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Clatto Verata N... Necktie... I've been a fan of the Evil Dead franchise since I first saw the original back when I was about 16. What a fantastic series of movies, and I love each and every one of them....

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Foam and Ghosts and Urethane...oh my! After much deliberation, hours of research and a handful of emails with http://www.smooth-on.com, I think I finally have a plan to build the kids proton packs for halloween. For...

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Facebook Development - getting started While I'm learning silverlight behind the screen, I thought I'd put a little article together about setting up your development environment for the Facebook Development platform....

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Hosting got ya Blue?

Posted on : 20-06-2009 | By : Fickle Frank | In : Web Development

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Sick of your current web host? Looking for a place for your new website? Look no further, I have what you need!

I’ve been developing websites since the days of animated gif’s (wow yer old mister!), and I’ve been doing freelance development for about 4 years now. So what I’m getting at is, I’ve had my fair share of dealings with a variety of different hosting companies. While some are nightmares, some are good there is one that stands alone when it comes to service, features and overall satisfaction. Who is it? Well let me first tell you what they offer you.

Ooo, Silverlight for games!

Posted on : 20-06-2009 | By : Fickle Frank | In : Silverlight

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Ooo, its a fancy new toy for me to play with. Well it’s not really new but it sure is neat, and its exactly what I need for a new project! (surprise surprise!)

As you may or may not know, I LOVE making games and seeing as I am a programmer I feel like I should have the required skill-set to do so. The roadblock I always hit is two fold though. The first part of the roadblock is graphics, while I am a programmer I am not a graphic designer, I like to draw but don’t feel that my work is game worthy, so I always end up getting frustrated with that and end up calling it quits. The second part of the roadblock is game programming knowledge. Even though programming is what I do, my primary focus in programming has always been business processing and automation (ho-hum kind of programming), so there’s a LOT to programming a game that I just don’t know. Anyone who has done research on game programming can tell you that there are sooo many choices, tools and theories out there that it can get a little overwhelming. So I guess the roadblock is really 3 fold. But, Oh Silverlight how you have tempted me to once again fall into this desire!

Updates and Changes

Posted on : 20-06-2009 | By : Fickle Frank | In : Random Fickleness

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Well hidy ho! I finally revamped the blog and upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress. Those you were here before might notice that the entire format, purpose etc of the blog has changed, and with good reason. Unfortunately having a blog dedicated to a single topical area just doesn’t cut it for someone like myself. As such attempting to keep a blog associated with a single area leads to few or no posts ever. With this new much broader purpose I hope to be able to post updates much more frequently.

Check out the About page to see info on what I am hoping to accomplish with this new blog. Post soon!

- Fickle Frank