October 2004 - Posts

• My continued adventure in 3D game programming

  I successfully got through Tom Millers first 7 chapters of the “ Managed DirectX 9: Graphics and Game Programming“ book. I found that I had to piece together a lot of missing information. Tom often provides you with examples and best practices Read More... Posted Thursday, October 28, 2004 1:23 PM by kwells | 1 Comments Filed under: Managed DirectX

• Steganography

  Steganography - The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography. I recently came across a group of articles that discuss Steganography by Corinna John, age 24, from Germany. I Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:16 AM by kwells | 3 Comments Filed under: Misc

• DNZone Poll Favorite Language

  Check out the latest poll results concerning favorite .NET language. Very interesting results. I was pleasantly surprised to see that C# is winning. Why do I like C# better? Because VB.NET is tooo verbose and the syntax is not good for an object oriented Read More... Posted Monday, October 18, 2004 5:23 PM by kwells | 2 Comments Filed under: Misc

• The Future of Microsoft

  I predict that in 10 years, open source software will be the dominant product line used by major corporations around the world. The reason I believe this is because the move by corporations to continue to cut cost, more specifically, IT cost, will draw Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:00 AM by kwells | 2 Comments Filed under: Misc

• World Chess Championship

  Whoa! What have I been doing lately! I have been missing the “World Chess Championship”! Grandmasters Kramnik and Leko are fighting for the title. If you are interested, you can observe the game at chessclub.com. Unfortunately, Tony Rook has Read More... Posted Friday, October 08, 2004 12:47 PM by kwells | 0 Comments Filed under: Misc

• 3D Programming Today's Comment

  Ok, what I have discovered so far is that 3D graphics programming is, in very simple terms, the manipulation of rendered graphic objects along an axis or multiple axes within a controlled viewing area. When thinking about 3D graphics programming, think Read More... Posted Friday, October 08, 2004 12:33 PM by kwells | 0 Comments Filed under: Managed DirectX

• 3D Gaming using MDX: The Journey Begins

  In my quest to learn 3D game programming, I came across a very informative article titled “Game Engine Anatomy 101” by Jake Simpson. This article is divided into a ten part series that discusses the current state of gaming engines and how Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:14 PM by kwells | 0 Comments Filed under: Managed DirectX

• R2D.exe and WebServiceStudio2.0 Web Service Tools

  Microsoft uses the XML Document format as its standard when defining its Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file. Well, it turned out that my company implemented an Enterprise Application Interface using Java and their WSDL was in the Java based Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 1:46 PM by kwells | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET

• Welcome To The Double Exposure Blog

  The primary purpose of this blog is to discuss issues related to application development using the .NET Framework. In the beginning, my focus will be primarily concerned with ASP.NET web developement and the developement of games using the Managed DirectX(MDX) Read More... Posted Monday, October 04, 2004 6:31 PM by kwells | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET, Managed DirectX