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Friday, November 30, 2007 9:01 PM

Lego Mindstorms NXT: Control your robot via Wiimote

Reading (still pending) RSS feeds about Lego Mindstorms I've found something interesting... How to control your NXT robot with a pc and a Wiimote ! It uses Microsoft Robotics Studio and, more interesting, a managed .NET library for the Wiimote (which...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:55 PM

Protecting from SQL Injection in ASP.NET

Today a small post that I had in mind since some time... a quick-list of how to fortify against SQL Injection (and some more general best practices). You can do some javascript, client-side validations to avoid postbacks, but rembember: never, ever trust...
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Monday, September 10, 2007 10:42 PM

New Topic: Windows Live Agents

For the past months, I've been working with something new: Windows Live Agents (or, as most of us will call them, bots). ilitia was chosen as a Windows Live Agents Partner by MSN Spain, and we've been trying the official SDK. Few months ago, we...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:44 PM

To mock or not to mock, that is the question

I'm right now in the final weeks of the first phase of a project. We're very tight on schedule and having to leave a few features for the next phase. Although the project may be delayed because of the client, we want it to be because of them,...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007 2:33 PM

Double Dispatch in JADE 2.0

I've started looking in depth current JADE 2.0 code (it's being massively re-done from scratch, with even a custom .NET DirectX Wrapper), so I'm going to post more frecuently about it's development. I'm still learning how what's...
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 8:43 PM

Upgrading my home machine network

It's time to spend some money and upgrade my home machines! As I love playing games and watching movies, I've bought a new gaming PC (a real monster). Also, I'm getting a new laptop for development (including JADE and XNA development ;) and...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:22 AM

We were short for time and there were other interesting features to consider

Today I was building a mock of an ASP.NET Web Service for my current project, and I had some problems reading XML with spanish characters ('ñ' for example). I tried changing the <globalization> tag of the Web.Config to use an international...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:21 PM

Community Server 2007: Kartones.NET VideoAddon

Testing the new component I've developed: YouTube video (without the new crap): Soapbox video: Google video: Can be downloaded from here .
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 9:18 PM

ExitWindowsEx not working with Windows XP if computer is locked

Just a quick post of a problem I addressed today while finishing my current assignment. I used the ExitWindowsEx() API call to logoff the user (with the force close flag). In Vista it worked without any problem, logging out the user whenever he was using...
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Friday, June 01, 2007 11:20 PM

XNA Particle System sources uploaded

Just a small post. Vicente and I have finished commenting the code of our small XNA Particle Engine we built for the UPSAM speech we gave about XNA and the content pipeline . The code is not "production quality" and some minor things should...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 7:45 PM

Using WiX (Windows Installer XML)

For my current project, I've had to create installation packages with WiX , an opensource tool that allows to create very powerfull installers with XML. I've used the 2.0 version before, but now there is a beta of the 3.0 version, called Votive...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:31 PM

Quick tips for developing under Windows Vista

Now that I'm having quite a lot of development (and fighting with the OS) under Vista, here you are some quick tips that will help you a lot to develop efficiently with Visual Studio 2005. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7...
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Saturday, May 12, 2007 1:56 AM

Developing an XNA Particle System [UPDATED]

Today my friend Vicente and I gave a small speech at the UPSAM about XNA . Precisely, we presented a small particle engine done into a GameComponent, to acomplish some goals: Showing how clean and easy is to use GameComponents (actually we use one Camera...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 6:06 AM

An excellent article about Windows Vista

I've finished reading an interesting article about Windows Vista , interesting because is oriented for technical people (IT, developers and advanced users). It's the first article of three that will be published, but gives a good overview of some of the...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:36 AM

Doing some PR about Jade

Yesterday I officially came back to Jad Engine as an active developer. Vicente and I had a meeting with the other developers and they discussed about what the future 1.2 release will have. Although it is early to talk about that, the 1.1 is actually in...
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