We’ve been pushing pretty hard at work recently to become masters of the javascript language. Since we use it so extensively, and recent browser improvements such as compilation to native code of javascript … it means that it’s certainly not going away. On the server-side, we use ASP.NET MVC and have come to be quite [...]
While there are some examples of accessing the Twitter API via C# on the web, I couldn’t really find any good samples of how to do a search. There were some examples that took the REST route and used raw http requests. While others explored the JSON formatting capabilities of the twitter API. In the [...]
Game development is by its nature a visual thing. Unit testing is code that tests other code … and code is by its nature a non-visual exercise. Ever since XNA launched, a recurring thread I’ve often seen is how to best apply unit testing methodology. Particularly when much of the code-base requires things that wouldn’t [...]
What if a network session was more than simply a temporary connection to exchange interactions between two or more geographically distributed participants? What if every encounter meant that the value of your local “installation” grew by just a little bit? These are some of the questions I’ve been asking myself recently after reading an article [...]
Finally! the scurvy media video-to-texture library finally works in xna 2.0. I checked in the changes that show off the new features like the video processor that lets you choose between streaming and in-memory playback mode (in the Branches folder). thanks for all the feedback that I’ve gotten so far, and for everyone’s patience I [...]
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So this may or may not be exciting for you faithful readers, but I’ve decided to release my little project out into the world as open source. The project is called Scurvy Media, and can be found on CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/ScurvyMedia Why did I call it Scurvy Media when it only contains the Video playing library? [...]