Marc from Axialis sent me a message that Axialis is having 50% off sale today and only today. If you are in mood for creating artwork such as […]
SIOL (IPTV provider) managed to upset its customers once more
I have an IPTV provided by biggest national IPTV/IS provider. The current service is poor at best. We have FTTH (the slowest is 20Mb – that’s awesome) but […]
DirectX HLSL compiler chokes on unicode sources
In a week or so I’ve created two HLSL effects in two different .fx files. While they were really simple and straightforward, one of them failed to load […]
Twittering
I have obviously too much free time and thus started twittering. Here is my twitter profile.
Using extension methods to make code less cluttered
Here is an example where an extension method is useful. Take this [LGP] code for example: public EntityCollection<CustomersEntity> GetCustomers() { using (DataAccessAdapter da = new DataAccessAdapter("Data Source=[SERVER];Initial Catalog=Northwind;Integrated […]
CodeRush Xpress is free
A stripped (more express) version of CodeRush, called CodeRush Xpress, is available for download at no charge! And even a bunch of refactorings are included. See the announcement […]
Two computers, one scanner
I have an USB scanner I bought a while ago. It is attached to my computer and it is working fine. Occasionally my wife has to scan pictures […]
Providing syntax editor within a .net application
Many times I’ve incorporated some sort of scripting capabilities into my .net applications. Usually I’d let user to type in some C# code and then I’d take that […]
Visual Studio, CodeRush and Silverlight 2
If your Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 freezes while creating a Silverlight project, or any other project then you might try switching off [CodeRush] add in. Yep, it […]
XNA Game Studio: I could play video but I’d rather not
Did you ever try to play a video inside your DirectX application, or a newer XNA Game Studio? One could assume that this is a trivial task, right? […]