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 | Which saw me drive over 1,100 miles, fail to win in three poker tournaments (I came close but...) and just relaxed away from work, but by the time you read this I'll be back at work. The vacation also taught me just how useful a smart phone can be when away from my desktop computer. Free wifi also helped as most places where I was in the UK out of town have abysmal 3G from my service provider. I also attended a seminar on taking control and being a success, so in their words "Make it a great week!" | |
MySQL type alternatives to MySQL
MariaDB is a fork of MySQL with a number of differences; it has a new database engine called Aria (It was called Maria but renamed to avoid confusion with the MariaDB). The biggest difference is probably not the technology, software etc but the license. MariaDB is GPL'd. This avoids issues with Oracle over MySQL's licensing. Conceptually though MariaDB is compatible with MySQL (Well that's the aim). MySQL has been exceptionally popular over the last few years driving a large proportion of websites, and probably only recently surpassed by SQLite in smart cellphones. There was always a fear that when Sun bought MySQL that the licensing of MySQL would change and then Oracle buying Sun exacerbated that fear so that spurred the development of MariaDB. At least now if that happens, (although I consider it unlikely but...), the sky won't fall in!
| XNA Studio 4 Released
This is available in two versions, a version for Windows, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7, using C# and Visual Studio 2010, or a standalone for Windows XP that includes only Windows and Xbox 360 functionality. The XP installation requires that Visual C# Express 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher be installed. Unlike Silverlight, both WPF and XNA development are open to users of the Express versions. XNA Game Studio 4 adds support for the Windows Phone 7 platform (including 3D hardware acceleration), framework hardware profiles, configurable effects, built-in state objects, graphics device scalars and orientation, cross-platform and multi-touch input, microphone input and buffered audio playback and Visual Studio 2010 integration. I was also hoping that MonoXNA might have progressed further but no code has been published yet. This was an attempt to have XNA run on project Mono, the .NET for Linux.
| Castle Wolfenstein Source Code Released
Almost nine years ago, I played Return to Castle Wolfenstein, a classic 3D shoot-em-up with Nazis and supernatural horrors and completed it. I also played the multi-player online. Particularly memorable were the flame thrower and the big climactic battle against the resurrected Knight. ID Software has released the source code to the game and the add-on, ie along with Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, Return to Castle Wolfenstein single player and Return to Castle Wolfenstein multiplayer under the GPL license. These aren't just for Windows, but include Unix and MacOSX code as well. Note these only include the game source code, not the graphics. You need the full games for those. I was going to suggest checking to see if websites like Gog.com had the full game but unfortunately they appear to be out of business. That's very sad. PS, note this is to the FTP download site. Internet Explorer and Firefox can both handle FTP sites.The FTP folder also contains the source code for other ID games such as Quake 1 and 2 and Doom.
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