ARC04DC Rule the World with the .NET Micro Framework

Just done my first session at DevDays 09. Great fun and a lovely audience.

This is the bunch in the middle of the room. the other pictures are on my Flickr account.

If you want to download the software, you can get it here.

World Domination

I’m going to take over the world. Haha.

Update on Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 05:30PM by Rob

I'm sorry about this post. I actually did it live in the middle of "ARC04DC Rule the World with the .NET Micro Framework" at DevDays09. I was showing off how my Blog Post alert system worked, and it did.

I would like to reasssure the population of the world that actually I'm not trying to move into world domination and that any resemblance that I may have to a power crazed tyrant is entirely coincidental.

Point the Camera at the Screen

I’m getting ready for my DevDays session later this week. I’m demonstrating some .NET Micro Framework devices that are a bit small, and so I thought I’d use a webcam to show close-ups of the toys. I was testing it just now and of course I pointed it at the screen.

Cool eh?

If you are going to DevDays then feel free to come along. The Geek Night should be great fun.

Breaking in With Thirteen One Magazine

I met up today with Craig from Thirteen 1 magazine. They are doing a set of articles on breaking into the games industry, and I’m going to be recording some video podcasts for them about learning XNA.

Don’t worry, the camera won’t be pointed at me. Instead I’m going to capture the steps you need to follow to set up your computer and then write some XNA games. Should be fun.

Angels and Demons Movie Review

Apparently the Catholic Church is not very happy with the film “Angels and Demons”, from the Dan Browne novel with the same name. I hadn’t expected the Vatican to have a movie review side to their business, but having seen the film I know what they mean.

I thought the Tomb Raider films had pretty much scraped the barrel on dodgy plotlines, evil blokes in cassocks and thousand year old secret societies. I was wrong. And at least with them we got Lara Croft to look at and some nice jungle scenery every now and then. Here we just got Tom Hanks with his furrowed brow and the inside of some churches. And a lady physicist in high heels who occasionally popped up to translate some Latin or spout some duff physics.

It took all my iron will and resolve to keep from having hysterics when the bad guy, thoroughly nasty all the way to his “straight from central casting” steel rimmed glasses, and having just laid waste to half of the Italian police force, pointed his weapon at our hero and said “I will not shoot you, because you do not carry a gun and I have not been ordered to”. I’m pretty sure that as he turned away I heard him add “..and also because you are Tom Hanks”.

The good news is that I spotted the bad guy right at the start. The better news for me is that I did this without having had to wade through the book first.

And to think I could have gone into the screen next door and watched Star Trek again. What a waste.