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New Xbox Friends Gadget released and a Silverlight Gamercard Generator
Thursday, April 03, 2008Adam Kinney, Silverlight dude and my colleague at work, has released an updated version of his Xbox Friends Watch gadget and a new standalone gamercard gadget for your website that uses Silverlight 2.0. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
The code for my blog site is now available on codeplex.com
Tuesday, October 23, 2007For anyone who is interested in using the code behind this site for their own blog, or who just finds reading code to be a fun pastime, you can go to http://www.codeplex.com/oxite to check it out. Of course, there are other blog engines up there, including blog engine .NET (which appears to be very highly supported and recommended by many folks), if you are in the market for some free blogging code. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Put up a REST API for Xbox Gamertag Data
Saturday, May 26, 2007My twitter app uses a web service hosted on my site to get all the necessary Xbox Live info.... way more than the twitter app actually uses. This is a SOAP API, located here: http://duncanmackenzie.net/services/XboxInfo.asmx I know that some people prefer a more RESTful API though, so I also have another 'page' that you can call with a straight GET request and just pass the gamertag in as a query string parameter: http://duncanmackenzie.net/services/GetXboxInfo.aspx?GamerTag=Festive+Turkey Enjoy! [read more...]Filed under | 31 comments »Share this -
Connect your Xbox 360 Gamertag to Twitter
Friday, May 11, 2007UPDATE: I've updated this application since the original version, addressing most of the 'known issues' listed belowhey folks, the first version of my xbox to twitter app is done (at least done enough to share!) ... Install the .NET Framework 2.0 (if you don't have it) Install the app Run it (from the "Duncan Mackenzie" folder in your Start Menu) Right click the little 'twitter' icon on your notification area, pick Settings ... enter in your Twitter Email Address Twitter Screen Name Twitter Password Gamertag check "Updates Enabled" Click OK to save these settings... Now fire up your Xbox 360 [read more...]Filed under | 19 comments »Share this -
Code Monkey by Jonathon Coulton
Saturday, October 21, 2006Ok, if you are a programmer... or even if you just can relate enough that you think Office Space is one of the best movies in the world (doesn't everyone?) then I need you to do this: Go to http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs Scroll down to "Thing a Week III" Click on the play button next to Code Monkey Enjoy! Jonathan works on the Popular Science podcast, does music for John Hodgman's Little Gray Books, and used to be a programmer (although I don't think you ever stop being a programmer, you just decide to do something else with most of your time) [read more...]Share this -
WPF/Avalon seems so easy, it might be time for me to try it out :)
Wednesday, September 06, 2006I was browsing on www.xamlog.com and I found this tutorial on "Reflection using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask", which shows you how to produce this effect: with very little code/markup. Hmm... now that I finally have Vista up and running, it might be worth giving it a try. [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Windows Live Writer
Wednesday, August 16, 2006on10.net has a good interview up about the new blogging tool from the Windows Live team. What's cool about this app? For a developer, there is tons to be excited about, including a very easy to use SDK (wrote some plug-in code last night, super easy) and it ships with a bunch of .NET assemblies that I'm about to go spelunking through... [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Learn a bit about how on10.net was made
Monday, March 13, 2006Interview with the dev team (including me) is up on Channel 9 [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
We are live...
Sunday, March 12, 2006the site is live that is... well, so are we... anyway... the real code for http://on10.net is up and running! We know about a few issues, but in general it is ready to rock, so feel free to shoot on over and grab your userid before all the good ones are gone :) [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
People who "View Source" are my kind of people...
Thursday, March 09, 2006It didn't take too long, people found Adam's little puzzle (Channel 9) [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this
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