December 5, 2007
Windows Service Development Woes

At work, I’ve been working on a Windows service using C#, and I encountered a couple of problems that took a bit of digging to solve (for every page with useful info there are many pages with people asking how to solve the problem). I thought I’d put those here so they would be in one place for others who run into the same annoyances.

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December 4, 2007
Found Film

This is old, but I think it is one of the coolest pages I’ve seen on the internet. This guy finds antique cameras that still contain undeveloped film–dating back to the 1920’s or 1930’s in some cases–and he develops them and posts them online with some thoughtful commentary. Some of these photos really drive home how short life is… when I see a couple in their 20’s taking photographs of each other at the park on a nice fall day, knowing that both of them have possibly passed away without ever viewing those photos, it makes me think!

Old photo

December 1, 2007
Object-Oriented Input System (OIS) Documentation

I was playing with OGRE 3D, which now comes bundled with Object-Oriented Input System (OIS) for any input needs that you may have when tooling around. I didn’t see any documentation online for it, so I ran it through doxygen and hosted the pages here if anyone is interested. The docs are for version 1.0.