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ViNull Tweets for Monday, November 09, 2009

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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wbm - Waiting on @vinull for lunch 11:55 AM Nov 9, 2009

wbm - I'm telling @vinull that he needs to ship his xna ebook to @wrox. 12:32 PM Nov 9, 2009

ViNull - . @inanutshellus you can have multiple "send as" email addresses from gmail - under settings / accounts and import 1:59 PM Nov 9, 2009

inanutshellus - @ViNull when u send an email using it the recipient sees "From mygmailacct@gmail.com on behalf of myreal@emailaddr.com". Unprofessional IMO. 2:18 PM Nov 9, 2009

inanutshellus - @ViNull and by "unprofessional" i mean it makes me look unprofessional, not them. they even recommend that u use your own smtp if yer a biz. 2:22 PM Nov 9, 2009

ViNull - . @inanutshellus you get that even if you setup a send as alias? I have 4 send as alias's in gmail and never had that show up 2:33 PM Nov 9, 2009

TMA - @ViNull @inanutshellus It's the way aliasing has always worked for me. They recently allowed a workaround using 3rd party SMTP servers tho. 2:52 PM Nov 9, 2009

nathanblevins - @inanutshellus @tma @ViNull I *love* the google apps approach and I have never had that issue. All my email is from the appropriate domain. 3:39 PM Nov 9, 2009

ViNull - Reviewing the book draft (hi @wrox!) "It was the best of code, it was the worst of code." #XNA 7:16 PM Nov 9, 2009

ViNull - @The_Zman with that new policy, you may want to avoid Steam... 7:54 PM Nov 9, 2009

ViNull - "Call me ISROT" #xna 7:56 PM Nov 9, 2009

The_Zman - @ViNull : Yes I hear 'bits' are expensive there 7:58 PM Nov 9, 2009

ViNull - The movie "Ninja Assissan" should be titled "Ninja Assissan in Black with a Sword" to clear up possible confusion with other Ninjas 8:53 PM Nov 9, 2009

ViNull.com: vipin in ASP.NET: Totaling a GridView part 2, the SQL

vipin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:11:19 GMT

calculate value in running mode

ViNull.com: Mario in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

Mario — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:26:43 GMT

Hi, i wish i had the chance to play your game, i won one of the codes in Emuholic's blog unfortunatelly indie games are not available for mexico. (sad face) but watching the video of the game i have to agree, is to early to give up, focus in the positive and learn from it, i am sure the game could be improved and updated, if any i would recommend is adding better interface graphics, as the rock textures and fonts wasnt that good, i say keep working on it and dont give up!

ViNull Tweets for Sunday, November 08, 2009

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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ViNull - . @fallenrogue My only problem with Mass Effect is after the 3rd play through the plot is predictable 10:48 AM Nov 8, 2009

fallenrogue - @ViNull lol, touche. :) 10:57 AM Nov 8, 2009

ViNull - Looking at Steam and Dragon Age, can someone explain why I would want to play $10 more for a download over a retail box w/disc? 11:25 AM Nov 8, 2009

alanbarber - @ViNull boxes are fun to collect? 11:28 AM Nov 8, 2009

ViNull - . @AlanBarber lol, that doesn't help Steams $10 "awesome charge" 11:50 AM Nov 8, 2009

alanbarber - @ViNull whoops i read that wrong thought you said 10 more for box not 10 more for download... yea 10 for download is lame 11:58 AM Nov 8, 2009

ViNull - @inanutshellus Not only follow, but I added you to a list! 1:27 PM Nov 8, 2009

ViNull - If I wanted to I could turn matches to gold, I could smoke, drink, swear, and I would never grow old... 3:27 PM Nov 8, 2009

ViNull - Wrapped up the last demo for the XNA 3D Wrox Blox (ebook) - longer than I wanted, but I don't feel there is anything I can cut #xna 3:49 PM Nov 8, 2009

ViNull - . @wbm Remember, Steve Ballmer thinks the iPhone is "niche" http://tinyurl.com/y9kn8t6 7:18 PM Nov 8, 2009

ViNull Tweets for Saturday, November 07, 2009

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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ViNull - RT: @emuholic Got a nice twist on the IncaBlocks code giveaway later! Oldskool game protection with "please enter letter found on para 4" :) 9:11 AM Nov 7, 2009

ViNull Tweets for Friday, November 06, 2009

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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nathanblevins - .@vinull @steveandrews I didn't know they had a Ball at #Codestock. http://bit.ly/4cjLSU You all look lovely (photo via @DavidGiard) 8:27 AM Nov 6, 2009

ViNull - After playing DJ Hero I now want to drop $1K on DJ equipment and don't know the first thing about real DJ equipment 10:53 AM Nov 6, 2009

danwahlin - @ViNull: Haven't tried DJ Hero yet but the kids played at Best Buy and it's the #1 thing they want for Christmas. Looks pretty fun. 10:56 AM Nov 6, 2009

dylanwolf - @ViNull The first step is realizing you have a problem overbuying audio equipment... the second step is not giving in anyway. :) 10:57 AM Nov 6, 2009

archidraca - Played alot of #Fable2 today. @ViNull is playing #DJhero right now or I'd still be playing it. 8:44 PM Nov 6, 2009

ViNull Tweets for Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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ViNull - I won 7 achievements in DJ Hero for 205 trueachievement points 4:14 AM Nov 4, 2009

ViNull - Go check out Xbox Indies on Facebook! http://apps.facebook.com/xboxindies/ #xna #xblig (thanks @nickgravelyn for making this happen!) 9:13 AM Nov 4, 2009

ViNull - I read this and wonder why Random wouldn't be thread safe in .Net - oversight? http://tinyurl.com/yl7epqm 10:27 AM Nov 4, 2009

RussM - @ViNull Here are some details about the Random thing: http://tinyurl.com/bj38hz (Instances all rely on calls to the system timer). 10:43 AM Nov 4, 2009

ViNull - Trying to decide if this is a fail or a win - http://bit.ly/Cm0Lm 10:53 AM Nov 4, 2009

dylanwolf - @ViNull That can't be real. Or at least, it had to be some employee screwing off. 10:55 AM Nov 4, 2009

nathanblevins - @ViNull Their prices are so low, that its a sin! 10:57 AM Nov 4, 2009

tswaterman - @ViNull that would be a win. but only if they're not serious about it. (as seen my last trip South: "Triangle Waffle -- Jesus Saves") 11:04 AM Nov 4, 2009

WhimSQL - @ViNull @stuarta is sporting his #codestock clown shirt at #sqlpass :D 12:12 PM Nov 4, 2009

wbm - At lunch with @nathanblevins and @vinull 12:48 PM Nov 4, 2009

wbm - Listening to @vinull whine about twitter lists. 12:49 PM Nov 4, 2009

ViNull - RT: @whimsql: @ViNull @stuarta is sporting his #codestock clown shirt at #sqlpass :D 1:32 PM Nov 4, 2009

ViNull - Backspace key gets stuck #WhatAreBadThingsThatCanHappenWhileCoding 3:03 PM Nov 4, 2009

jbkazoo - @ViNull "WHAT? you don't save after every keystroke?" #NotMeEither #WhatAreBadThingsThatCanHappenWhileCoding 4:21 PM Nov 4, 2009

ViNull - . @fallenrogue Yea, 1998 was a wild year. I hear the guy who sent that is no longer at Microsoft =). 4:35 PM Nov 4, 2009

ViNull - . @fallenrogue It's not that I think the note is right or wrong, rather there is more money and value in being open. I'm just a capitalist. 5:39 PM Nov 4, 2009

wbm - Tetherig for Droid coming next year from Verizon. @Vinull should be happy http://bit.ly/3fCrij 7:51 PM Nov 4, 2009

ViNull Tweets for Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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ViNull - Try as I might, I just cannot take facebook seriously 8:50 AM Nov 3, 2009

alanstevens - @ViNull Facebook is such a jumble. I miss replies all the time. The only advantage is that so many people are on there to connect with. 8:52 AM Nov 3, 2009

dylanwolf - @ViNull I can take it seriously if I ignore most of the apps and fan pages and groups.... OK, point taken, but at least it's not MySpace. 9:06 AM Nov 3, 2009

ViNull - I hit L, Shift O to the quote, and then dollar... 9:32 AM Nov 3, 2009

TMA - .@ViNull If you know the dir of the Nerdcore rhyme you holla! 9:39 AM Nov 3, 2009

TMA - Thanks to @vinull, I'm stuck listening to MC Frontalot. This'll probably last all day. 9:48 AM Nov 3, 2009

ViNull - RT: @emuholic We have three codes to giveaway in our weekly competition. This week is for IncaBlocks, details at http://bit.ly/MgrBI #xblig 10:32 AM Nov 3, 2009

ViNull - . @alanstevens Introducing Blend on WPF day 1 is bad. That would be like starting out in ASP.NET MVC using Dreamweaver 10:49 AM Nov 3, 2009

ViNull - . @alanstevens The real use a developer has for Blend is quickly fixing the implementation of the stock controls 10:50 AM Nov 3, 2009

wbm - @vinull haz a new Blackberry Curve 11:44 AM Nov 3, 2009

wbm - Back from lunch with @vinull and his new blackberry. 1:00 PM Nov 3, 2009

ViNull - @whimsql when you get back will you switch us all over to mssql so we can use this cool stuff? 1:09 PM Nov 3, 2009

WhimSQL - @ViNull I'd love to. :D 1:20 PM Nov 3, 2009

ViNull - So, someone on a list I create replies to me and it doesn't show up? #fixreplies already twitter, this is just sad 1:31 PM Nov 3, 2009

ViNull - Write it, cut it, paste it, save it, load it, check it, quick rewrite it... 2:24 PM Nov 3, 2009

ViNull - I've been coding in the dark, looking for the error. Is there something more than what I've had Disposed? 2:52 PM Nov 3, 2009

jrgarcia - @ViNull Ha! I've never thought of putting coding and Hoobastank together. 2:53 PM Nov 3, 2009

dylanwolf - @ViNull Are you rewriting lyrics to be about coding today? 3:05 PM Nov 3, 2009

Featherforce - @ViNull mike, got a recommendation for a good book or site to learn WPF? 4:29 PM Nov 3, 2009

ViNull - . @Featherforce My choice on a WPF book is Petzold's "Applications = Code + Markup" 7:06 PM Nov 3, 2009

Featherforce - @ViNull excellent, thank you! 8:18 PM Nov 3, 2009

ViNull Tweets for Monday, November 02, 2009

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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ViNull - I won 8 achievements in Rock Band for 332 trueachievement points 12:19 AM Nov 2, 2009

SteveAndrews - @ViNull What's a bad morning? 3:23 AM Nov 2, 2009

ViNull - . @SteveAndrews No coffee and only unfrosted pop-tarts (why do those even exist?!) 8:33 AM Nov 2, 2009

babystarr - officially old. kids not knowing who ian brown is and asking at the merch stall whats "vinull" (vinyl). 9:45 AM Nov 2, 2009

ViNull - . @alanstevens I've gone to plaid - DDR3 12GB - I plan to offer my system as a secondary NASA mission control node if needed 11:47 AM Nov 2, 2009

archidraca - .@ViNull's silly old cat had managed to trap himself in Hannah's room again. He tried to open the door himself and only cried out in defeat. 12:22 PM Nov 2, 2009

alanstevens - @ViNull I think I can be satisfied with ludicrous speed. 1:00 PM Nov 2, 2009

ViNull - Watching Heroes in realtime since playon has Hulu sync issues. I've fallen so low... 8:04 PM Nov 2, 2009

ViNull - . @jenniferbidwell when they told you it was "grass" they meant something other than the green stuff on the lawn 9:48 PM Nov 2, 2009

Flickr: Comment about The Desk That Mike Built

nobody@flickr.com (chrisanimelo444) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:22:43 -0800

chrisanimelo444 has posted a comment:

Awesome photo! I have it on my article How to Stay Motivated to Write Articles and have the picture linking back to this page.
www.ehow.com/how_5599242_stay-motivated-write-articles.html

Thanks!

ViNull Tweets for Sunday, November 01, 2009

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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ViNull - Great review of IncaBlock on Emuholic's Game Blog - http://bit.ly/2AFTyY #xblig #xna 9:44 AM Nov 1, 2009

ViNull - Registered for Twitter updates on trueachievements.com 10:28 AM Nov 1, 2009

ViNull - Libraries in Windows 7 are nice, however they don't work in file dialogs (sub folders are not shown if you have a "save/open as type" box) 12:23 PM Nov 1, 2009

ViNull - RT: @feelthefunc: New Podcast "The Func's Destitute" with special guest @nathanblevins - http://tinyurl.com/ygpzsvd 1:18 PM Nov 1, 2009

ViNull - My 6yr old daughter has built internment camps in Kingdom for Keflings (one for males, one for females) #Gulag4Keflings 1:32 PM Nov 1, 2009

ViNull - @SteveAndrews I had Coffee and chocolate pop-tarts for breakfast - and I consider that a good morning! 2:44 PM Nov 1, 2009

ViNull - Twitter lists are nice, but still have the @reply bug #fixreplies 3:06 PM Nov 1, 2009

CoderDennis - RT @ViNull Twitter lists are nice, but still have the @reply bug #fixreplies 3:16 PM Nov 1, 2009

ViNull Tweets for Saturday, October 31, 2009

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:00:00 GMT

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ViNull - One upside to publishing an XNA game - it makes the time spent vs money earned on writing a book look great by comparison! #xblig 7:29 PM Oct 31, 2009

ViNull.com: Mike in .Net routine file IO best practice

Mike — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:29:07 GMT

You've mixed up the Serialize and DeSerialize method - the Serialize method uses the flag FileMode.Create, which will create a new file and truncate an existing one.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filemode.aspx

ViNull.com: jovan tomasevic in .Net routine file IO best practice

jovan tomasevic — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:58:54 GMT

this part
using (FileStream fs = File.Open(FileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read)) {
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(fs);
data = reader.ReadToEnd();
fs.Close();
success = true;
break;
i try like this

FileStream str = new FileStream(path, FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
str.Flush();

ser.Serialize(str, doc, namespaces);
str.Flush();
str.Close();

but it's not good, files may be corrupted after serialization if new file is shorter...

anyway your code was very useful for me.
thanks for solution Mike

ViNull.com: John Hamm in Getting a Recursive FTP File List in .Net

John Hamm — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:00:20 GMT

Perfect! Was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

ViNull.com: Adam Byram in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

Adam Byram — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:11:00 GMT

So are you guys totally giving up on the game? The indie marketplace on the 360 at least gives you the ability to market the game yourself since you can link to the game on live.xbox.com (and the user can purchase it right there without having to be on the Xbox). You should at least try a little marketing before giving up on the game altogether. I've been thinking about working on an XNA game, but there are too many stories like this...the Apple App Store still seems like it's the best place to be. You may want to consider porting IncaBlocks to iPhone/iPod touch though...even without marketing, my company's latest game/toy is still making a decent amount. Not anywhere near enough to live on certainly, but enough to keep working on updates and additional games.

ViNull.com: Eric in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

Eric — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:51:44 GMT

Got PMP94-KKYYG-YRRHQ-3J7YH-H3YQ6.

Don't think I've tried your game before, hopefully it's less horrible than this article makes it seem. Thanks.

ViNull.com: Doug in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

Doug — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:39:09 GMT

I used F7GYX-4WKJQ-GPQHM-DF8TF-TYWYD. Thanx.

ViNull.com: Charlie in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

Charlie — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:18:27 GMT

You're totally being too hard on yourself. Learn from it, but you might as well focus on the positive. You did make money and you learned in the process.

ViNull.com: Dylan Wolf in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

Dylan Wolf — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:39:21 GMT

OK, yeah... I went back and skimmed the description, and didn't notice it because I was looking in the part around "1-4 players." :)

ViNull.com: Michael C. Neel in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

Michael C. Neel — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:35:50 GMT

"1-4 players" and "Play with or without computer players." It is in the description, and you cannot start a game without having at least 2 players (the second being human or computer).

ViNull.com: Dylan Wolf in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

Dylan Wolf — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:26:27 GMT

You can add AI players by pressing X rather than A when you're adding players to the game. It's probably something we should have put in the description, now that you mention it.

ViNull.com: Silvermax (developer of Kaotik Puzzle) in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

Silvermax (developer of Kaotik Puzzle) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:21:25 GMT

I think if the game had A.I. it would be more successful. Multiplayer-only games don't sell very sell. "Include single player features in your multi player game"

Thanks for the codes.

ViNull.com: G. Andrew Duthie in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

G. Andrew Duthie — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:16:12 GMT

Used #14. Thank you for sharing!

ViNull.com: Kevin Griffin in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

Kevin Griffin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:29:21 GMT

Thanks a lot. I used code #13. Sorry to hear about the poor turnover rate. The whole indie games system needs to be rethought out I think. I've been thinking about writing a game or two for it, but I think I'd rather wait to see if the system will be overhauled.

Good luck with future games.

ViNull.com: AzBat360 in R.I.P. IncaBlocks: 10/14/2009 – 10/24/2009

AzBat360 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:21:18 GMT

Thanks! I used code #7. I'll definitely check it out & rate it accordingly. If it's good I'll let people know on Twitter. :)

ViNull.com: Mr. R in ASP.NET SEO Interview on Polymorphic Podcast

Mr. R — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:37:28 GMT

Quite nice, here is another series of interview QAs
http://jack-fx.com/csharp/post/aspnet-interview-questions-and-answers-csharp.htm
http://jack-fx.com/csharp/post/38-interview-questions-and-answers-of-aspnet.htm
http://jack-fx.com/csharp/post/c-interview-questions-and-answers.htm

ViNull.com: Michael C. Neel in WPF: Threading basics in WPF

Michael C. Neel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:59:14 GMT

There is so much fail in the above comment, I'll just link to the documentation on asynchronous delegates:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/22t547yb.aspx

ViNull.com: Arif in WPF: Threading basics in WPF

Arif — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:13:46 GMT

I guess U shud look at some basic concepts of Invoke and BeginInvoke.
Check description of these function please. Both of these functions run on the Main UI thread itself. None will span another thread.
Now wat is the difference: The beginInvoke creates a function pointer and places the call on the CPU execute Queue and the process immediate lines after it.When the main thread is free, the cpu picks the function pointer of this beginInvoke and executes the function.
Invoke, calls the function immediately.

U have included System.windows.Threading but where have U used it.
My dear fellow developer, Threading is a deep and complicated concept, please dont confuse ppl

Devlicio.us: re: IncaBlocks Released, Thanks AgileZen and Kanban!

Michael C. Neel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:02:12 GMT

Just XNA and C# - there are some game frameworks out there, but we choose to keep things simple. Looking forward to posting more on XNA!