Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

Some comments on Visual Studio

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Now, before I go on, these are based on Visual Studio 2005 (but I have just looked at Visual Studio 2008 and I have no reason to think these don’t apply). So what are my comments this time around on my Microsoft bashing merry go round :-) (more…)

My first real taste of C#

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

Well, I’ve dabbled with C# before, tweaking a RunUO instance, but this is the first time I’ve actually used the language in anger, writing something from scratch, so I figured I’d just jot down a few thoughts. The project… a PowerPoint add-in.
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ACFW and WordPress 3

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

For anyone who uses my Advanced Custom Field Widget, I thought I’d get ahead of the game and see how it fairs when running under WordPress 3. My initial tests running WP3 on my development blog suggest it will be fine, and should not require any changes.

The tests were done with ACFW Version 0.82 and WordPress 3.0 (Beta 1).

ACFW Version 0.82 Released

Monday, December 21st, 2009

With the release of WordPress 2.9, a fault with the Advanced Custom Field Widget was identified which resulted in blank instances of the widget being displayed. Version 0.82 (available here) has just been released to address the problem.

For more information about the widget, check out my wiki.

ShroudBNC Netgamers Script Moved

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

In my continued efforts to improve the information I provide about the projects I publish, I have moved the information about the ShroudBNC Netgamers script to my wiki.

I’m planning on moving more content to the wiki over the next few weeks, mainly because I find it easier to manage the content than I do when it’s published with WordPress.

ACFW Version 0.8 Released

Friday, July 24th, 2009

I’m pleased to announce, after a bit of a delay, the next version of the Advanced Custom Field Widget has just hit the WordPress Subversion servers.

WordPress media library open_basedir error

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Well, seems today is my lucky day for finding useful bits of information out about WordPress. Here’s the deal… you backup your site, move servers, restore everything and it all appears to work, BUT, when you go back and try and add an old image that you uploaded before you moved, it won’t display the image in the media library… instead you’re getting an error spouting something about security and open_basedir… if this is your problem… read on as I have a solution. (more…)

Pascal Gamer Launched

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Jason “Will” McMillen, the former site manager of Pascal Game Development has launched a new downloadable magazine for those of us who are into developing games with Pascal.

You can get the first edition of Pascal Gamer at the new website at http://www.pascalgamer.com.

Get your free copy of Pascal Gamer at http://www.pascalgamer.com

Get your free copy of Pascal Gamer at http://www.pascalgamer.com

MantisBT graphs not working

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Just a little note which may save someone some time. If you’re using MantisBT and are having problems with getting the graphs and visual captcha working (even though you have GD installed), read on. (more…)

PGD Annual 2009 kicks off

Monday, July 6th, 2009

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the fourth Pascal Game Development Competition, The PGD Annual 2009, has kicked off this weekend.

If you’re into Pascal, and developing games, why not give it a whirl. Head over to the competition website at PGDAnnnual.com for more information, and to sign up and enter.