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Transforming a blog

June 26, 2021

The first step in fixing a problem is realising you have a problem and getting off your old blog.

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And so the journey continues

June 17, 2021

A personal journey breaking with the past and on to a brighter future.

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Open Live Writer is a GO!!

December 09, 2015

Thought I would give this a go as some cunning bods have taking the decade old code of the awesome Windows Live Writer (WLW for short) and open sourced it, c...

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MonoGaming all the things at Future Decoded!

November 06, 2015

One of the biggest Tech Conferences in the UK is returning this year, refocused, re-targeted and yet still as big as ever. Compressed down to just two days (...

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VSCode and Unity take another bold step forward

September 10, 2015

Today (September 10th) marks another notch in the VS Code journey to become THE lightweight multi-platform editor, the one editor to rule them all.

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Having fun in space with trails

December 30, 2014

At the time of writing this, I am nearing the end of my second journey in to book writing. (in a very short period of time) In response to a survey I put out...

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My State of the Union (odd coming from a Brit)

January 28, 2014

I’ve been very quite of late, especially on my Blog. Now this isn’t because of anything sinister or just laziness, I’ve just been really REALLY busy.

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PacktPub - Columbus day 50% off deal

October 15, 2013

I’m not usually one for cross promoting sales or offers from vendor sites, there are better ways to do it.

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Please be patent while we sort out the Holiday Cheer

December 30, 2012

Things have been quite recently what with the Holidays and all. In fact WordPress even gave me an early present when I updated they kindly reset my entire s...

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The long road back

June 29, 2012

Since I am a glutton for punishment, before and shortly after working on the WP7 app for work, I got involved with a talented developer in Auz called Chris H...

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The long road out

June 29, 2012

As I’ve been quite a few weeks now I thought it was about time I let the cat out of the back of what I’ve been up to. If you are been following me on twitte...

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Woah, that is another big list

June 29, 2012

Over @ pixel prospector there is a vast (and I do mean vast) list of links to help out the aspiring indie dev in the whole marketing area. Why is this impor...

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Nebulon Now Available!

July 16, 2009

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Support Ziggyware

June 10, 2009

Ziggyware.comis one of the best sites for XNA resources and has been around since the beginning. It including Articles, Tutorials, News and even an Image of...

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Nebulon In Play Test

June 04, 2009

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Beam down my Avatar please!

May 12, 2009

Looks like some people have been watching the new Star Trek film just a few times….

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Life on the firing line

April 30, 2009

Another month another visit to India.

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I am worn out already

January 12, 2009

Well I have been busy of the last week and even more so today. I have finally setup my new blog (the old one will remain for now as I have stated) and got a...

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What is in store 2009

January 02, 2009

2008 was not a good year for me. Work ramped up to 1000% and my family got a surprising present before the year had even begun. This did not bode well for ...

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More free game goodness

September 13, 2008

Last year, I mentioned about EA releasing the fabulous (of it is time) game that started a whole raft of other like minded games (that sounded better in my h...

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New Year, New Beginnings, New Developments

January 18, 2008

Time being what it is, I seem to have less and less to play with. One of the biggest casualties has been my Game Development progress, including this blog. ...

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The Original Command & Conquer available for free

September 03, 2007
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Going back to go forward

July 31, 2007

One day I’ll get back into my regular blog cycle, but today is not that day.

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Another Busy day

February 27, 2007

Life just does not slow down Not that I want it to, really!!, but a rest every now and then would be nice.

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It is not XNA but...

January 15, 2007

Strange things come my way from time to time, this one has to be the strangest.

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Nice to have a mention

December 29, 2006

Seems I’m getting notice more and more these day’s, always good.

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Hack-1 Looking Back / Looking Forward

December 13, 2006

Postmortem from my entry in the XBOX360Homebrew contest

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Cast your Vote

December 11, 2006

In case (like ME!!) you missed the whole forum side of the XBOX360 Homebrew competition, the voting has started over here

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XNA Game Studio Express Released

December 11, 2006

Exert from Mykre’s Blog – damn he was quick, even the XNA team blog or any of the XNA team haven’t even announced it yet!!!

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The Development part of the Homebrew is now done, Hack-1 published

December 10, 2006

In case anyone’s interested, the XBOX360 Homebrew contest has now entered the voting stage and all development is complete on the competition entries.

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Are you on Target? and what is Manders Vs Machine?

December 04, 2006

If you read the previous posts on my blog, you should notice I focus mainly on concepts for game development and utter nonsense, if you want tutorials and co...

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Back with the old - XNA101.NET

November 28, 2006

Quick update

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Win a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate!

November 27, 2006

Who says you do not get nothing in Life for free – Well you can

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The XNA Trip

November 15, 2006

Well most of us at some point will casually chat to the XNA team on the forums or IRC, usually asking for answers to questions or problems, or for the more p...

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While you were sleeping

November 02, 2006

Well as I mentioned in my last post, XNA Game Studio express Beta 2 would be coming soon and lo and behold what did I find while checking my blog posts this ...

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The up-n-coming XNA beta update

October 31, 2006

For most of you in the know the XNA framework and XNA Games Studio Express are going to get a refresh to beta 2, thanks to Dave “LetsKillDave” Weller (still ...

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Let's Kill Dave! : XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2: Coming Soon!

October 27, 2006

Thanks to good old (well maybe not all that old) Dave Webber on the XNA team for this little heads up and in case you haven’t heard yet, the XNA team are go...

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Well do not say I am not a caring Guy

October 20, 2006

As life moves on it seams I get less and less done, even while using the XNAhomebrew contest to kick my rear into gear (hay that rhymes) and get Hack-1 off t...

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Knowing When to Quit

October 12, 2006

As a side note and not really about game programming, an extract from (strange place indeed) the Dilbert Blog, good old Scott Adams has some ramblings about ...

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Life - What does it mean?

October 01, 2006

I thought it was about time I put down on my own monster project which has been going on for some time now and the new direction I’m taking for a while.

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Weird Ramblings and hosts of new support

September 29, 2006

Life is taking strange turns these days, work is getting dull, I have reverted to playing an old 1993 game called “Megatraveller 2” which I never got to comp...

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Belated Writings

September 22, 2006

Not much to comment on here, not blogged for quite a while now since the purchase of my new PDA.

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If you have not Heard yet - XNA Game Studio Express beta 1 now available

August 31, 2006

Quote From Microsoft XNA Site:

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Which loop to use - an Update - and XNA Games Studio Express

August 25, 2006

XNA Games Studio Express

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Hats off to infinity Developer Ysaneya

August 23, 2006

I’d recommend anyone with some spare time on their hands to wander over to the Journal of Ysaneya.

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First Beginnings

June 20, 2006

When I first got into Game Development I thought I had a fairly rough idea of what I was getting into.

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Welcome to My Blog Site

June 20, 2006

Welcome all to my blog site.

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