BinaryJam

I was lucky enough to be best man at my friends wedding over the weekend.  I had my speech all laid out on my HTC wizard mobile device, which allowed me to edit and make adjustments up to the last minute.

But afterwards the brides brother came up to me and explained that at this wedding were amongst others a Russian rocket scientist and he himself was an aeronautical engineer, and they all thought, “Geek”, when I read from the device.

I don’t know whether that is a good thing or bad.

tags: geek, smartphone, pocketpc

Whilst reading Scott Hanselman’s blog I clicked on the ruby on rails site.  The Ruby site is showcasing its spawn and via shopify, a real neat idea for the small business, I found this

http://shop.thepasty.com/

I cannot think of a better use of the internet than to get pasties delivered.

tags: Pasty, Web, Shop

There is a definate buzz about yesterdays XNA annoucement.  However the downloads (well the beta 2) version is not released but today (UK time) there is more information on the XNA site complete with forums. Still no depth to exactly how the xbox 360 stuff is going to work but at least a little more. So this is the last about it from me, well until I actually try some things, for those interested keep an eys onthe XNA team blog and the newly revamped XNA site. Tom Miller XNA Team Blog XNA Developer Center

tags: XNA, Game+Development

MS have release the beta of windows live write an offline blog editor.  You probably alrady know this but this is my excuse to actually try a post with it.

http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/

tags: Windows+Live+Writer, Microsoft, blogs

Having quite a few friends in the Games industry in Core, Gusto, Climax, Rare I keep an eye on things as once I looked into moving into this area but it did not pay enough for the hours worked, especially as I would have been moving from a lead role in business web development to general tool lackey in games. Even now I see the effort that my friends are “subjected” to and I really don’t want it. But that doesn’t mean that games writing does not still interest me, last year I bought the managed DirectX programming book. But down to the details. MS are announcing some cool things for the hobbyist in games, the ability to write your own, with managed DirectX you always could have a go but the XNA tool-set makes this easier, but the really cool bit here is to be able to write for Xbox 360, now that really grabs my attention. The Xbox stuff is not announced or released fully yet but keep an eye out for this imminently See Here http://blogs.msdn.com/tmiller/archive/2006/08/13/699131.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/default.aspx

tags: microsoft, games+development, xna, directx

I’ve created a new area in my site called places. I am going to attempt to write a bit about places I have been and supplement it with pictures.

Take a look now and again, I hope to update it with a few more places but for now there is one.

You will need to access the site as its done using pages in wordpress, which doesnt RSS.

Again my domain for binaryjam is down. The hosting company Catalyst2 have made changes to the .Net security model due to hackers coming along and breaking things. Which then meant that the support dept came along and broke the site.

I doubt a solution will be forthcoming so I will have to migrate content here. I will look at writing something that can take dasBlog XML files and post them direct. If I don’t get the time I’ll post some of the more useful blog postings of the main site, well useful to me at least hopefully any stray soul who wanders here by mistake might find it useful to.

*Update*
Well I was right, the guys at catalyst2 could not alter the security as it would endanger everybody’s site so this is the new permanent site.  I must say though whilst I was at Catalyst they were excellent and the support is always quick.  They even agreed that a partial refund due to me having to migrate was in order.  You can’t get better than that.

So if you are looking for a hosting solution then catalyst2 are good, so long as you dont require more than medium level .NET security.

One thing I did not look into was to migrate to linux/perl/php hosting with them and host my own wordpress site instead.  This may have been my ideal solution, proper domain name, wordpress blog, great support.  Just one small problem…what’s php?