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CamlDesigner–The new SharePoint Query Designer

Ricardo Calejo — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:21:00 GMT

These days I’ve been using the new Caml Query Builder – CamlDesigner that is around the block and in my opinion seems very competent and speeds up the sharepoint delevopment. For everyone who knows… the CAML when gets bigger and complicated, it is a pain Read More......(read more)

SharePoint–The workflow ellipsis error.. again!

Ricardo Calejo — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:03:00 GMT

Well complementing this post about the Visual Studio SharePoint error: Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’: Unable to locate the workflow’s association data. To restore the association data to the workflow, restart the workflow settings Read More......(read more)

BCS Webpart Error… Oh no, that trottling thing again!

Ricardo Calejo — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:56:45 GMT

So you been working aroung BCS, and tried every step on tutorials (good ones, like these)… but in the end, data is not presented to you and you receive error on the items display. Ok, you have to increase your throttle maximum… how? Here it Read More......(read more)

Bamboo stands

João Ramos — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:15:47 GMT

As a big fan of handmade wooden stuff, I recently purchased two bamboo stands from New York based designer Ricardo Martinez on Etsy, one for my phone and iPod, and other for my new iPad. It’s incredible how solid and beautiful these two little things Read More......(read more)

Xbox 360 Controller Input in C++ via XInput

David Amador — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:41:27 GMT

So you have that Xbox360 controller laying around and want to connect it to your game? On XNA this is an out of the box option but if you’re using C++ you have a bit more work to do first. First of all, you will need the DirecX 9.0+ sdk. First the Read More......(read more)

Mobile emulators & simulators

João Ramos — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:09:05 GMT

If you’re tired of testing your responsive designs on your browser(s), you should consider getting an official mobile browser emulator or simulator for your desktop. There’s nothing like testing your smaller resolutions on real mobile rendering Read More......(read more)

Lighthouse

João Ramos — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:47:09 GMT

Ever since I can remember I wanted to live in a lighthouse. After living in Galicia for a year I had the chance to go on a car trip with my best friend around Read More......(read more)

RWD

João Ramos — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:34:46 GMT

Responsive Web Design (RWD) has definitively changed the way how people design for the web, and raised a new way of thinking about content and layout. To properly test it in-browser, people are coming up with some rather interesting tools, such as Responsivility Read More......(read more)

LESS Elements

João Ramos — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:24:34 GMT

If you haven’t started using CSS pre-processors like LESS or SASS, you’re probably unaware of how awesome and maintainable your CSS can get. In a nutshell, it enables variables and functions within your CSS, selector nesting, and basic operations Read More......(read more)

***, yeah!

João Ramos — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:12:22 GMT

There is a place in Austria called Fucking. It has around 104 inhabitants and is only 4km east of the german border. Tourists have been caught having sex in front of road signs (gorgeous typeface!) during summer, probably right after having a sip of their Read More......(read more)

Fourteeno

João Ramos — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:11:51 GMT

Fourteeno is a custom flavor of Joni Jorkpi‘s fixed-width Frameless grid that I’ve used in a few projects before diving into fluid grids. It’s properly set in layouts of 4, 6, 8, 12 and 14 columns (hence Fourteeno), it comes with a useful Read More......(read more)

Screenies time…

David Amador — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:36:35 GMT

We finally released some screenshots of Dary’s Legend. Lately I’ve been working on the light system and fog of war for the game, it’s visible on the images. Here’s the official post but I’ve placed the images here for convenience Read More......(read more)

New game…

David Amador — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:11:43 GMT

New game, called Dary’s Legend, a roguelike, dungeon crawling type. This is what I’ve been working on lately, and … well not much more to say. I’ll try and do posts with relevant stuff regarding the development of the game Read More......(read more)

Where do you like games to store their save data?

David Amador — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:57:47 GMT

Quick question. I’m trying to decide where my next game should store their save files so I decided to make a poll. Personally I think that C:/Users/$USER$/AppData/Local/ is a total idiotic thing. Starting on Windows Vista there’s a pre-created Read More......(read more)

PizzaNight 2012

ZoomIn — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:56:00 GMT

A próxima edição do evento PizzaNight é já no dia 9 de Março de 2012 por isso não faltes e vem comer pizza!

Se quiseres fazer um jogo e apresentar, ou simplesmente queres vir assistir manda um mail para t-andma@microsoft.com com o teu desejo de participar :)

Para mais informações clica ai no link em cima que diz XNA Pizza Night ou visita a pagina do Facebook.

Contamos contigo!

Some thoughts about indie dev

David Amador — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:10:19 GMT

1 – You either are, or you aren’t. People can go and , “I’m an aspiring indie game developer”. You are either doing games or not, period. If you are starting in development with your own money then you are one. People tend Read More......(read more)

趣味はスーパー銭湯

バンドマンの内緒話①＝包茎編＝ — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:22:13 GMT

冬になってなんとなく地方でも仕事が少ない。出張がないのは楽で良いのだけど、出張に行ったら必ず地元の飲み屋に行って、地方を堪能して帰ってきていたのに、それが出来ないとなるとそれはそれで寂しいもんだ。そこで、最近こっちで仕事した後で何か楽しみを見つけよう！と思って見つけたものが…。スーパー銭湯だ！！広い温泉＋飲み食い出来る食事処やちょっと寝たり出来る休憩所があるので、仕事のあと食事＋温泉に入れて結構快適なんだよな～。サウナ入って、あとはマッサージ所でマッサージ。これが結構気持ちいいんだ。ホント Read More......(read more)

母から聞いた節約生活、あとは有言実行！

バンドマンの内緒話①＝包茎編＝ — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:47:05 GMT

音楽雑誌の編集をしているオレ、月に何度かある地方ライブの取材が楽しみです。ときには近場での取材もあり、それはそれで価値あるものですが、地方へ出掛ける楽しみは、地元の人と触れ合えることです。また、ご当地グルメを食することで、自分の知識欲と食欲を満たすこともでき、それが、自分の引き出しを増やせることにもつながるからです。もちろん、ご当地グルメで得た情報は、きちんとコラム記事にしたり、同僚に提供したりしていますよ。どの業界でも経費節減は大切なことですから。こういう考え方は、家庭の節約生活にもつながると思います Read More......(read more)

Engine, video player and tools, tools tools!

David Amador — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:56:20 GMT

So these past 2 weeks I’ve been adding some “bits and bytes” to the engine. Taking a rest between some more complex game mechanisms I decided to start doing a video player. After a bit research I decided to choose theora, but a bit septic Read More......(read more)

How to Restore the Windows 7 MBR (Master Boot Record)

David Amador — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:43:50 GMT

So I had this crisis where the MBR got broken and Windows would not boot. This can happens for many reasons, maybe you tried to dual boot your PC and something went wrong. Anyway where’s a quick tip on how to fix it (You need a Windows 7 DVD of Read More......(read more)

Rather Security than Features !

Chaves — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:51:00 GMT

Um excelente artigo que chega via a newsletter de segurança da Microsoft, uma leitura mais do que recomendada nos dias de hoje. http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2002/07-18twc.mspx Numa altura em que a web viu uma das suas maiores Read More......(read more)

Find/Replace in Visual Studio using regular expressions

David Amador — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:27:55 GMT

Usually Find/Replace gets the job done for what I need, although sometimes using “Replace All” can break more stuff that it fixes. But today I had this function I wanted to get rid of and simple change it with a public variable. So I had something Read More......(read more)

[Quickies] Why can’t I move (certain) applications to the SD card?

Tiago's Tech Blog — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:56:59 GMT

Following up on the previous "quickies" format, I decided to answer a question that goes unanswered through a quick Google search. This quickie has to do with the Android OS platform. Question: Why can't I move certain applications to the Read More......(read more)

[Quickies] Galaxy S2 MIUI 1.12.30 Camera Force Closes

Tiago's Tech Blog — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:29:39 GMT

I've tagged this post as a "quickie" as I just want to share the solution to a problem I've been having with my recently bought Galaxy S2. This solution was found indirectly and from my extensive search through the Internet, I haven't Read More......(read more)

post mortem of another year

David Amador — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:43:43 GMT

Another year has gone by, not quite what I was expecting developing wise, like putting another game out there, but things never turned out as planned. Still over the last year I’ve gradually saw out little Different Pixel brand reaching more and Read More......(read more)