EA Shutting off Customers
According to this article multiplayer servers are being shutdown for the following games: August 11, 2011 Online Service Shutdown ARMY OF TWO™ for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 ARMY OF TWO™ Demo for Xbox 360 Battlefield 2142™ Demo for PC Battlefield 2: Modern Combat™ for Xbox 360 Battlefield 2: Modern... [Read More]


Intellisense - Good, Bad, I'm The Guy With The Gun
Does Intellisense promote brain rot? That was a question recently asked at the local Chadnug meeting. My answer, yeah, sometimes. I know developers that can not write software without intellisense. They have brain rot. If you can not write code without intellisense you need to fix that. I am not... [Read More]


Visual Studio 2010 Professional Fails To Run As Administrator
While trying to update some reports from SSRS 2005 to SSRS 2008 I ran into an odd error. If I attempted to run the report using the Cassini web server I received the message "Failed To Map Path '/'". Searching the interwebs brought me to the solution of running Visual... [Read More]


LinqPad == Awesome (or How to make the most of your tools)
I first discovered LinqPad in a session at Codestock a couple of years ago. Since that time I have used it on almost a daily basis for one thing or another. It is a great place to try out short sections of code, run queries or create snippets that will... [Read More]


Using Corona SDK Trial to Test An Application On Your iPhone
NOTE: Most of this requires access to a Mac computer. Download and Register Corona SDK Go to http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/ and download the Corona SDK. It is fairly trivial to install onto your Mac so I will not discuss that here. If you need help with that please refer to the ansca... [Read More]