All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘VB.NET’

It is time. To The Mac!

Posted Jan 3 2010 by Oli in , , with 1 Comment

In late 2006 I wrote an article about how I switched from PC to Mac, and through frustration over a few petty things I switched back. The main reason was simply that the Mac didn’t allow me to play my PC games, nor did it (perhaps more importantly!) allow me to continue developing MS-based applications using the .NET Framework (a …

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Setting Sail Across the C

Posted Sep 2 2009 by Oli in , with 6 Comments

I’m a Microsoft developer. There, I said it. I’ve grown up in a world of BASIC, from the early days of QuickBASIC through to VB.NET today. It’s a fantastic, easy going world to live in – particularly since .NET – as everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) is laid out for you. As a development environment, it’s so easy to get …

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FXP Goes WPF

Posted Jan 18 2009 by Oli in  with 0 Comments

I keep looking at the new(ish) Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and can’t help but think that it would be an ideal technology for both FXP and parts of the new TV Heaven projects I’m working on … So, I’ve decided to go all in. Version 4 of FXP will be an entirely WPF-based application – and all the better for …

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From PC to Mac … and back again

Posted Aug 13 2006 by Oli in , , , with 1 Comment

I grew up with PCs. Actually, I grew up with my parents, younger sister and an imaginary friend called Rupert … but that’s beside the point. Where was I? Ah … Yes, I’ve grown up with PCs. My first ‘real’ computer was an Amstrad CPC-664. While my friends were busy playing games on their Amigas and Ataris, I was learning …

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