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I just did something I was meaning to do for a while, but hadn't gotten around to doing (until now). That is, put some old game designs of mine up on the site for people to read and enjoy.

If you've played my game from the first TOJam, you will have probably noticed how it gets slower and slower as play progresses. For my first foray into .NET game development, I had developed the most absurd entity management system and relied on the garbage collector to take care of matters.

Big freakin' mistake.

Back when my proper computer still worked, I had an article I was writing in an on-again, off-again kind of way. The article was on extending and embedding the programming language Ruby. Well, this morning I found an e-mail from someone interested in such an article. So I'm going to be starting it all over again, and hopefully have it ready some time in the near future.

Faster than you can say CMS, I've put together an article demonstrating how to add a simple yet elegant hierarchical links page to any Drupal site. All it takes are a few good modules, a bit of elbow grease, and some sites you want as links!

The article on integrating Game Explorer and XNA is finally up and available for your reading pleasure! Included with the article are two sample projects, one which demonstrates how to integrate the metadata Game Explorer uses into your project, and the other showing how to register your game.

Read it, and tell me what you think!

One of the great new features in Windows Vista is the Game Explorer. The Game Explorer (or GameUX, as taken from the C++ header file for the component) makes it easy for Vista users to quickly and easily find the game they want to play or administer. Unfortunately, when Microsoft released XNA Game Studio Express, support to add XNA projects to Game Explorer was not added. I'm currently writing an article that explains how to add XNA projects to the Game Explorer, and so far I'm about half done. I expect to have the article completed by this time next week, or perhaps even earlier.