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Promit
October 07, 2010
Evaluation: Mercurial
Copy of a Ventspace post.

I've been a long time Subversion user, and I'm very comfortable with its quirks and limitations. It's an example of a centralized version control system (CVCS), which is very easy to understand. However, there's been a lot of talk lately about distributed version control s…
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Promit
August 19, 2010
BioReplicant Crowd Simulation
Been burning the oil on this for a couple weeks. What do you think?
">YouTube link
Vimeo link (looks nicer)

Also can't help but notice that YouTube HD's encode quality is awful.
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Promit
July 22, 2010
NHibernate Is Pretty Cool
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My last tech post was heavily negative, so today I'm going to try and be more positive. I've been working with a library called NHibernate, which is itself a port of a Java library called Hibernate. These are very mature, long-standing object relational mappin…
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Promit
July 15, 2010
Windows Installer is Terrible
As usual, this was copied from Ventspace.
I find Windows Installer to be truly baffling. It's as close to the heart of Windows as any developer tool gets. It is technology which literally every single Windows user interacts with, frequently. I believe practically every single team at Microsoft work…
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Promit
March 05, 2010
Selling Middleware
So a few days ago, we published a video demo of our BioReplicant technology. In particular, we published it without saying much. No explanation of how it works, what problems it solves, or how it could be used. That was a very important and carefully calculated decision. I felt it was critical that…
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Promit
March 03, 2010
BioReplicant Keeps Walking
">Click for High Def video.

This is what we've been working on for the last several months at AR Labs.
Forget falls.
Forget tackles.
BioReplicant keeps walking.
info@actionreactionlabs.com for more information.
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BioReplicants is a completely reactive procedural animation system …
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Promit
February 23, 2010
How to Serialize Interfaces in .NET
Late copy from Ventspace.
I'm working on some final touches for SlimTune's next version, and one of them involves persisting the launcher settings between application runs. Launching is handled by an interface ILauncher, which can be set to any number of things via a reflected list of inherited ty…
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February 21, 2010
ClickOnce Support in SlimDX
Man, it's been a long time since I wrote about SlimDX. We've released the February 2010 version, so go ahead and grab that if you're so inclined. This version is mostly bug fixes, for both us and Microsoft. DirectX 11 should be much more usable, although we're still working towards stronger D2D and…
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Promit
February 17, 2010
Wanted: Socket 939 motherboard
I'm looking for a s939 (AMD) motherboard to put together a mini server system for pretty much all my work (SlimDX, SlimTune, AR Labs). I have all the other pieces, it's just the mobo I'm missing. If someone is willing to send me an old but working one -- preferably micro ATX -- they're not using, t…
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Promit
February 11, 2010
SlimTune UI Teasers
This is a combination of a couple Ventspace posts.

Here's a quick teaser of the new UI:

The window hosting the visualizer is missing all of its widgets, but will eventually have a variety of controls along the edges. The revised main SlimTune window is essentially complete. This window is always ope…
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