CodeCube Archive

Wow, the last few months have been busy as heck for me. A ton of people have been asking me about this, so I figure I'll post a small update. I am almost done with an upd...

Big congrats go out to Vic over at FlatRedBall.comhttp://flatredball.com. He's finally gotten the first build of the XNA port of his engine out. I'm proud to admit that I...

In response to a threadhttp://forums.xna.com/thread/8166.aspx on the XNA forums, JunkMailer aka Leaf put it far better than I had so far: Just because the content pipelin...

Mykre sayshttp://www.virtualrealm.com.au/blogs/mykre/archive/2007/05/10/autism-awareness-week.aspx: This is one of the things that are very close to my heart, as some of...

The XNA Game Studio 1.0 Refreshhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=12ADCD12-7A7B-4413-A0AF-FF87242A78DE&displaylang=en was released today. Of specifi...

So I've been using Scripthttp://projects.nikhilk.net/Projects/ScriptSharp.aspx for a project, and it's been going pretty well. There are a few gotchas here and there, but...

So I've managed to replace the rather dull player 2 character in spacewar with a rudimentary AI. Well, perhaps to call it AI is to give it too much credit. All it does is...

The first challenge of Dream.Build.Playhttp://dreambuildplay.com has been issued. Make a mod of the spacewar starter kit. I almost immediately got an idea to do something...

After reading this very useful post-mortemhttp://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1059623&SiteID=1 and working with XNA and XACT for a bit, I decided to do...

You're looking at the proud owner of an XNA Creator's Club subscription ... Grand Prizehttp://dreambuildplay.com, here I come!

The Dream.Build.Playhttp://www.dreambuildplay.com competition site is now up and accepting registrations. Contest and prize details will be available on February 5th. I s...

The project is coming along nicely ... I just finished a nice refactoring session which cleans up a lot of the code I had written. Mainly along the lines of the runtime c...

Interesting project here to read the Wii Remote's accelerometer values from C on windows. I can't wait to see if anyone writes any XNA games that use the wiimotes :-D htt...

Wow ... what can I say other than wow. I'm really looking forward to future episodes of this :-P

I've been taking a small bit of a break from XNA code to delve into some of the free content creation tools out there. so far, Wings3Dhttp://www.wings3d.com seems to stan...

I've finally decided to do it ... ever since I read about super-programmer Benjamin Nitschke's polyphasic sleep experimenthttp://exdream.no-ip.info/blog/PermaLink.aspx?gu...

Been pretty busy with work to even comment on the v1.0 release of XNA. Needless to say I'm pretty excited about it. Just got around to updating a few of the samples I've...

Updated for V1 Shawn Hargreaves wrote an excellent article, Taking out the Trashhttp://blogs.msdn.com/shawnhar/archive/2006/09/06/743437.aspx. Where he talks about the wa...

Updated for V1 I've been meaning on doing a bit of a writeup on this since I hadn't really found any tutorials on the web as of this writing, but my laptop is going to ma...

I've updated the XnaControlhttp://codecube.net/item.asp?ccItemID=338 a bit by cleaning up the code, putting the XnaControl in its own library, putting classes and enums i...

Updated for V1 Download the XNA Controlhttp://codecube.net/xna/CodeCube.Xna.zip - Implements IServiceProvider and IGraphicsDeviceService. - UpdateMode property which lets...

I'm almost done updating the XNA Controlhttp://codecube.net/item.asp?ccitemid=314&searchstring=xna%20control to beta 2. It mostly worked but had a few small changes based...

Well, I kept trying to finish up this little sample of an XNA control, but I need to get back to working on RocketBrawl, so I figure I'll just release the code as is. The...

Do you find XNAhttp://microsoft.com/xna or Managed Game Development in general an interesting proposition? If you live in the Orlando, FL area, shoot me an email at joelm...

David Weller posted links to all Gamefest 2006 Contenthttp://letskilldave.com/archive/2006/09/11/Gamefest-2006-Content-available2100.aspx on his blog. My brain has alread...

Just got back from a four day cruise aboard the Carnival Fantasyhttp://www.carnival.com/ShipDetail.aspx?shipCode=FA. I gotta say it was a pretty refreshing vacation. Whil...

haha, this is awesome ... as it turns out, my XBox 360 has Started a bloghttp://www.360voice.com/blog.asp?tag=CodeCube.

The song Re Your Brainshttp://www.jonathancoulton.com/lyrics/re-your-brains by Jonathan Coulton is awesome! I especially love the chorus: All we want to do is eat your br...

I'll have to check it outhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21e979e3-b8ae-4ea6-8e65-393ea7684d6c&displaylang=en tonight. Lets just hope that hurrica...

Wow, I have to say that I love XBox Live. This incarnation is much better than the first which, to be fair was the first of its kind for consoles. I bought a wireless ada...

Good to see that the XNA Framework Teamhttp://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2006/08/13/698300.aspx now has a blog. The announcementhttp://editorials.teamxbox.com/xbox/1688/X...

The XNA FAQhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/xna/faq/ has an interesting item ... Q: How exactly can I share my 360 game to other 360 users? Will my game only be availabl...

Just a bit of upcoming news. I'm working on a game who's working title is \"Rocket Brawl\". I hope to have some concept art to show off in the near future. There's work goi...

Whew, I almost left this little gem behind at my previous employer. It's a shortcut that you can place on your sharepoint server's desktop to bring up a sharepoint ready...

Tell me if thishttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconmappingnetdataproviderdatatypestonetframeworkdatatypes.asp makes any sen...

Good thread over at gamedevhttp://gamedev.net talking about game economies in MMOs. http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topicid=394622http://www.gamedev.net...

There's a cool post over at the FRBhttp://flatredball.com forums that shows how easy it is to include scripting in your FRB project: http://www.flatredball.com/forum/abou...

Rendermonkey http://www.ati.com/developer/rendermonkey/http://www.ati.com/developer/rendermonkey/ is pretty cool. I was able to take the pixel shader examples from the fa...

Pandora and Squeezebox Sweet! http://www.pandora.com/squeezenetwork.shtmlhttp://www.pandora.com/squeezenetwork.shtml

You know, tools like NDoc http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/ and Doxygen http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/http://www.stack.nl/%7Edimitri/doxygen...

Very interesting article by Marc Clifton over at CodeProject http://www.codeproject.com/gen/design/autp5.asphttp://www.codeproject.com/gen/design/autp5.asp I really like...

Orlando Codecamp 06 Rocked! <http://orlando.devcamps.comhttp://orlando.devcamps.com Codecamp was a blast. I took my laptop and mic and have about an hour's worth of Audio...

Don't know how I missed this before, but I started playing with CodeSmith Studiohttp://www.codesmithtools.com/ a few days ago. It's amazing! read on to see a small sample...

Not really, they're actually really great, especially in an organization that uses Active Directory as extensively as Tiburonhttp://www.tiburon.com. Unfortunately for us...

Jacksonville Code Camphttp://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032274287&Culture=en-US and Tampa Code Camphttp://www.floridadev.net/tampacodecamp are c...

Serializing & Deserializing XML with .NEThttp://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=DAF65 and Podcasting 101 - Part 1http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=A...

I was thinking the other day about the difference between values types and reference types, and how they can have a very profound impact on the performance and even stabi...

Many people have writtenhttp://software.ericsink.com/NoProgrammers.html on the topichttp://madgeek.com/Articles/Architect/EN/architect.htm of the definitionhttp://dotnetj...

I was browsing around and found this articlehttp://www.csharphelp.com/archives3/archive518.html on a cool use of streams. Within the sample code, there was this nifty lit...

I got myself a MobilePre USBhttp://www.m-audio.com/products/enus/MobilePreUSB-main-1.html by M-Audio. This thing is super sweet. It connects via USB and is thus powered t...

So I sat in on some c++ training classes they were holding at workhttp://www.tiburon.com and I've been thinking more and more about performance. Couple that with the occa...

Sheesh, I sure have been busy ... poor blog is getting neglected. Oh well, I figured the least I could do was post links to my latest articles on CMXhttp://www.communitym...

The ONETUG Meeting is tonight ... Jonathan Goodyearhttp://www.angrycoder.com and Eddy Reciohttp://aspsoft.blogs.com/eddy will be talking about the Provider Pattern. See y...

The Cat's out of the bag nowhttp://www.tiburon.com I've known this for a while, but since it hadn't been announced yet we weren't allowed to talk about it. Even now I'm s...

My latest articlehttp://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D1A34 is up on CommunityMXhttp://www.communitymx.com .

.NET Framework 1.1 required I wanted to recreate the same type of gameplay found in the old school classic, Asteroids. This was fun. For those of you who may have already...

Just got around to seeing one of Carl Franklin of .NET Rocks!http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks fame and his band's tunes called New London Blueshttp://weblogs.asp.net/...

Holy Crap!http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/12/13/news6114977.html ... EA signed an exclusive deal with the NFL and Players Inc. for exclusive rights to teams, players, a...

Most DirectX tutorials that even mention the zbuffer only mention setting the Device.RenderStates.ZBufferEnable property to true. Unfortunately, there's a few more things...

dude, that was messed up. I think I just had my first nightmare in years. The first big set of recurring nightmares I can remember having was when I was 8 or 9. For some...

Boy was thathttp://aspsoft.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/nerddinner.jpg fun. Several hours of talkin' code, games, and plenty of opportunities to embarrass yourselfhttp:...

For anyone getting into 3D programming, these two formulas will come in quite handy Radians = Degrees Math.PI / 180; Degrees = Radians 180 / Math.PI; See, lots of algorit...

Click This Link ... for Rory's sakehttp://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/10511.aspx. And if you've got a blog, post up a similar message

I wanted to play around with some OpenGL and C using NEHE's C basecodehttp://nehe.gamedev.net. Unlike Direct3D, OpenGL has no canned model loading code ... so if you want...

Wow, I think a wonderful opportunity has just opened itself to me. I got an email from a Ben Williams who got a hold of me through my country's website. Unfortunately, Mr...

Forgot to post this ... a few days ago I responded to a question on the .net newsgroups. The person was asking whether the DataTable class has a limit to how many columns...

He's making a list, and checking it twice ... it's not Santa, it's Chris Sellshttp://www.sellsbrothers.com! Thanks to Joe Fuentes of the Tallahassee .NET User Group for g...

If you're an ASP.NET developer, please add your vote to this feedbackhttp://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewFeedback.aspx?feedbackId=FDBK18095 to add one super...

Wow ... I just got dual lcd monitors at work. Although I had dual monitors before, it's so much easier now that both monitors are the same size. Before, they were sized d...

After reading a great articlehttp://www.ai-junkie.com/architecture/statedriven/tutstate1.html over at ai-junkiehttp://www.ai-junkie.com/. The article describes the tenets...

Wow ... it's amazing to see how EA's stock has basically been on a straight line since 1990. I'm only guessing, but it looks like Microsoft really took a hit when the .co...

Ever since they announced that C 2.0 was going to have generics, I have been struggling with trying to find a reason to actually use generics. I mean, I know that they're...

Which File Extension are You?http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/10/extensionquiz.php I wonder how long before their server dies from the strain of having to serve all those...

The Axiom engine is an open source 3D graphics/game engine written in C. It has bindings for rendering with OpenGL and Managed DirectX. This article takes you through the...

I forgot who I was talking to recently about the CMS running my site. For the uninitiated, here's a bit of background; I had been playing with the beta bits of the .NET f...

Eddyhttp://aspsoft.blogs.com/eddy pointed me to this articlehttp://www.devsource.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,1759,1642397,00.asp. It's an interesting read, the usual \"grow u...

You know, I never got around to mentioning this on the blog. We took a long weekend mini-vacation in June 04 and went to St. Augustine Florida. We couldn't have stayed at...

How's that for a mouthful? I had two databound controls on an asp.net page, each being loaded on the page load event. After the initial project review, the requirements w...

If I hear the word \"Hunker Down\" one more time I'm going to scream. After a bit of searching ... it seems that others have noticedhttp://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hun1...

The DNNhttp://www.dotnetnuke.com Bootcamp put on by myself, Tim Platthttp://www.developercoach.com, and Stan Schulteshttp://www.vbnetexpert.com went down with nary a hitc...

ONETUGhttp://www.onetug.org, along with Stan Schulteshttp://www.vbnetexpert.com, is hosting a DotNetNukehttp://www.dotnetnuke.com bootcamp on Saturday, 25th @ 9am at New...

This simple graph plotter/demos/dotnet/trigtest.zip is written in Whidbey ... not really because it uses any whidbey features, but because I wanted to play around with th...

Well, that was a whirlwind day. The first day of VSLive! was basically a big Microsoft commercial which isn't entirely horrible. There basically wasn't anything that hasn...

well ... that didn't work I'm using the DxMeshToXamlhttp://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2004/06/11/dxmesh2xaml command-line tool that's been making the rounds to conver...

Man, today seems to be Kill Microsoft day on Slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/24/2033217http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/24/2033217 Microsoft has...

I downloaded the latest xamlon betahttp://www.xamlon.com ... it Rocks! For one, they've got a really nifty little XAML editor called XamlPad. Simply author your Xaml in t...

video herehttp://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=18714 I remember going to the first ever TODCONhttp://www.todcon.org and attending his Javascript/DOM session. The...

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=18088 http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=18088 Sohttp://slate.msn.com/id/1002032/, after watching that video, it...

Being a creature of habit could kill ya ... I was being a good little boy and using the data application blockshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/...

I started playing around with gnupghttp://www.gnupg.org. I've posted my public keyhttp://www.codecube.net/joel/jmartinezpublic.txt for anyone who might be interested. I h...

Gamespy posted up a video of John Carmack's keynote. Interesting stuffhttp://pc.gamespy.com/pc/doom-3/539265p1.html You can tell just by listening to the guy that he has...

Old code is so hard to give up ... but I'm forcing myself to go through my archives and get rid of old code. Most of it is stuff that had potential, but I never got aroun...

Small things which I'm sure will be fixed in the future still need work. One such small thing is the toolbars ... they are not as flexible as IE's toolbars. For one, you...

Aaron Margosishttp://weblogs.asp.net/aaronmargosis has this radical tool called MakeMeAdminhttp://weblogs.asp.net/aaronmargosis/archive/2004/07/24/193721.aspx ... read on...

After subconciously trying to avoid this for a year or two, this site is now officially a blog. When this site was originally started, it was meant to be a technical cont...

When people take an established character namehttp://www.ianfleming.org/index.shtml and give it to someone elsehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373469/. Seriously, what the h...

Thishttp://mindprod.com/unmain.html is one of the funniest things I've read in a long while. And this is one of the most unexpected twistshttp://www.theforce.net/theater/...

So I've been reading Introducing Microsoft WinFXhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/understanding/books/rector/default.aspx in physical formhttp://www.bookpool.com/.x/tj6m...

Having run into this issue beforehttp://www.codecube.net/item.asp?ccitemid=208, I was quickly able to diagnose the problem. Unfortunately, I was dealing with more complex...

At the time of this post, Orlando is in the 4 spot for Top Cities for Longhorn Meetupshttp://longhorn.meetup.com/members/. Not exactly groundbreaking at a whopping 15 sig...

In preparation for the Longhorn Meetuphttp://longhorn.meetup.com, I've been playing with Xamlonhttp://www.xamlon.com ... fun times. The product shows a hell of a lot of p...

Not only do many of Microsoft related blogs seem to be down, but the mother of all sites, Google, seems to be down as well. Reports are trickling in that it seems to be a...

I haven't seen anyone else try this so I was really hoping it was possible. But I was able to get a DirectX9 sample compiled and running using Visual Studio 2005.

Find 30 minutes and watch this video on Avalon 3D56Khttp://msdn.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/longhorn/media/en/2004-06-07%20avalon%203d/manifest.xml&rat...

Learn how to easily lobotomize yourself in 4 hours This is the most mind numbing experience I have ever ... experienced. That being said, due to the fact that it is onlin...

The code for an easy to use DirectX based Camera This class will allow you to abstract the issue of placing and moving the \"camera\" in a direct3d application. Once instan...

Ok, this is probably not going to be exciting to anyone but myself ... but I've got some quads moving around indepently of each other using Direct3D. And they're textured...

For the first time, I've had to deal with a bug caused by the whole reference type thing in .NET For those of you who don't know, any class in .NET is going to be a refer...

In a deep deep moment of introspection ... I think I've realized one of the single most important skills that a developer can possess. Caching! Not one single development...

Who would have known an RFChttp://www.jabber.org/ietf/draft-ietf-xmpp-core-24.txt could be so compelling? I really like the idea of XMPP from what I've read so far. Espec...

Apparently, building a railgunhttp://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/electro/railgun/railgun.html isn't that tough. I'll certainly be trying this out in the near future ....

According to Scotsman.com, skateboardinghttp://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=679452004 will be on the curriculums. \"SCHOOL pupils are to be given at least two hours of p...

Here's the fix to a Microsoft Acknowledged problemhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329065 with ASP.NET and the Index Service. Not too bad of a prob...

Get Directions to the libraryhttp://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&address=101%20E.%20Central%20Blvd.&city=Orlando&state=FL&zipcode=32801&homesubmit.x=0&homesub...

Within a week of incorporating ONETUGhttp://www.onetug.org, the flood begins. This is totally unbelievable ... I got 8 pieces of snail mail spam from companies trying to...

<CFOpenhttp://www.cfopen.org just opened ... Coldfusioners rejoice! They're basically running a coldfusion only sourceforge that aims to host high quality projects instea...

I remember when Nintendo was on top of the world ... now it seems they're going the way of Sega. \"Officials from Nintendo have announced that the company's profits have f...

Something for you Pocket PC owners that like anime! Just extract the .tsk files and put them in your \"My Documents\" folder on the PDA.

When June 21st ... all day flyerhttp://www.skateparkoftampa.com/spot/imageviewer.aspx?img=images/gsdemailer504.jpg The International Association of Skateboard Companiesht...

I've been playing Fight Night 2004 ... it's my new favorite game. I've always loved a game feature that takes practice and skill to master. The Helos in the Desert Combat...

After Stan'shttp://www.vbnetexpert.com presentation at onetughttp://www.onetug.org, I've been playing around with .NET Nukehttp://www.dotnetnuke.com ... it is SOO Awesome...

Wowhttp://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/164810 I really got to get around to watching the rest of them ... fantastic story, fantastic use of music ... just wow.

\"Life's too short for the command line\" Tim Platthttp://www.developercoach.com Response to a comment about dropping down to the command line instead of spending money on...

BeaverTailhttp://adsi.mvps.org/adsi/CSharp/beavertail.html ... no, it's not a porn site for beavers, but it is a pretty nifty open source Active Directory browser written...

Apparently, Alan Szabo Jr. is quite the radio controled heli pilothttp://www.HeliHobby.com//videos/alanpiccolopro-1.wmv Simply amazing ... the way he controls the heli is...

abSIRDhttp://plaza.ufl.edu/lewey/download/SIRD/q2/index.html is a Quake II modification that renders visually as a \"magic eye\" image ... amazing! I still haven't download...

hehe, this is hilarious, while at the same time very ingenious. The Placebo Mini-patternhttp://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/08/01/theplacebominipattern for long running pro...

Here's a nifty way of getting the name of whatever method called the method you're currently in. Good for app logging utilities. using System.Diagnostics; ... StackTrace...

In a move that is sure to stun open source zealots everywhere. Microsoft releases the source codehttp://research.microsoft.com/research/allegiance/ to a game called Alleg...

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate delegates in the .NET framework. They're so easy to invoke, and I love the asynchronous capabilities. It's gotten me out of som...

Want XHTML compliant ASP.NET pages? XHTML Web Controlshttp://www.xhtmlwebcontrols.net/index.aspx This has been long coming for the ASP.NET community ... that was one of t...

Thishttp://www.xlife.org/atomic/ is the kind of stuff that keeps me interested in game programming Specifically cool is the ragdoll demohttp://www.xlife.org/atomic/fallfi...

The bastards over at AT&T are suing Paypalhttp://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/20/2352230.shtml?tid=123&tid=155&tid=99 over their e-everything patent. This really does need...

Sweet! I've got Longhorn up and running on an 800mhz machine with 512MB. SDK installed as well I'm having a blast looking through the samples that came with the SDK ... t...

MSDN subscribers can log in to download an ISO Image of longhorn along with all the goodies such as the SDK I should be installing it tomorrow ... just got finished watch...

this articlehttp://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,61045,00.html?tw=wntophead9 on the australian e-voting system is really interesting. I'd love to be a part of a project...

Linus Torvalds makes an appearance in wiredhttp://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/linus.html I've always been a microsoft lover, probably always will be. But for some r...

Excellent article in the longhorn developer center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaero/html/apparchetypes.asphttp://msdn.microsoft.co...

When initializing a recursive class, meaning that it has a property of its own type, try to avoid calling the constructor for the child property in the default value. You...

When checking a Visual Studio.NET Solution into a source control repository such as Vaulthttp://www.sourcegear.com/vault/. Make sure you do not include the /bin and /obj...

This fails \"DROP TABLE People\" but this doesn't \"DROP TABLE People\" I thought that was standard sql, but I guess I was wrong. come to think of it ... It must not be becau...

Just a quick code snippet on how to access and display SqlCeExceptions. please note that SqlCeExceptions can have one or more error at a time ... that's why it actually s...

http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/ It's finally here! I can't wait to delve deep into this

Check out this really cool samplehttp://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=36a3e666-6877-4c26-b62d-bfd7cb3154ac at gotdotnet It will profile...

For a new project I'm working on, I had to download the entire contents of the Open Directory projecthttp://rdf.dmoz.org/ The content file clocks in at a healthy 1.22 gig...

I'm reading this Data Points articlehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/09/DataPoints/default.aspx by John Papa, I needed to find sscesa20.dll which he referenced...

While working on a Pocket PC app that will connect to a web service, I came across the need to test whether the device was able to connect to a URL before trying to do so...

Wow, this was almost maddening ... I tried to deploy a webservice to a windows 2003 server and kept getting a FileNotFound exception on some wierd files in the c:\windows...

An upcoming project that I'm working on will likely require the use of replication ... here are a few informational links Merge Replicationhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/libra...

Read the articlehttp://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=A9938E090C326799 at CommunityMX.com Abstract Learn the ins and outs of compiling .NET source code using: - Not...

Check out the Application Blockshttp://www.microsoft.com/resources/practices/Audiences.aspdev that microsoft has put together for us ... I think that it is crucial for de...

dofactory.comhttp://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx whipped up a pretty cool collection of design patterns ... source code included. ...

Just finished contributing to a chapter for the upcoming Flash Remoting MX: The Definitive Guide for O'Reilly. Needless to say, I was honored that I got a chance to contr...

A small utility for merging two directories into one ... download herehttp://www.codecube.net/demos/dotnet/x-merge.zip C Source Code included This simple utility lets you...

Since ADO.NET's DataReader is nothing more than a direct stream from the database, there's no way to find out the number of records being returned ... until now. This ide...

Since I've been working so much on Community MXhttp://www.communitymx.com/ which as you know is written in Coldfusion, I've started to explore the java integration in CFM...

Blogshareshttp://www.blogshares.com is quite the addicting little hobby. You can view my portfoliohttp://www.blogshares.com/user.php?id=6321 to see what I'm up to. I can'...

Community MXhttp://www.communitymx.com/ is finally launched! After much hard work on the part of many people ... this site is now live. This is gonna be fun!

A PONG clone created in C using GDI+. Download herehttp://www.codecube.net/demos/games/pongclone.zip I finally got around to posting this ... it's been done for a couple...

A simple ID3 tag browserhttp://www.codecube.net/demos/dotnet/id3.zip important: .NET Framework required After getting an ideahttp://blog.web-shorts.com/?day=3/12/2003blog...

Just a few more days left till the best conference under the sunhttp://www.mxnorth.com ... I can't wait! I'm doing two sessions - Migrating ASP to ASP.Nethttp://www.mxnor...

New site about to be launch ... check out some preview content at www.communitymx.comhttp://www.communitymx.com The official announcement can be found below CommunityMX.....

An article written my me is now published at Macromedia's Designer and Developer center. Read it herehttp://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/dreamweaver/articles/graphingaspn...

Chapter 3http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/dreamweaver/articles/dotnetwebform.html of my book ASP.NET development with Dreamweaver MX can be seen at Macromedia's desdev...

This memohttp://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php?memoid=1321 states that Java should not be used for internal projects. That's pretty bad when it's own company...

In my experiments with making PONG in C, I wanted to make the ball bounce around more realistically. This is what I came across. I started looking for ways to move ball a...

Since my last articlehttp://www.codecube.net/item.asp?ccItemID=144, I've implemented some new features to my pong game. The first feature is the paddles ... they are simp...

This simple demo demonstrates some simple animation using C and GDI+ All it does right now is bounce a 10 pixel sized \"ball\" around the screen ... the middle line is just...

Just came across this rather interesting projecthttp://gi.kamron.net/english/index.php that just might help me out in my quest/dhtml/ to become a game developer http://gi...

Thishttp://media.smilepop.com/smilepop/flash/062002/may02-smilepop-soapbox2.swf should be required viewing for anyone owning a pc for the first time. http://media.smilepo...

ASP.NET Development with Dreamweaver MX: Visual QuickPro Guide more info to come soon...

Using this nifty little tool, you can create strongly typed Collections that even support Enumeration using the foreach construct. http://www.codecube.net/demos/dotnet/co...

I had to do a little market research for someone, and the Google web apihttp://api.google.com came to the rescue. Paypal wanted the duplicate stores filtered in this quer...

Came across an interesting link I thought I'd share The Alexander Techniquehttp://www.alexandertechnique.com/ shows you how to adjust even the most minute of physical mov...

Googlismhttp://www.googlism.com/ uses Google search technology to gather some rather interesting facts about anyone and anything. Google amazes me more every day ... with...

You know you're amongst geeks when you're at a restaurant and a waiter drops some plates and someone busts out with ... \"Uh, Oh! the server crashed!\" This was the scene t...

I've had to start playing with XML-RPChttp://www.xml-rpc.com/, and it's amazing this didn't catch on sooner. Of course, now we have SOAP web services which do the exact s...

A bit ago, I was having a problem with ColdFusionhttp://www.codecube.net/item.asp?ccitemid=129 ... I have discovered the fix. Simply surround all of this code that isn't...

Thishttp://dwfile.com/index.php?Pageid=9 has got to be one of the coolest extensions ever made for Dreamweaver ... now you don't have to switch out of DW to control Winam...

Lately, I've been revisiting some of the projects I've worked on in the past year or two, and it's amazing how far the web has come. Well, perhaps that last statement was...

In an impressive move towards web standards, wired.comhttp://www.wired.com launches a new design using only XHTML and CSS. This is a good thing because it's probably the...

I've recently been learning ColdFusion because of an upcoming project I'm working on ... this is just one small quirk that really irks me. It's a tag based language, whic...

This FAQWhat about my website name being evilly registered by others ahead of me? poses the question, \"What about my website name being evilly registered by others ahead...

I've been playing with css a lot lately ... these CSS menus are one of the results. After reading Eric Meyer on CSS, I decided to try to make a menu that could be changed...

A good friend of mine emailed me wanting to know more about .NET arrays ... I ended up writing so much in the email I thought it might help someone else too. ------------...

The simple example gives you a simple way to recover from errors when working with sensitive database tables. Many people that work with databases, have one or many table...

After reading thishttp://www.digital-web.com/features/feature2002-09.shtml article, I decided to see how much the font tag could potentially cost a website. I got curious...

Thishttp://www.508compliant.com/tools.htm is absolutely one of the best tools I have seen in a long time. Disguised as simple bookmarklets, these three tools really help...

http://www.phireworx.comhttp://www.phireworx.com For some of the most amazing fireworks extensions, check this place out. I had the distinct pleasure of meeting one of th...

The Other Dreamweaver CONferencehttp://www.todcon.org starts tomorrow ... Ihttp://www.todcon.org/speakers.aspx?sid=8 leave tonight. UPDATE: 9/9/02 Wow! that was an amazin...

After building a Rich Site Summary RSShttp://www.codecube.net/rss.aspx, I decided to take the next step, and build a reader that will read any rss v0.91 feed. This was al...

Since XHTML is an XML application, certain characters are not allowed because they have special meaning in XHTML. This means that dynamic querystrings generate errors. Th...

This sitehttp://www.the5k.org pushes people to get real creative with their entries to keep the download size under 5k. Where else can you find Dope Warshttp://www.the5k....

Until the print edition arrives, you can downloadhttp://www.mxinsite.com/ an electronic copy. This web services article is going to be my first printed work so I can't wa...

I just finished redesigning the Orlando .NET User Group'shttp://www.onetug.org web site and I learned just what makes code behind valuable. Since the code is contained in...

W3C's HTML validatorhttp://validator.w3.org/ doesn't just validate HTML as I found outhttp://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.codecube.net%2Frss.aspx&charset=%28detect+auto...

Hot on the heels of my last site maintenancehttp://www.codecube.net/item.asp?ccItemID=112, I've added another feature. Looking at the left navigation menu, you will find...

XHTML 2.0 recently got drafted ... You can see the full spec herehttp://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/, And some of the differences can be seen herehttp://www.webreference.com/xml...

Jackass the moviehttp://www.jackassthemovie.com/ I gotta say that I love Jackass ... and any derivativeshttp://ratbastard.org/blogass/. But the bad thing about this, is t...

Inspired by this spiffy toolhttp://www.haddock.org/blogs/, I made an RSS feedhttp://www.codecube.net/rss.aspx for this site. Not that anyone would actually want to use an...

So apparently, Image now stands for Binary ... I'm working on a web application that requires me to store some binary data like Word doc's, Excel files, and other such da...

The first print issue for MX inSitehttp://www.mxinsite.com just got done today, and I gotta say it looks fabulous. The cover done by the wonderful and talented Japihttp:/...

http://www.newcomputerbooks.com/http://www.newcomputerbooks.com/ The latest for the leastest. but seriously ... if you're looking to order new books, you wont get em chea...

Every programmer has done it before ... just can't quite remember that OLEDB connection string to MySql. Well wonder no moreConnectionstrings.comhttp://www.connectionstri...

Using code to dynamically push a download to the browser can come in handy in quite a few situations. This simple function only takes a full file path... private void Pus...

In case anyone has noticed, there haven't been a lot of updates in the past weeks. Well, the reason is because I've been busy with other things such as: - Working on the...

In a rare display of philosphical genious, I came up with an analogy This resulted in the creation of the following banner It came during a discussion about mxinsite.comh...

I saw Starwars Episode II: Attack of the clones last night... All I gotta say is, WoW! This movie has so much going on that it is amazing... you got Obi-Wan on this plane...

Thought this was pretty funny. Seems almost like poetic justice ... Not that I wish this onto the good folks at Scripting News, but I'm so tired of people taking every ch...

Just because a page has a .aspx extension, does not mean that it will start up a session. I encountered this because I installed an asp.net version of the user tracking c...

We finally got around to launching the DWTeamhttp://www.dwteam.com/ site yesterday. The team consists of the well known names in the DW community. I'm in there somewhereh...

Ever had users double click on that submit button resulting in double database entries? Here's the answer. A simple javascript function that you can apply to the onClick...

After participating in several discussions that I'm sure anyone involved in web design has heard before, I'm starting to get sick and tired of this Netscape 4.x garbage....

In my previous article on \"alternative\" web serviceshttp://www.codecube.net/item.asp?ccItemID=82. I showed you how you can share information across websites. Here's a sma...

This little script lets you test how different colors look with each other... quite cool. http://www.codecube.net/demos/color.htmlhttp://www.codecube.net/demos/color.html...

Any web designer should know how to do this... the ability to accurately resize your window to any of the major screen resolutions to test your designs. Just type any of...

Apparently, you can't have a string longer than 127 characters in Javascript. I discovered this when working on a dhtml application with a database backend. I had to buil...

Since the .Net framework was built using Object Oriented Methods, you can use this to your advantage to save yourself some typing down the road... As you may know, Every...

Attributes can help you polish your web service, and improve performance. Web services are certainly quite useful... The .Net framework has some pretty nifty features tha...

Based on a request I received, here are some newbie guidelines. This is for the complete beginner to programming on the web. Although it may seem to some like obvious inf...

I came across this issue while working, and just wanted to share it so others don't get hung up on it like I did. I was trying to add a OnSelectedIndexChanged event to a...

Finally, a print magazine dedicated to all of the products in the Macromedia Web Development catalog. From Dreamweaver to Flash to Cold Fusion, MX inSite provides complet...

view the reference herehttp://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Programming/Scripter/050698/ref.html I've been playing with regular expressions recently, and I'm amazed...

Classic ASP allowed you to use one method to get either form or querystring values... this is the asp.net version. This function allows you to get a value regardless of w...

Have you ever wanted to pop up an alert from server side code, or open a new window? This user control lets you execute any javascript command from Asp.Net The benefits o...

If you don't want people to exploit the old right click/save as on your images, heres a simple deterant that may work. It involves the simple concept of a <div tag that c...

The .Net framework version 1 has been released!!! go and download it herehttp://www.asp.net/download.aspx

This control for Ultradev's Server Behavior Builder places an empty listbox in the UI. you can then edit the generated HTML file by hand to add your own custom options yo...

This extension allows you to place a list of files from any given directory in your website in an html listbox. You can go and download this extension from UDZone.com at...

Web services can be confusing/overly complex at times... especially to implement remotely. This is a much easier solution. This article builds upon the article found at 4...

In the previous articleitem.asp?ccItemID=80, I showed you how to track each individual session that is started on your site. now we explore different reports that can be...

Tracking information about your users is a very important part of being a webmaster. here's the method I use on this site Of course you could use tracking programs like w...

This Ultradev extension allows you to open a new window using an address from a database or any source available from the data sources palette. Download from UDZonehttp:/...

The paypal developers network posted a sample chapter of the upcoming book E-Commerce Concepts with Ultradevhttp://www.basic-ultradev.com/ecommconcepts/index.asp Read it...

The size page that a printer will print, regardless of your resolution, is approximately 720 pixels So you should design any article or written work on your site to be ei...

For the lazy of typing out there, now you can have the easy to use functions that VBScript has in your favorite client side language! For those of you that didn't know, t...

Q: How do I build a master/detail drilldown page using Dream weaver Ultradev? A: In order for this concept to be totally understood, you must understand how the database...

Utility that takes some plain text, and transforms linebreaks to html breaks <script language=\"javascript\" function ptfformat { var pre = document.ptf.pre; var post = doc...

I started working on an Open Source Chat application... check it heredemos/openchat/ The project is going to be hosted at OpenUD.orghttp://www.openud.org very soon, and a...

Have you ever wanted to remotely access your website's Access Database from an internal app, or another website? It's possible... Don't be fooled by the title of this art...

... if you really want to know... Ask Memailto:joel@codecube.net

I've been pretty amazed about how easy it is to use mySQL... this makes it easier. You can download this tool at http://www.dbtools.com.br/http://www.dbtools.com.br/ It l...

wow, I've been using php for the last 3 days, and I love it... you can check out what I've been up to at http://php.dwteam.com/joel/http://php.dwteam.com/joel/ Its really...

I thought I would never use geometry again... turns out I did. I had to do some deep digging, but I finally remembered how to work that rise over run thing again. I wrote...

Yet another pet project to tackle. I've come across the opportunity to sell Sci-Fi Collectibles online, and through eBay... so this is another opportunity to practice .Ne...

I've created a .Net webform that parses a valid XRE script against the engine, and gives you the result in the browser. View it HEREhttp://www.codecube.net/products/xreng...

It seems as though brinkster has gotten their .Net issues in control, so I'm going to start making the .Net version of this CSM The only thing that is still messed up, is...

As opposed to using Application variables or include files to hold data like connection strings, you can use the xml formatted web.config file to hold the info, and retri...

Wow... this is some cool stuff... sell shirts with your design's on them for no money on your behalf... just make the profit Visit the Codecube storehttp://www.cafepress....

Find out what robot You really are...

Work on the demo sitehttp://www.codecube.net/teksales/index.asp for the book is progressing quite nicely. the site will feature some paypal cart examples, and some UltraC...

Ever since yesterday, .Net pages on this site have been getting random errors... even ones with no code Brinkster has made no effort to respond to my inquiries... this is...

I've always wanted to get into making video games... Heredhtml/ you can check out my experiments with programming movement. I figure if I can get down moving layers and o...

I entered the XRE Onlineproducts/xrengine/ web service to the Web Services Contesthttp://www.webservicescontest.com yesterday. If I win, I'll have a crack at 10k... or se...

ASP.Net can be run on other servers other than IIS... I don't have the link to the info, but I'm sure you can find it at MSDNhttp://msdn.microsoft.com

Go Therehttp://www.xmethods.net Similar to salcentral.com... you can go here to search for xml web services for consumption

Go Therehttp://www.salcentral.com/salnet/webserviceswsdl.asp Web Service Database... you can find most any service that's currently out there.

Go Therehttp://www.skateparkoftampa.com Any one that likes to skate, will appreciate this site. good info on a great park.

I found this list of wedding gifts for the various anniversary years. our married readers will appreciate this. 1st: paper 2nd: cotton 3rd: leather 4th: fruit and flower;...

Yes, the idea for this script was blatantly ripped off from 4 guysfromrolla... but that script didn't do exactly what I needed, so I took that concept, and changed it for...

For the time being... Access 97 but if the site starts to get traffic, we will upgrade to SQL Server.

The original reason that we started this site for, was to have a place where we could put up demos, and try new things with ASP. now it's turned into a place where we can...

The web service companion for the Xml Rules Engine has been released. Although still in beta version... it provides a sneak preview to what is to come with the downloadab...

The Xml Rules Engine gives you the ability to separate application logic from business rules using an XML Based file. This gives you the ability to change business rules,...

Domain name is working now we can actually provide Xml Webservice and use ASP.Net we will be rewriting this CSM in .Net in the near future... then will be the official la...

I am working on a new product... XRE ... an Xml Based Rules engine This is going to allow software developers to separate Application logic, from Business rules. Thus giv...

Man!!! I just can't get ahead... I know it might be pretty difficult to swallow, but I swear I thought of this without hearing about it... I even started the project in V...

I've never understood why Windows form listboxes can only hold one value the one that's displayed. That's one of the features that an HTML listbox has over it's winform c...

Our prayers go out to the victims of the horrible terrorist attack that went on yesterday september 11, 2001 Hopefully the perpetrators of this heinous act will be caught...

Go Therehttp://www.4guysfromrolla.com/demos/cursorGen.asp This script generates the t-sql code nescessary to make a Cursorbased loop... this allows you to load the sql se...

This webservice returns a dataset of a random article link from the Basic-Ultradev.com database... pretty Nifty I think See it Herehttp://63.74.151.77/bud/randarticle.asm...

Go Therehttp://www.angrycoder.com Angry coder is a website that give great commentary on current issues. I don't think he gives a crap about what anyone else thinks... gr...

Thishttp://www.aspng.com/quickstart/aspplus/samples/classbrowser/vb/classbrowser.aspx has got to be one of the best tools I've found yet for .net developers... It let's y...

Using some code I found at aspng.com I think, I made this very simple to use user control that hits any http address you want and spits out the HTML for you... <script la...

Man... beat to the punch... I was working on this exact same set of extensions on friday 8.31, I guess it's true what my brother says... when you have an idea, ten others...

This is such a great tool for the budding Web consultant... it immediately comes up with great buzz-word terms for use in your Resume, Proposals, Business Plans, Vision S...

RIPhttp://www.basic-ultradev.com/ecommconcepts/ <Update Unfortunately, this book has been canceled while in post production. </Update Learn to build E-Commerce applicatio...

go Therehttp://123aspx.com/ This is a great index of resources... you should be able to find most information that's been written to date here.

Go Therehttp://www.massimocorner.com/ This is a great site for extensions

User controls are a very powerful part of ASP.Net. in classic ASP, many people used include files for template functions... user controls can be used to extend this conce...

This is a great website... lots of good resources updated frequently. lots of the technology on this site has been learned at 4guys... Scott Michel one of the 4guys is qu...

Great site headed up by Ray West and Tom Muck...Authors of 3 recent Ultradev books Lots of good extensions on there.

DHMTL Centralhttp://www.bratta.com/script/ This guy is something serious... he's got some great scripts on here, and you should go show im some love.

This Javascript function will post a form to any URL... useful for posting after running through some client side form validation... also useful for posting to a new wind...

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This is an example of how you can use cursors to let the server handle some of the processing Declare empidcursor cursor --This SQL sTatement will be the contents of the...

Go Therehttp://www.sqlteam.com This is a great site for anyone using SQL Server... there's even a SQL Guru that you can try to stump.

Have you ever made a great design for a page and deployed it over a number of pages, only to have to go back and change one link or image across every page? Many people n...

In Part Iitem.asp?ccItemID=15, we learned a new technique for templating. Now as you may know, Ultradev has a system for templating in place... it basically copies all of...

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Good resource for Beginner or Advanced UD Users... This content Management system is partially based on theirs... but it's because it's so good, that it's really hard to...

We made it! And we can do that same for you for only $19.95 no, only kidding... but you can contact us and we can talk about it

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The content Management system is really coming along... Hopefully this will have an audience someday