I’ve been working on a free-to-play MMO which has been “officially” live since last April, and things have been going well – a steady growth of players; the game itself has been well-received, and all the important graphs are “up and to the right.” Part of my job involves detecting problems before they become serious […]
Read MoreOn the MMO I’m working on, we do quite a bit of service monitoring via jetty. Things like having a URL that reports back version information for a component, or a page full of statistics showing recent activity, or a way to trigger a self-check in a component to determine if the component is sane […]
Read MoreASP.NET MVC 2 has been released (yay). One of the pieces I like about it is in the MvcFutures assembly. MvcFutures is where the MVC team puts code for features that may or may not make it into a future version of the MVC framework – undocumented, somewhat risky, but hey you get all the […]
Read MoreGiven: One Windows Service, written in C#, using SQL Reporting Services via the SSRS web services. MyApp.Service waits for work requests to come in, and when it finds them it uses SSRS to generate some PDFs (among a bunch of other stuff). The Windows Service code is in one project, “myapp.service,” and the code that […]
Read MoreAfter running into animation problems in Silverlight 3 and 4, I?m implementing my user interface using full blown WPF. This Pan and Zoom code works great, with a minor tweak and one issue: I need to control the allowable zoom ranges, and I don?t want the user to be able to pan the image ?right […]
Read MoreLately I’ve been working on an AI project, parts of which might get turned into a Boise Code Camp presentation, hopefully. Rather than just debugging via Console.Write, I want to see what the AI is up to using one of those new-fangled Graphical User Interfaces that I’ve heard so much about, specifically via Silverlight. A […]
Read MoreI’ve been working on a project that involves computer vision algorithms. Fortunately, really smart people have done all the hard work and produced OpenCV. Even better, there are a set of Python bindings, which makes a big difference because my project is written using Python. The bad news: I’m writing this on a Windows box […]
Read MoreA while back, the company I work for experimented with setting up a Windows Server Update Service (WSUS). The idea is that you have one server that goes out and downloads all of the hotfixes, service packs, and so on for your network – then each of your client machines goes directly to the local […]
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