My favorite questions : “Who are you?” and “Why are you still working?” !🙂

https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=111598

Another interesting post at the inquirer…

I didn’t expect any significant change to DirectX before DirectX10\WGF (Vista).
It seemed the DirectX team’s main focus in the DirectX9 updates was on tools etc. but according to this article, DirectX9 will get a significant core upgrade featuring Shader Model 4.0 support.

Sometimes it just seems to me Microsoft is trying to confuse us with its naming conventions…
Longhorn turned to Vista (I still don’t know what the heck “Vista” means…),
Avalon turned to Windows Presentation Layer,
Indigo is now Windows Communication Foundation
and more…

After a long period of inactivity the announcement finally came:

“After more than six and a half years of game development goodness, flipCode is closing its doors. We are no longer accepting submissions of articles, images, news, etc.”

Ever since I wrote this post regarding sex in video games (the GTA suit), which obviously contained the word “sex”, I’ve been getting some interesting, bizarre referrals from search engines regarding the word “sex”. I thought I’d share with you some of these search phrases:

John Carmack announced at his Quakecon 2005 keynote that the Quake 3 Arena source code would soon be released.
Today it was released (under GPL license)! And it is available here…

I just came across XAMLShare, a public wiki dedicated to providing various Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) code samples.
There aren’t many samples at the time, but hopefully the number will grow as WPF works its way into the mainstream. ..

Turns out I was born in the year of the Dog (1982).

Here’s what the chinese calendar site has to say about dogs:

Thought this was funny and worth sharing:

https://ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54

Just have to insstall, write some scripts, patch the kernel, check versions……. And you’re ready to go !🙂

Just notices on MSDN’s DirectX developers center that the Meltdown2005 presentation are available for download.

You can download them directly from this link.