Book, Game, and Movie Reviews

• Beyond Star Trek
  A short review of the book Beyond Star Trek.
• DirectX 8 and Visual Basic Development
  A short review for the book.
• Windows Game Programming with Visual Basic and DirectX
  A short review for the book.
• Doom 3
  Contains a review about Doom3, it's gameplay, fun factor, graphics, etc.
• Farcry
  Contains a review about Farcry, it's gameplay, fun factor, graphics, etc.
• Philosophy of the conc
  Introduces you to conc jumping in half-life 1.
• Movie Review List
  Contains a list of movies that I have watched and have rated.
  

 General Articles

• Banking
  The first 2 pages from the book titled 'And the truth shall set you free' that describes the current banking system.
• Cures equal bankrupcy
  A short article on the reasons drug companies are incapable of selling cures.
• Die book man die
  Just a rant about books and reading.
• Picking apart World of Warcraft
  A page deticated to world of warcraft and my some of my viewpoints on the game.
  

Product Reviews

• Rhino 110
  Contains 2 reviews for the Garmin Rhino 110 GPS reciever. First review was written in 2003 and a new review added in 2004.

Programming

• Add Remove Enum values macros
  An article, with code, of a macro that shows how to add or remove enum values from a declared enumerated type in code.
• Bubble Sort
  Simple example and info about the bubble sort algorithim.
• Create Property
  Shows how to use this marco to create property wrapers for your varibles.
• Fart Sniffer Tutorial
  This tutorial will walk you through creating a number of flies that will fallow a scent trail, that you draw on the screen using the mouse. It will be designed to show how easy it is to code AI to achieve simple path finding / fallowing 'fly like' behavior.
• Game development difficulties
  This article is for game developers who are finding it difficult to finish there game projects, And try's to point out some of the reasons why these projects fail.
• How to set the toolbox bitmap of your windows user control
  Shows you how to setup a icon that will be used to represent your usercontrol in the vs.net toolbox.
• Scripting is the past Native code is the future! Part 1 of 3
  The code is written in vb.net and demonstrates how an application can compile actual fully featured vb.net code and create/call the objects and methods that are in that code.
• Scripting is the past Native code is the future! Part 2 of 3
  The fallowing code is based on the previous code I provided and demonstrates how a script (Code that gets compiled) Can access public variables that are contained inside of the running application.
• Scripting is the past Native code is the future! Part 3 of 3
  This new scripting application is based on the previous examples but has been rewritten to use an interface so that reflection is no longer required.
• Simple FOV (field of view) app
  Demonstrates a method of determining what parts of a grid a user is looking at using a field of view. I wrote this sample app because sometimes it's just easier to be able to look at something in front of you and trouble shoot rather then working with just a mental modal.
• Simulating 2D using 3D
  A short video showing how you can use 3D geometry to simulate 2D.
• Spitle
  A project I had started that would allow me to generate a series of overloaded methods with xml comments.
• Understanding why you get a MissingManifestResourceException
  Describes why you may be getting a MissingManifestResourceException when working with windows forms.
• WamPosterCL Web cam image capture with ftp support
  This program allows you to capture an image from your web cam as well as post that image to a ftp server.
• xIcon Browser add-in for vb6
  VB5 & 6 do not have an icon browser to browse through all the build in office icons. So I made one. Simply scroll through the list then select the icon you wish to use. The icons index will appear as well as a 16x16 and a 32x32 preview of the selected icon. The source is not commented very good. xIcon.zip (10.24 kb)
• ZipThatSnip
  Allows you to export and zip a selected piece of code from vs.net.
• Wow armory cheat sheet
  A list of ID's relating to the wow armory.
  

Home Brew

• Wiimote headgear
  Contains a quick article on how to create your own wii headgear (Sensor bar replacement)

Misc

• Quote List
  Just a list of mics quotes.
• Subdomains at createdbyx.com
  Contains a complete list of subdomains and description availible at the createdbyx.com website.