2007-11-11
The Making of Peggle
PopCap released an article, complete with pictures and videos, about how they created their awesome game Peggle (download or play online). This cool article clearly explains the entire development process of a great game. Go read The Making of Peggle.
2007-11-08
Opera Mini 4 released
Opera has released Opera Mini 4. New features include Opera Link (a way of synchronizing the bookmarks on your mobile phone with the bookmarks on your desktop PC), a virtual mouse cursor, enhanced Small Screen Rendering and much more.
2007-11-01
Cool new Opera skin
I just downloaded this cool new Opera skin called Vista Black and Black. It combines elements from Vista, IE7 and Office 2007. There are a lot of skins that emulate the Vista-look or IE7 or Office 2007, but none of them really looked fine for me. But I think this one looks awesome.
TC Animation Library
I just released the source code of a Windows Forms animation library I wrote last weekend. I first didn't want to release the source code because the animations looked terrible.
I knew the code I wrote was good and should work, but it ran horribly. The UI would just freeze when 1 animation ran; running multiple animations simultaneously was impossible. This morning I woke up and had a mad idea: to slow down the animation. The reason the UI would freeze was because all the animation steps were performed on the UI-thread and apparently the animation system flooded the UI-thread with work to do, so the normal UI-activities (painting controls, handling input, ...) were severely delayed. By adding 1 line of code (Thread.Sleep(5);) to the animation loop, I managed to make the animations run fluently while keeping the UI responsive.
You can find the source code in the Channel 9 Sandbox, here.
