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28. november 2008 13:02

Axialis is making a 50% off sale today only

Marc from Axialis sent me a message that Axialis is having 50% off sale today and only today. If you are in mood for creating artwork such as icons and cursors this would be the perfect timing. BTW their IconWorkshop is really a nice product, even for
Posted by Miha Markic | 3 Comments
14. november 2008 15:28

SIOL (IPTV provider) managed to upset its customers once more

I have an IPTV provided by biggest national IPTV/IS provider. The current service is poor at best. We have FTTH (the slowest is 20Mb - that's awesome) but really lousy (~4Mb at best) MPEG2 (!) encoded streams. The most obvious consequence of such encoding
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12. november 2008 16:19

DirectX HLSL compiler chokes on unicode sources

In a week or so I've created two HLSL effects in two different .fx files. While they were really simple and straightforward, one of them failed to load at runtime in my managed DirectX 3D application (yet both worked in NVidia FX Composer ). Why would
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8. november 2008 15:14

Twittering

I have obviously too much free time and thus started twittering. Here is my twitter profile .
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8. november 2008 15:09

Using extension methods to make code less cluttered

Here is an example where an extension method is useful. Take this LLBLGen Pro code for example: public EntityCollection < CustomersEntity > GetCustomers() { using (DataAccessAdapter da = new DataAccessAdapter( " Data Source=[SERVER];Initial
Posted by Miha Markic | 3 Comments
5. november 2008 21:09

CodeRush Xpress is free

A stripped (more express) version of CodeRush, called CodeRush Xpress, is available for download at no charge! And even a bunch of refactorings are included. See the announcement or go to the product page directly. Now you don't have any more excuses
Posted by Miha Markic | 2 Comments