Archive for July, 2007


Firefox, Silverlight, Services and ASP.NET Debugging

Edit: If you’ve been having problems with this, it’s because I accidentally missed a step. Firefox will always look for an old process regardless of whether you want to start as a separate profile. To fix this, you need to add the MOZ_NO_REMOTE environment variable with a value of 1. Note: This [...]

Enjoyment Through Agency

Last night, on the way to the Post Mortem, I got into a discussion with my co-workers about my last post, which led to a discussion about the types of games we like. I, of course, related this all to agency theory, and started looking at things through the perspectives of what types of [...]

The Games We Play

So, it’s been a while since I’ve made a design post, not because I’m no longer interested in design, but because I’ve been so overwhelmed with making a product, that I haven’t had much time to a) play games or b) really think about their design. But these are just excuses really, right? [...]

The Illusion of Portability

So, I’ve been looking at a lot of Microsoft technology recently, especially a lot of the technology based on the .NET platform, and for a while I was really excited about some of the possibilities they presented. I thought that, in the future, I’d be able to write a single C# library, and use that [...]

MySQL and Visual Studio

So, I’ve been working a lot with Visual Studio, and although it doesn’t do everything perfectly, I tend to like it. One of the things I tend to like about it is its ability to group together lots of seemingly disparate technologies into a single solution file so that you can have all the [...]