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I’ve created a little spreadsheet costing up the various bits I’ve assembled so far for the toilet replacement. It’s pretty much on budget so far but that will soon get blown by the tiling and flooring as of course they didn’t come in as prime considerations at the time I started planning. Initial thoughts went … Read more
I love this thread on Slashdot which pretty much sums up my thoughts on games and gaming in general. The thread is inspired by this article which takes a view on the current state of the nation in gaming. We all know what a huge business gaming has become in all aspects: in browser, on mobile, … Read more
In a recent email conversation I touched on the ability, or more often inability, of a one-man software project to deliver regular controlled packets of code. Or to put it another way the the ability for many one-man software projects to deliver very little or nothing at all despite setting out with the best intentions … Read more
I’m lucky enough to live in a nice neighbourhood in Amsterdam dating from when the Olympics were last in town in 1928. The style of the houses is the know collectively as the Amsterdamse school and is typified by an Art Deco and Expressionist theme – curves, use of repeating lines, horizontal ladder effects, extensive … Read more
I saw the Microsoft WOWZAPP 2012 hackathon event as a real opportunity for Microsoft to engage with developers at grass roots level and convince them that they should spend their time creating apps in VS2012 for the Microsoft Store. Therefore it was with some excitement that I arrived the other day at my local event. … Read more
I’ve caught up with some of the Microsoft Build developer conference videos now. Between the non-jokes about the weather in Seattle being bad but not as bad as it is back East and giving away oodles of hardware to attendees there were some pretty interesting things to come out last week’s meeting. It was of … Read more