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A New Android Game in Town (by my brother)
05 February 12 10:36 PM | pavely | 2 comment(s)

Anyone who has ever written a game knows it’s hard to get it done from start to finish. Sure, I can put on a demo of some game I’ve created in several hours. But creating all the graphics, sound, animation, levels, transitions, scoring, etc, from start to finish is quite a challenge, especially for a single developer. That’s why I’m very proud of my young brother, Yaniv , that has worked hard for the past 10 months (while maintaining a proper day job!) on an awesome fun game called Micro Wars , targeted...

תגים:Fun, Graphics, OFFTOPIC, TECH, Games, Android

The laptop’s new life with SSD
05 January 12 06:37 PM | pavely | with no comments

A few days ago I upgraded my hard drives in my laptop to SSD (Solid State Drive). This is one of those things that once you do it – there’s no turning back; you’ll never consider using a “regular” spinning hard disk. Hard disk speed is crucial to a developer – Visual Studio 2010 is a hungry I/O beast, and when various extensions are installed, things get worse. My laptop is no woos - it’s an Alienware m17x -R2, equipped with a Core-i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon 5870 card (DirectX 11...

תגים:DEV, TECH

My TechEd 2010 Session
19 November 10 03:26 PM | pavely | 1 comment(s)

TechEd 2010 in Eilat is approaching fast. My session is about what MEF (from .NET 4)and Unity (from the Enterprise Library, but does not depend on it) can do for you and your code. If you’re new to MEF and wonder what that is and what it can do (and you’re not on your plane back to Israel center at that time), you might want to stop by. If you’re using the dependency injection idea with Unity, I’ll show some of the things Unity can do. It’s gonna be fun, mostly demos, and hey – it’s the last session...

תגים:מכללת הי-טק, teched, DEV, TECH, TechEd2010, teched_il

I Don’t like “Aero”, but I want thumbnail previews
06 July 09 10:29 AM | pavely | 5 comment(s)

I don’t like the “Aero” themes in Vista/Windows 7. I tried. I really did. I decided to work for several days with Aero and it was uncomfortable – and it has nothing to do with video card performance. It’s distracting. I simply don’t like it. I guess I’m entitled to my opinion. But if I don’t use Aero I don’t get thumbnail previews and other goodies. Why is that? I asked around and didn’t get a satisfying answer. The most common was “you must move on to the modern style”. Modern? I think not. There...

תגים:TECH