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Tuesday, November 09, 2004 6:21 AM

Publishing: Good reviews, bad reviews, and hurting oooh so many feelings.

Well, apparently you aren't allowed to have an opinion on the web anymore. I got flamed by an author after posting a personal review of his book. It wasn't an objective review, I didn't mark it as such, but I wasted a good deal of my life between reading...
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Friday, November 05, 2004 3:12 PM

Language parsing and compiler design doesn't have to be hard, but boy this book really sucks!

How'd you like that for an opening title? Did it grab your attention? Hell, your reading this far so I guess it did. The book I'm focusing on here is Build Your Own .NET Language and Compiler and please, don't click the link and then go buy it. I don...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:57 AM

Game Development: Book resources for users interested in more in-depth world generation discussion.

I think every book kind of covers world generation in an off-handed manner. There are very few books actually focused on the process of world generation alone. By world generation, I don't just mean the creation of terrain, and I'm instead talking about...
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Saturday, October 09, 2004 5:40 PM

Doing a comprehensive review on the "Beginning .NET Game Programming in VB .NET", need your feedback.

I'm truly doing a comprehensive review so it'll be a few more days before the actual review is out. What I'm looking for are a couple of testimonials about the previous version that was shipped in C#. These can be positive or negative, and I really want...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:35 AM

Readership, Blogging, Trends and statistically smoothing the samplings...

I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple of messages go by where the author's of various blogs were worried about a decline in readership. There was one yesterday that particularly caught my eye because the immediate response from the author was, "What are...
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Friday, July 23, 2004 11:43 PM

Soooo much to do sooo little time. Some goodies while you wait for the real stuff...

Well, I figured I'd throw my presentation decks up in a zip format so that people could download those without having to view the entire web-cast. I'm not sure if just the decks are available over the MSDN website, and since I couldn't find the link,...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 2:05 AM

I think my book is being called C# Express After Hours or something like that, how fitting...

I just checked my email for the first time today at 1:30 am (technically Tuesday I guess) and saw an email subject with a possible name for my book. At least the subject line appears to be what everyone else is calling it, even if I didn't know much about...
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 2:50 PM

Visual C# Express 2005: Creating a Poker Application, Source Download

Answering a couple of user questions for persistence: How do you test during the development of an application like Poker? Well, I'd say that the design and whiteboard sketches that I'm going to have in my book really help limit the amount of testing...
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:35 AM

Visual C# Express 2005: Creating a Poker Application, 1PM (PDT) Thursday, That's Today!

If you want to show up here you go http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=31156 . Now, to give a short disclaimer, I actually bought a head-set this time, so no more crook-necking the entire time. I'm also ten times more prepared for what is going to...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:17 PM

C# 2005 Express WebCast 1 of 2 is now complete!

Before: Less than 12 hours to the RTC Building Webcast... After: How can something be both harder and easier than you would expect at the same time? Well, that is how I feel right about now. After completing my first web-cast, I realize that the things...
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