CS476 Represent!
Heh, this is a Friday shout out to my project group for CS476–Ed (Myung) Kim, Roger Chang, and Craig Lichtenstein. These guys were a great group to work with as everyone really took responsibility for their parts of the project...
Category: Technology
Porn, Hollywood, and Microsoft
It’s a wonder why you and I are still viewing movies via physical mediums like DVDs. To be honest, I’m really not sure why there’s even such a huge fuss over BluRay vs. HDDVD. About three or four years ago,...
Thoughts on Microsoft Acrylic
I started playing with Acrylic a bit today and I’m amazed (bet you didn’t see that one coming). For the purpose of reference, so you know where I’m coming from, here’s some background: I started doing graphics work with Paint...
A Video Card w/ External Power!??
Talk about monstrosities. Wow. Check out the Asus N7800GT dual GPU vid card 😮
Got CS?
Good news for us CS (computer science) graduates! Well, at least according to Mr. Gates: “Gates addressed University of Michigan students Wednesday in kicking off a three-day college tour aimed at getting young people interested in computer science and related...
BizTalk Vs. Windows Workflow Foundation
Having worked with BizTalk Server 2004, SQL Server Integration Services (replacement for DTS), and having taken a quick glance at Windows Workflow Foundation, I was kind of confused why Microsoft would create so many competing technologies, especially considering the high...
Miyamoto Interview at Engadget
Engadget is featuring an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. In commenting on the Revolution controller, Miyamoto says: “Personally, I feel that first-person shooters are really well-suited for this controller. I’ve worked on them in the past in the Metroid Prime Series....
ASP.Net Cost of Entry
Over the weekend, I was looking for some nice .Net based, open source web based photo gallery applications. There are only a small handful of such products, including nGallery and Community Server (which uses nGallery). On the other hand, one...
Hideo Kojima: Pragmatic Programmer
“Kojima: – I’m not a game producer because I want to make money – I just want to MAKE something. There weren’t any good producers at the time I was looking for one, so I did it myself. I live...
Of Katamaris and Revolutions
I came across a link this morning (via Ars) to a forum where Chris Kohler of Wired News does an impromptu Q&A on his exeprience with the Revolution controller at TGS. Kohler echoes some of the same sentiments that I...