Posted in Coding by: Alan G
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22 Jun
It seems a cocked up copy and paste job has broken the tags. Bah! Edit: Although my copy/paste of WordPress installs did bust stuff it was actually the latest version and plugins which did. All sorted after much hair being torn out – and I can’t afford to do that much more!
Posted in Coding, Rant by: Alan G
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20 Jun
Going through an XNA tutorial I came across this: [code lang=”csharp”] protected void CheckBulletHits() { // Check to see of any of the players bullets have // impacted any of the enemies. for (int i = 0; i < iMaxBullets; i++) { if (bullets[i].IsActive) for (int x = 0; x < iTotalMaxEnemies; x++) if (Enemies[x].IsActive) […]
Posted in Politics, Rant by: Alan G
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20 Jun
Having trawled through Jim McGoverns expenses I spotted some belters. £658 for a computer desk. £4360 to set up his 10 page website – surely not. £123 for a trouser press. £950 for a sofa bed. As well as everything from cushions to bath screens he also claimed £2 for a knife. His office expenses […]
Posted in Coding by: Alan G
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19 Jun
Well I eventually gave up on SQL Server CE after suffering their install process again after installing Visual Studio SP1. I did a review of most of the databases around and what I wanted to do with them. I spotted Firebird. Downloaded it and a GUI. A GUI with the only option to hand edit […]
Posted in Coding, Rant by: Alan G
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10 Jun
This afternoon has been a bit of a battle with Microsoft. Now bear in mind none of these installers actually mentioned these as prerequisites in the installation process. I started working on a little game about 2 years ago. I dug it out, spewed when I saw the state of the code and upgraded it […]
Posted in Politics, Random by: Alan G
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10 Jun
Well I have just won my third competition in 6 months. On the SSP site there is a monthly competition run with philosophy football. I just won their International Brigade t-shirt. Two wins in two months from this competition, enter it yourself!
Posted in Books, Random by: Alan G
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03 Jun
Catching up on my blog list has been fun. I was reading about the policy of E-mail zero where you aim to keep your inbox at 0 e-mails at all times by constantly properly filing your mail. Having fallen behind around 2 years ago mines is ever growing. I figured going for RSS zero was […]