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June 28, 2007
Yes, it has been a long time.
Well, the time has come to close this down, I think. Lets face it, it was never orientated towards game development much.
So I'm taking my exploits off elsewhere, to www.aidanwalsh.net, if anyone is interested. I'll also be taking new projects and ideas with me, so I do …
Well, the time has come to close this down, I think. Lets face it, it was never orientated towards game development much.
So I'm taking my exploits off elsewhere, to www.aidanwalsh.net, if anyone is interested. I'll also be taking new projects and ideas with me, so I do …
October 11, 2006
I'm quite enjoying my Digital Image Processing course. Not only am I getting an excuse to force myself to learn C, but I also get to work with a Playboy centerfold.
And who doesn't enjoy that?
Still haven't heard much back about the timetable/subjects not running messup, except for an email telling m…
And who doesn't enjoy that?
Still haven't heard much back about the timetable/subjects not running messup, except for an email telling m…
October 03, 2006
I have until the fourteenth of this month to get my project proposal ready to hand in at college. The problem is, I have no real idea yet of what I want to do.
Its my final year (HAH!) project, so it has to be something that "reflect[s] the particular interest of the student and the aims and objecti…
Its my final year (HAH!) project, so it has to be something that "reflect[s] the particular interest of the student and the aims and objecti…
September 21, 2006
Its amazing how fast the bubble bursts on somethings.
Talking to one of my friends who did his final year last year, I have since discovered that there are a lot of courses that I need to complete not being run by the college this year. They run on a two year rotation you see, and so they will be ru…
Talking to one of my friends who did his final year last year, I have since discovered that there are a lot of courses that I need to complete not being run by the college this year. They run on a two year rotation you see, and so they will be ru…
September 19, 2006
June. Its been since June since I wrote anything to do with the installer. Don't wory though, it hasn't gone away. I've been in an awful slump lately that I have been having trouble pulling myself out of. I've been working on a couple of small side projects, such as webpages and some small toy stuf…
August 27, 2006
In order to get myself out of the rut I have been in since I got home, I have decided to try a new approach that I read about last week called Structured Procrastination.
The problem is now that getting around to implementing it is at the top of my list...
The problem is now that getting around to implementing it is at the top of my list...
July 21, 2006
Sorry for the poor image quality...
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Much Autographed First Page
EDIT: Changed to hyperlinks for the time being to fix the annoying "broken page". If I think of it I'll change them to thumbnails when I get home.
Cover
Much Autographed First Page
EDIT: Changed to hyperlinks for the time being to fix the annoying "broken page". If I think of it I'll change them to thumbnails when I get home.
July 21, 2006
Quote:Apparently Capcom are using Comic Con this year as a launching ground for their winter line-up. It's meant to be something special, lots of freebies and a few competitions for collectible game memorabilia. If you get chance it might be worth taking a look :-) Pictures would be cool too ;-)
I h…
July 16, 2006
Thanks to ApochPiQ, I have pretty much sorted out my TreeView drawing problems. All I have to do now is go back and add some sorting to push the folder to the top of the tree, and line everything up alphabetically.
The main reason I haven't gotten this done yet is because of the shiney new black Nin…
The main reason I haven't gotten this done yet is because of the shiney new black Nin…
June 30, 2006
I feel like an utter noob at this rate. My main mission for a period of time I won't embarass myself by revealing has been to get the files in each Component to list themselves out in a directory tree. As you can see, its only been going from bad to worse.
The problem is that there is some absolute…
June 30, 2006
I promised myself I'd never do it.
I've been around them all my life. I live in a town renowned for them.
All the same, all of them. All the same. They disrupt life for the ordinary, decent folk. Yet at the same time a thriving business revolves around them, a business run by the ruthless, no mercy f…
I've been around them all my life. I live in a town renowned for them.
All the same, all of them. All the same. They disrupt life for the ordinary, decent folk. Yet at the same time a thriving business revolves around them, a business run by the ruthless, no mercy f…
June 12, 2006
Huzzah! My college results came out on Saturday. I got a B, which is somewhat higher than I was expecting (especially with my craptacular project). So back to school full time come September. Time to start dreaming up a new project...
Boo! 3.1Gigs and 4 hours later, my initial download of Vista beta…
Boo! 3.1Gigs and 4 hours later, my initial download of Vista beta…
June 07, 2006
So, its been a bit. And not a lot has gotten done in the last few weeks, for one reason or another.
However, in the last few days I have managed to pull mu finger out a small bit. Figuring that its more important to have a working version that isn't quite everything I want just yet is better than ha…
However, in the last few days I have managed to pull mu finger out a small bit. Figuring that its more important to have a working version that isn't quite everything I want just yet is better than ha…
May 17, 2006
Nothing major, I just want to get a reaction from a few people here.
One of the abilities in an Installer Image is that of breaking the files to be installed into Components. This is pretty much as it suggests, a collection of related files that the user has a choice of installing or ignoring.
Howeve…
One of the abilities in an Installer Image is that of breaking the files to be installed into Components. This is pretty much as it suggests, a collection of related files that the user has a choice of installing or ignoring.
Howeve…
May 17, 2006
So this morning one of my indirect managers comes up to me with his laptop in hand. This has been a bad thing to see coming in the past. Following on from that experience, there was one application that had been copied across that he wanted to be able to work with. Now the program was running fine,…
May 16, 2006
Listening to this weeks Java Posse podcast, they had a feedback item on a topic that was raised a couple of casts ago, the question of the increased difficulty in distributing Java applications to the common user due to the necessity of, at least once, having to face the possiblility of sourcing, d…
May 14, 2006
I've been working on the 7z archive handler, as its really the last stumbling major block on getting the current version of the builder out. Everything after that is either a variation of what already exists, or bug fixes.
Since managed handlers for the 7z format seem to be non-existant, I had decid…
Since managed handlers for the 7z format seem to be non-existant, I had decid…
May 02, 2006
In part one, I wrote a little on my opinion of the current state of GUIs in installers. This entry is about taking a different approach, and why I think it needs to be taken.
Of course, everything listed here is intended to be universal across platforms.
Muggles
The first method I decided to take a lo…
Of course, everything listed here is intended to be universal across platforms.
Muggles
The first method I decided to take a lo…
May 01, 2006
... I show off my web design skills (or lack there of).
Tomorrow, definately part two of the GUI entries, with a demo to boot.
Tomorrow, definately part two of the GUI entries, with a demo to boot.
April 29, 2006
So today I sat down with the intention of writing up the second part of my GUI posts, and creating a small C# program to demo it - just to give people a proper feel so they can give better feedback.
Instead, I hit the Lounge, read a thread on webcomics, recognise one title and end up reading the ent…
Instead, I hit the Lounge, read a thread on webcomics, recognise one title and end up reading the ent…
April 26, 2006
As I promised before, I'm going to throw up one or two posts about what I want to do with the Installer. First up is the client GUI system.
This topic is a bit of a stretch, so I decided to break it over two entries.
Tonight I'm going to throw out some ideas, thoughts and observations on the current …
This topic is a bit of a stretch, so I decided to break it over two entries.
Tonight I'm going to throw out some ideas, thoughts and observations on the current …
April 26, 2006
I finally pulled my finger out and created the task list I always wanted. I decided to theme it around the rest of the site's default skin (ya-boo if you're viewing from the black theme!), and hopefully turning things from black to green to red will be one extra little motivation to get to work.
Sho…
Sho…
April 21, 2006
Yeah, so that didn't happen. Tonsilitis, and all the accompanying headaches, weaknesses, and all that other fun stuff has kept me away from the computer for some time.
Hopefully I'll be back to it after I finish the antibiotics at the weekend.
Hopefully I'll be back to it after I finish the antibiotics at the weekend.
April 10, 2006
I'm afraid I don't have much to show for anything so far this week. I have been pretty bogged down in stuff that has been taking a bit of my time and concentration.
Aside from some personal stuff that I'm not going to go into here other than to describe as an utter head wreck, in the last two weeks …
Aside from some personal stuff that I'm not going to go into here other than to describe as an utter head wreck, in the last two weeks …
March 26, 2006
Does anyone know how a company can justify selling electronic services for largely differing prices depending on where you are buying from?
Out of interest, and a desire to play with the Vista builds, I decided to take a look into the pricing of an MSDN subscription. Me being a starving student, I f…
Out of interest, and a desire to play with the Vista builds, I decided to take a look into the pricing of an MSDN subscription. Me being a starving student, I f…
March 26, 2006
Well, I finally managed to get up off my arse this week and get some work done.
I have the build controller for the Images created, all I have to do now is tweak the settings and finalise some of the details. The XML dictionary gets built pretty quick (the C# XML API is a beaut), and the files are t…
I have the build controller for the Images created, all I have to do now is tweak the settings and finalise some of the details. The XML dictionary gets built pretty quick (the C# XML API is a beaut), and the files are t…
March 21, 2006
I wasn't planning on writing anything for a few days yet, so I'm afraid that like my last spontaneous writing, this might not read very well...
Whenever I get thinking about copy protection, I find myself getting flustered. Its a topic that I have trouble with, one that interests me, but my problem …
Whenever I get thinking about copy protection, I find myself getting flustered. Its a topic that I have trouble with, one that interests me, but my problem …
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