august 2008 - Posts
I´m relaunching myself with a brand new design at a brand new location.
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And now for some credits.
I´ve done the design partially myself. Believe me when I say I´m no graphics artist or designer, so I have to get inspiration and "borrow" ideas from here and there. The top header is ofcourse my own, but the content part is a modified version of the Gluttony Wordpress Theme that was adopted to BlogEngine by GravityCube. In addition to this, I´ve gotten the contact actions icons and BlogEngine.net code for using them from David Burke, thanks again for helping me out.
Finally, the service packs we´ve all been waiting for.
.net 3.5 SP1 can be found here and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 can be found here.
Good work guys. Can´t wait to install these.
26th of September we´re holding our third Game Camp event. This time around we´re going across 2 simultaneous tracks. We´ve got a lot of exciting stuff for you, and as always; IT´S FREE.
Scott Bilas is coming to do the keynote and a session as well. Scott has worked on a lot of tripple A games for numerous companies (Sierra Online, Oberon Media, Gas Powered Games). He has had a few talks at the Games Developers Conference and is a strong believer in creating games in a managed environment such as the .net CLR and utilizing Xna. In addition FunCom is coming to talk about their experience in developing Age of Conan. The agenda is so great, you´ve gotta go and read to not miss out. Most game companies in Norway are attending with speakers. This will be our best event yet!
Registration is now open, don´t hesitate to register and show up at this great event.
Read the agenda and register here. And remember to spread the word.
The new position I´m starting at Objectware the 1st of September is focused around Silverlight and WPF. Seeing that Silverlight truely is cross platform, I asked for a MacBook Pro as the preferred computer and got one. The reason for this is both professionally, seeing that I will be working a lot with Silverlight, but also on the personal side. I wanted to explore a part of the universe I´ve never been and I wanted to do it properly. The plan is to use only Windows for Visual Studio and have everything else as software in Mac OSX.
As a true Windows man, I was quite curious as to how this journey would end up. The weeks prior to getting the computer I read articles and started to get familiar with the user interface by skinning my Windows to look and "feel" like Mac OSX. Still, after doing all this preparation I can truely say that I was not prepared at all. Keep in mind that besides Windows, the only operating systems I´ve ever had has been C64, Atari TOS, Amiga OS, OS/2 and DOS.
Thus far, the experience has been quite positive. Apple has truely created a complete experience. The only thing I´ve been having trouble with is to find free software for the things I need; newsreading, blogging, screencasting, torrents. It seems that it is more common for people to pay for software for the Mac. It´s not that the software is expensive, usually the price is some $20-$30. I guess I´m just spoiled for not being used to it. I´ve so far landed on the following software for the 4 activities mentioned:
* Newsreading = NewsGators NetNewsWire
* Blogging = Brain Juices Blogo (In fact, this article was written with it)
* Screencasting = Ambrosia Softwares Snapz Pro
* Torrents = xTorrent
For virtualization, I´m using Parallels. I liked their Coherence mode better than VMWare Fusions. The Windows installation runs in Boot Camp and is used directly by parallels. Runs smoothly. Just gotta figure out the occassional bluescreen I´m having.
One of my goals the next 6 months is to get started with some development targetting the Mac using XCode and Objective C. Also I´ve been wanting to look into iPhone development. The SDK is downloaded at least, so let´s see what the future holds.
On wednesday this week I went in for a routine operation to remove my tonsills. Normally these things take about 20 minutes and they need to observe you for a couple of hours to make sure you´re OK. Turns out, I wasn´t OK after the two hours. I had a really bad reaction to the morphin they gave me. I got really sick and they decided to keep me overnight.
That was a really good decision, because that night has got to be one of the most interesting nights in my life. I had a morphin retraction that was really bad, combined with problems getting all the oxygene into my lounges. I was given medicine for one problem and another popped up, at least that was how it fealt. Anywho. Some 36 hours after the operation, I was finally sent home.
Now I´m just sitting here, enjoying the pain (and the drugs ofcourse).
Btw: Got myself a MacBook pro - so I´m trying to figure that one out during these hazy days.
