Now available on the Windows Phone marketplace, Udder Chaos! “Protect your cows from Alien hordes as they try to abduct your precious livestock. Alien hordes too hard? Upgrade your weapons and gain smart bombs to blow them out of the sky. Includes global leaderboards, endless mode, easier kid-mode, and option to remove ads.” The trial [...]
What a whirlwind of a few weeks … first order of business, I can’t believe that I hadn’t even posted a link to this, but Udder Chaos was released on XBox Live Indie Games several weeks ago. It’s received favorable reviews (or mildly tepid at worst), and was even featured on Kotaku’s favorites list for [...]
Fresh on the Marketplace, Lemonade Stand for Windows Phone 7 now available for download! Please note: LMND.st is down until further notice, the app has been removed from the marketplace until that time. Welcome to Lemonade Stand, a new and easy way to buy and sell locally. Lemonade Stand is a neighborly commerce platform that [...]
I attended my first NYC Dot Net User Group last night. Nick Landry of Infusion development gave an intro talk on XNA with windows phone. It was quite amusing to listen to the organizers talk about attendee behavior because it reminded me very much of the experiences I had running the Orlando .NET user group. I [...]
There are a few references online about how to get the new ASP.NET Charting controls working with the MVC framework. However, some of them are outdated, and the corresponding information to make it work with MVC2 are spread out. So in an effort to organize the info all in one place, here’s a quick step [...]
Now that the .NET landscape has a new “screen” to design for in the form of Windows Phone 7 (WM6.x doesn’t count ), we need to start thinking about how to provide users with consistent metaphors and input mechanisms. Microsoft’s patterns and practices group wrote the book on web and desktop application architectures (literally). One [...]
I settled on the Acer T230H multitouch monitor So far, I’m happy enough with it. When I plugged it into the USB port on my computer, windows 7 already had drivers for it so it was kind of nice that I did not have to install any extra software; Though I haven’t installed the software [...]
Question: What’s the easiest way to let a custom application re-use accounts from a PHPBB installation? Answer: The first thing that occurred to me was that I’d have to look over the PHPBB user tables, connect to mysql, and read the user’s password (which I assume is hashed) to do the authentication. The second idea [...]
I love it when information travels at the speed of internet. I posted a little blurb yesterday about whether or not Steam would publish XNA games. It was based on an email that I sent them, and the response I got back. Very quickly, a few commenters mentioned that it would be trivial to write [...]