Penny Arcade Expo

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].

Windows Presentation Foundation

[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]

    • 10 mile ride to Salem Woods

    Linae and I went riding in Monroe way out to the Salem Elementary School in Monroe. Today was the 7th day of sunshine in a row. This weather is uncharacteristic for the Seattle area. The 4th of July holiday has rained every year as long as I can remember. We’ll see if the sunshine can break our wet streak. (Nope…July 4th, cloudy morning, sunny afternoon, rainstorm for the evening. It poured!)

    Nearby Mountain tops:


    Download OBJ to Ogre.Mesh converter script (Windows)

    This is a little script I patched together to getting a faster pipeline going from OBJ to Ogre.Mesh files.

    I’m modeling in Modo, and didn’t want to manually do all these export tasks for minor changes.

    Read the readme. Run the install. Once installed right click any OBJ file and SendTo->convert_obj_to_mesh.cmd

    [https://tagenigma.com/source/ObjToMeshExporter.zip]