Archive for April, 2005

Dan Lash’s interview

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

Here is the story of Dan Lash’s interview at Microsoft in January. Pics and Videos included:
http://danlash.com/qwix/seattle.html

It’s spring, go geocaching!

Monday, April 18th, 2005

The sun is shining and I feel like doing something outside. It’s been a few years, but I’m planning on doing a bit of geocaching this spring/summer. Don’t know what this is? Here is the official FAQ. The basic idea is that you get a few buddies and a GPS device […]

Avalon March CTP whitespace issues

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

The issue of whitespace preservation often comes up when working with XML. XAML, being XML, is no exception. Take this for example:
<StackPanel>
<TextFlow><Bold>i’m Bold</Bold> <Italic>i’m Italic</Italic></TextFlow>
</StackPanel>
You might expect this to render with a space between the Bold and the Italic text, but this is not the case.
it will instead look like: i’m […]

How to learn a .net API

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

So I’m going to Redmond in less than 2 months (after E3 of course), and I need to become capable with the Avalon API so I can jump right in there and get some work done. Here are some tips I’ve discovered on how to learn a [huge] .net API.
1) download the docs and […]

Ballistic Demo

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

can we pretend I didn’t take a two+ month absence from blogging? Lets just say I’m lazy + I broke my tablet and lost most of my stuff.
To make up for this I decided to post and EARLY demo of the game I’m currently working on. A few of us at MSU decided […]