Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The best browser ever

There are many browsers out there, but the safest perhaps is the Mozilla Firefox browser. I've been using it for quite sometime now and there have been no trojans or spyware at all on my comp. Also the Firefox browser is tremendously faster than most if not all mainstream browsers. If you don't have the firefox browser, I suggest you download it. And to make matters easier, I've provided a link above, its below the page title and the search bar. Download Firefox now directly from the link above to enjoy a better browsing experience

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Fiddling with Microsoft XNA

I got the Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express about 2 weeks back and it seemed pretty nice but as you would have guessed its exclusively for the C# language, which after all is a managed language. The learning curve for XNA is pretty much not steep at all and even an ordinary coder could crack out a DirectX application is just a matter of hours. Will this kind of development last? Well thats a tough question and the answer is best given by whats going to happen, but the way I look at it is that its going to be pretty beneficial to quantity but not quality. I wonder if you can make custom ASM routines in C#. The devil with all that, I'm quite sure that developing games for the XBOX 360 is going to be a very pleasant process but as a coder who's been in the trenches for quite some time, give me good old C/C++ with ASM any day.