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Recently I mentioned this.Log . Given the amount of folks that were interested in this.Log, I decided to pull this source out and make a NuGet package (well, several packages). Source The source is now located at https://github.com/ferventcoder/this.log...

This is a continuation from the previous post . Specification Many games have a start screen or main menu of some sort. (Though I love games like Braid that bypass the whole notion.) Let’s begin by designing our start screen. We’ll have a...

Now that Windsor 3 is released I can concentrate on some of my other ideas and projects. While working on one of them, called Cartographer , I encountered an interesting API design problem. I have a class (a builder to be precise) that has a task of setting...

Few weeks later than originally expected but here it is – Castle Windsor 3.0 (along with its facilities and Castle.Core) achieved release candidate status. There is one major new feature in this release: registration API gained ability to specify...

Acknowledgment: This is meant to be the Windows equivalent of Anders Janmyr ’s excellent post on the subject of finding stuff with Git. Essentially, I’m translating some of Anders’ examples to Powershell and providing explanations for...

Acknowledgment: This is meant to be the Windows equivalent of Anders Janmyr ’s excellent post on the subject of finding stuff with Git. Essentially, I’m translating some of Anders’ examples to Powershell and providing explanations for...

When building a Windows Metro (aka Windows 8) application it is important that your application have a nice looking tile.  It is also encouraged to enable your tile to be ‘live’, meaning it can update itself with content based on some event, if that...