Not that my web sites get enough traffic to warrant doing this, but it’s still the principal.  The primary codejockey.net web site as well as this blog site will go dark later this morning starting at 8am to protest SOPA/PIPA.

Just in time for me to get RC1 completed before the end of the year!

After hearing a few reports from friends of mine, and also starting to experience the problem personally I noticed BingPaper started crashing.  This turned out to be an easy fix and tonight I finally got a chance to get it fixed, tested, checked in, and published to the CodePlex site.  If you have BingPaper and have had problems with it crashing lately, please grab the latest update to make that problem go away. More...

Mozy has been both a positive and a negative experience over the years.  I’ve run into issues where the restore was corrupted, and a request of a different restore in time fixed the issue, annoying, especially given how long it seemed to take for my restore to be available for download, then to have to wait for the download to finish.  The Mozy client is so poorly written that I didn’t bother to install it on my newest laptop as it loves to PEG the hard drive and I got very tired of that problem alone.More...

I was going to write up a bunch of steps with code, screen shots, config settings, etc for working with log4net, but it turns out someone, a while ago, has beat me to the punch.  The articles I found are fantastically done and I see no reason to re-write what someone has already done a superb job of doing.  So without further ado, here is a link to a “landing” page the author created with links to all his log4net articles.  This link should wind up in your favorites!

http://www.beefycode.com/post/Log4Net-Tutorials-and-Resources.aspx

Introduction

Two tools that should be in every developer’s arsenal are Fiddler and Beyond Compare.

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Introduction

Feel free to skip past this, If you’d rather cut to the chase and  want the summary of my thoughts and opinion about the movie feel free to skip to the Tron Legacy: My Opinion portion of this post.   Otherwise I’m going to ramble quite a bit talking about some Tron History and also provide some details on how and why the movie is and always will be #1 on my list of favorites.  My Disclaimer: As such, odds are that you might as well understand this is going to be a positive review as I am biased to begin with. 

Introduction

A friend of mine asked me how to do this so I figured I would turn into into a blog post as it may help others as well and I haven’t blogged in quite some time so why not?  Hope this explains every thing needed to make this work, if you have a correction, suggestion or comment please feel free to leave a comment.

After getting home today I quickly purchased the new add-on and got started right away.  I want to first say this add-on was VERY well done!  It felt very well put together, the was no “loose ends” feeling that I got from the Awakening expansion.  A huge congrats to the Dragon Age team on a job extremely well done!

I defended the Archdemon and all my previous allies now lay slain.  You get to meet (and kill) the whole bunch.  I won’t spoil who, but I’m sure you can guess. :)

Well worth the $5.00 price tag, I almost feel bad as I beat the add-on already and I’m sure the Bioware team poured lots of development, testing and QA hours into the add-on and I waltzed right though it.  Though in my case it was quite a challenge because I’m normally the type who prefers to play caster characters, and as a Darkspawn Vanguard you’re NOT a caster.

The cool part of the game is how you “acquire” party members, you basically use an ability to create a “thrall.”  The target of the spell joins your group and your group limit is 4, as per usual.  The add-on took some time to adjust to for me because I play caster type characters, but it was extremely fun!

Thanks Bioware for yet another great add-on to Dragon Age!  I’m excited to see what you have in store for us now.  What a surprise this add-on was, excellent job on the twist factor! :)

I get comments on many posts that ask if the person posting the comment may link to the content.  As a lazy developer I figured I’d make it easy to answer the question.  When I stood up this blog it was really a place for me to hold thoughts, ideas and things I learned.  I really had no idea that people would actually read my blog let alone ask if they could link to it or utilize it’s content!

To anyone who’s wondering: Please feel free to link to any post you find useful, you don’t have to ask.  I sincerely appreciate the consideration and the time you take to ask but it’s not a concern if you'd like to do so.

Thank you for asking and thank you for containing to read!

Microsoft put together a really nice feature of Windows that I found myself using recently that worked very well.  There was an issue on my Wife’s laptop and it turns out some recent driver update basically broke her wireless adapter. More...