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Diablo 3!

PaulM — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:04:17 GMT

Not much to say, i am just stunned. I was a seriously hardcore Diablo 1 and 2 player. This is siply a dream come true for me and other die hard diablo fans! Anyway check it out...

http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/

I Love you Blizzard!!

Intype - Code Editor

PaulM — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:22:06 GMT

Today I finally used Intype code editor, and it is pretty neat, it pretty much allows you to insert half the necessary stuff. It is still in alpha stages but it sure does have a lot of potential. The full stable version when released will not be free and may cost you somewhere between $25 and $45.

For more information have a look at the FAQ section.

DreamSpark coming 'Down Under'!

PaulM — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:48:50 GMT

Finally all Australian students will have the satisfaction of receiving free Microsoft tools which include:

Visual Studio 2008 Professional
Visual Studio 2005 Professional
Windows Server 2003 Standard
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
Expression Studio
XNA Game Studio 2.0 + Creators Club

It will officially be available early September, around the same time the Australian Tech. Ed 2008 is on!

Dream Build Play 2008

PaulM — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:18:01 GMT

Finally Microsoft launched the new Dream Build Play competition! This time around you are given the opportunity to work in a group of up to 7 people or by yourself to produce an exciting game for the Xbox 360 using XNA studio 2.0.

A total of $75,000 is up for grabs which will be shared amongst the top four finalists. They will also be have the chance to receive an Xbox Live publishing contract.

Good luck to all who enter!

Gears of War 2 Trailer!

PaulM — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:13:44 GMT

Gametrailers.com recently released the new trailer for Gears of War 2, finally got around to watching it and it is quite impressive!

GameTrailers.com: Gears of War 2 Trailer

Can't wait for this too come out!

UAC Designed to annoy users

PaulM — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:02:12 GMT

I found this article on Channel Web quite interesting, i understand their reasoning behind it.

Qoute:
Microsoft not only wanted to get users to stop running as administrators, which exacerbates the effects of attacks, but also wanted to convince ISVs to stop building applications that require administrative privileges to install and run, Cross explained.

Afk - sorry!

PaulM — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:45:36 GMT

Hi GWB readers,
I have been away from geekswithblogs.net for the past month, infact from all of my projects as well i have been extremely busy with my degree and had quite a number of large assignments to complete before the end of this semester. Anyway with my new found interest in the XNA framework and 3D modelling i will be turning my interests to XNA ! I have one project underway which is a 2D multiplayer tank game with a short and sweet single player mode version!

Anyway just to note i would like to thank the people who comment on my posts about fixing the MRVGINA.dll issues if it weren't for you guys i would have never remebered that i had this blog going still. So with everything calming down now (atleast for a little while) at university i hope to blog a little more and post updates at my games and experiences with my projects.

Regards Paul.

Microsoft DreamSpark!

PaulM — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:48:11 GMT

Looks like Microsoft are looking at helping out programmers who are registered members of universities or other learning faculties. They are providing all student programmers (in specific countries, more to be added) with the chance to download professional level development tools for free

Here is the link: downloads.channel8.msdn.com

I just hope they add Australia real soon!

VS Startup

PaulM — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:19:14 GMT

In light of a recent post by Tim Murphy here, i thought it might be a good time to tell those of you that don't see the RSS feed how to fix that problem

Simple follow the steps provided below:

Go to the tool menu
Select Options
Expand the "Environment" node
Click on the "Startup" node
Set the At Startup property to "Show Start Page"

Thats it and every time from now on you will be shown the news (RSS) of MSDN! It might also be good to note that if you ever have loading problems or it seems to hang every now and again it might be best to have it not show the MSDN news.

ExpertRating - XHTML 1.0

PaulM — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:57:04 GMT

I finally decided to attempt a test on at ExpertRating and my first one was the XHTML certificate. This was immediately after my first lesson with XHTML at university today. Apart from today i had only browsed over XHTML casually when messing around with ASP.NET. So i was pretty proud of myself.

Here is my transcript with overall results. I plan on taking it again when i have time and become more fluent in it, as you can see its Tables and Forms that i need to get a grip on!