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Mario Kart Wii
April 10th, 2008
Well I’ve spent most of my free time today playing this game so you can safely assume that it’s good.
If you feel like playing over Nintendo WFC my friends code is: 2750-1219-5606.
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C# 3.0 coolness
December 28th, 2007
Microsoft weren’t happy with just adding LINQ into C# 3.0, which by itself is an amazing feature, so they added a whole load of other useful stuff. Half of them are just syntactic-sugar but you can see how they’re going to save you time when coding. The other half let you do some cool tricks with very little effort.
Here’s a link to a MSDN Chopsticks webcast on C# 3.0 Language Enhancements, but you’ll need a Windows Live ID to get in.
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Assassin’s Creed first thoughts
November 14th, 2007
Ubisoft were completely honest when they said the first few minutes would explain everything. I’m not going to say anything but it’s going to be interesting to see if they continue it into further games.
The game looks very impressive and plays very smoothly. Occasionly there’s some slight niggles where the control instructions are a little vague but once you work it out you can easily pull off pretty much any move you want when you need too.
The crowd is very impressive but there’s still room for improvement. I’m not sure if I like how quickly word of your actions spreads through the world. Instead of there being some delay or limit to the effects of your actions every guard instantly knows what’s going on. I don’t know if they tried doing it properly and found that it made the game too easy or whethere it was just something they decided wasn’t worth the effort.
Apart from that, I’m two hours in and so far it’s great. So far so good Ubisoft, so far so good. I’d like to talk about what an interesting idea the secret is but I can’t do that without spoiling it for anyone that hasn’t played the game yet, and since it isn’t officially released until Friday I’ll keep my mouth shut until then.
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A reason to upgrade to Leopard and a reason for staying with Tiger
November 6th, 2007
First the reason to upgrade. Apple have added a generic SyncML plugin for iSync, so any device that supports SyncML can be made to work. All you need to do is follow the instructions to create a plugin and you’re away.
However, that means you have to survive the latest bug in Leopard. It seems that someone got confused with the idea of moving files. E.g. copy the files to the new location, delete them from the old one if the copy went ok. It seems that if the destination goes missing (say a network drive disconnects or an external drive gets unplugged by mistake) Leopard just decides that it’s finished copying and deletes the source files. Oops. There’s also a bug where Time Machine can hide your backups if you’ve put anything but [a-z A-Z 0-9] in your computers name.
Yet again it seems the advice to never use/buy and Apple .0 release is as true as ever. Pity really since Leopard does seem to be a good upgrade otherwise.
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