Announcing Dirchie Kart
With the announcement that Microsoft are going to sell the XNA community games over XBox live I figure it’s time to reveal the super secret skunkworks XNA project I’ve been …
Dipping a toe into the WCF pond
Spent the day in WCF yesterday, plenty of reading and then hacked up a couple of different samples I found around the web into a basic but functional client server …
Online Colour Wheel
For anyone out there doing some design, be it a user interface, greeting card or painted master piece, the colour wheel is an invaluable tool for picking colours. I was …
Toon Animation Shader
Didn’t sleep too well last night, my mind was racing after an intense afternoon in HLSL (High Level Shader Language) developing a new shader I had thought up over the …
Fancy Options
With my app running on both sides now (Australia and South Africa), we needed an options control to easily check and edit the various defaults in the app. Seeing it’s …
Handling application close from a user control in WPF
Struck this one the other day and didn’t find a decent answer so here’s my solution. I’ve got a user control or class that I want to have save one …
Bind to the width of a GridSplitter Column WPF
Struggled with this one this afternoon, it seems a simple request, bind the width of a Grid Column to a value so it can be saved on program close and …
Expression Design
The latest beta of expression blend comes packaged with the full "Expression" suite of tools, I’ve been interested in checking out "Design" for some time to add some flare to …
Performance Issues
I’ve had performance issues with my new PC since day one, it’s been all over the place, one minute it’d rip a video at 45FPS next it’d be down to …
New Full Load Builder Interface
Following on from yesterday’s efforts, I’ve had a solid day on the rest of the load builder interface. It’s not quite 100% finished yet, I’ve still a few buttons to …