Monthly Archives: October 2005

The Numbers Game

I finished reading this book last week. It is Australian based, covering the basics of reading balance and profit/lose type reports found in prospectuses. It covers industrial and mining, and a little bit of tech.

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Joel is on the Money again

I just read Joel’s latest article on Set Your Priorities. The first part reminded me of one of the reasons I disliked working at ATR. Building features for single customers. Our best success came from building products that where applicable … Continue reading

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First of the System.Drawing apps now in C#

Well after 3 1/2 Hours I’ve got the first example program “SystemDrawingDemo” rewritten in C#. I was prepared to experiment with the VB code, but for a really clever reason I unselected VB when I installed VS2005, because who would … Continue reading

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Now this is a fun game

Mark has a posted to a new game. You get three rounds of setting of an explosion (that expands and collapses) that triggers new explosion when touching the blue dots. The idea is to set off the largest chain reaction. … Continue reading

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A Sprint through System.Drawing

Just got back from the .Net user group meeting on the System.Drawing namespace. Brent Clark did a good presentation, with plenty of code, examples and a refresher amount of theory. He showed how to do custom lists, and drawing on … Continue reading

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