Shockwave of Fury
Tonights coding efforts have born much fruit, I managed to finally generate a decent texture to use for base of the shockwave effect and roughly impliment the effect in game. The in …
Real Time Warping of the background texture (Fisheye lens ripple thiny)
Zett headed to the movies with the work girls tonight, so I’ve spent the whole night looking at a special effect for Ride the Fury. This is just a proof …
Setup email from MS SQL Server 2000 via a Notes server
First install Outlook 2000 on the server. Login as the user that you SQL service starts as (SQLService in our case). Run Outlook making sure you choose the Corporate or …
Convert a String to a GUID in C#
This is a simple one that didn’t take all that long to find a solution for but I thought it was worth putting up here anyhow seeing it’s not all …
Hide a textbox in RS when value is Null
This is one I’ve had to use a few times and keep forgetting so I’ll stick it here for next time. Stick this into the visibility property on a textbox …
List your scheduled tasks next run time and average duration MSSQL
Here’s a handy little query I came up with to list your scheduled jobs, what time they’re going to run next and their average duration on your MSSQL box. I’ve …
CLear MSSQL DB log file without backing it up
This is one that has come in hand a few times, if you’ve accidentaly filled up you data drive on your SQL server and don’t have the space left to …
Calling C++ Defined Functions from C source
Came across this one today, I’m sure I’ve hit it before but of course I didn’t remember. The worst part of the problem is that the error message is not …
New Code Blog
Welcome all, I’ve setup this blog to separate the code and XNA articles from my regular blog. The hope is to focus the two blogs more, freeing me up to go …