TAGENIGMA LLC

I had registered the domain name: [TGraupmann] a while back to host my portfolio and to do some website experiments. I decided to experiment with [SimpleViewer].

SimpleViewer takes an XML gallery file, so I wrote a handy Perl script to auto generate the gallery file:

#perl

print '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' . "n";
print '<simpleviewerGallery maxImageWidth="4096"
maxImageHeight="4096" textColor="0xFFFFFF"
frameColor="0xffffff" frameWidth="20" stagePadding="40"
thumbnailColumns="3" thumbnailRows="3" navPosition="left"
title="SimpleViewer Title" enableRightClickOpen="true"
backgroundImagePath="" imagePath="" thumbPath="">' . "n";

while (<images/*.jpg>)
{
   $_ =~ s/images///;
   print '   <image>' . "n";
   print '      <filename>' . $_ . '</filename>' . "n";
   print '      <caption>' . $_ . '</caption>' . "n";
   print '   </image>' . "n";
}

print '</simpleviewerGallery>' . "n";

I killed about 3000 spam comments on my stories with a single SQL statement. Beware any spammer from considering spamming me again.
delete FROM `gl_comments` WHERE 1
delete FROM `gl_storysubmission` WHERE 1
UPDATE `gl_stories` SET comments = 0 WHERE 1
DELETE FROM `gl_users` WHERE uid > 50


Also disabling comments worked wonders.

We went to the [Penny Arcade Expo] last night. Strange setup at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, WA. The event had a $20 one day admission fee. The event filled all three levels of the Meydenbauer. We got a bag of free stuff walking thru the door. The event had bean bags everywhere. Every bean bag had a kid on it playing on Nintendo DS lites. Most of the DS handsets where white. We saw a few teal imports. They had a few panels going, we saw a show on Women in the Game industry. Most of the rooms had consoles going. A lot of people playing Street Fighter and Guitar Hero. One dedicated guy in the courner was playing Geo Wars. They used the big room to play the movie [The Wizard]. Next door they were setting up the exhibits for the Expo for Saturday and Sunday. We snuck in and saw all the exhibits while they were setting up minus the rush of people.

We saw one new style of game called [Eets].

[WPF] is Microsoft’s latest challenge to be equivalent to Flash.

To be able write and install WPF websites and apps you need to install:

Windows XP / Vista

[February 2005 WinFX Community Technology Preview]

February 2005 WinFX SDK
(now called [Microsoft Windows SDK])

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or [Microsoft Visual C#]/[VB Express 2005]

[Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Community Technology Preview – WinFX™ Development Tools]

After installing all that you’ll be able to experiment with:

[Windows Presentation Foundation Hands-On-Labs – February 2006 CTP]

Here is an excellent that does a good overview of the WPF feature set.

Here are some tools to ease your WPF development:

[Microsoft Expression]