January 2005 - CraigBlog

  • Build Lights Code

    A few people asked me to post the code for the service I wrote that runs the Build Lights system I built. I did: it's here . Enjoy.
  • FlexWiki Up for a Jolt Award

    The 15th Annual Jolt Awards finalists have been announced , and FlexWiki is on the list in the “Web Development Tools” category...cool. Since this is how I spend a pretty good chunk of my spare time, I don't think anyone will blame me if I...
  • Build Lights

    Inspired by Bubble, Bubble, Build's in Trouble over at Pragmatic Automation , I set up something at my client that is extremely cool. And by “cool” here, I mean “almost painfully nerdy”. Basically, I've hooked up a series of colored...
  • MSDN2 Article Available

    Tim points out that the first MSDN article in a series about how we designed and built MSDN2 is out. Have a read if you're into that sort of thing.
  • A Nerd's Halloween

    I get a fair amount of email about Managed DirectX. I always try to help the people that email me, although it can take me a while (sorry!). Well, back in the Autumn of 2003, someone emailed me asking how to send different different sounds to different...
  • My New Prompt

    Courtesy of the clever Shawn Van Ness , my new command-line prompt is now $P$_$+$G Which, when I set it via either the prompt command or the PROMPT environment variable, gives me a command line that looks like this: C:\data\Projects\flexwiki\FlexWikiCore...
  • Tom Miller's New Book

    Tom Miller 's new book, Beginning 3D Game Programming is out. Given that Tom literally wrote Managed DirectX, and then went on to write an excellent book about it , I'm guessing this one will be good, too. It's definitely on my wish list if anyone wants...
  • 2005

    With a new baby, my wife in school full-time, and some major rennovations going on in the basement, it's going to be hard to find free time to hack unless my current client gives me the boot and I can't find anything else. (Knock wood that doesn't happen...
  • The Year In Review

    2004 has come and gone. It was a huge year for me, both personally and professionally; I hope yours was as good as mine. The end of the year (or in this case, the beginning of the next) is traditionally a time to look back at what happened through the...