Saturday, April 16, 2011

Trese Brother's Software: Star Traders RPG v3.6.9 Released

Trese Brother's Software: Star Traders RPG v3.6.9 Released: "The newest version of Star Traders RPG has been released to the Android Market! You can download the free to play edition also available f..."

Another release of my Star Traders RPG game, a from-scratch one-man development project using Java and Eclipse.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Trese Brother's Software: Star Traders RPG v3.6.8 Released

Trese Brother's Software: Star Traders RPG v3.6.8 Released: "Full Screen Option Better Honeycomb Support Improved Game Skins Added First 4 Backgrounds for Game Screens Improved Map Movement Performance..."

Friday, April 08, 2011

Bad Idea

Geeking out reading old backstory of The Ur-Quan Masters on Wiki pages when I should be coding

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Refactoring Tools: Eclipse v. Visual Studio 2010

After coding with both Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Eclipse Basic 3.6 I can honestly say, Visual Studio sucks at refactoring.

The basic "change method signature" tool in Eclipse -- which is free -- is honestly at least 5 times better than the Visual Studio version which cost me -- literally -- thousands of dollars.

It seems that the best way to get Visual Studio to refactor at roughly the same level as Eclipse is to purchase ANOTHER commercial product -- ReSharper to plug into Visual Studio and bring up the refactoring. Really?

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Telerik RadControls

I would not trust anything they say about the capabilities of this application component outside of our own ability to verify and test it.
 
I have opened over 10 tickets with TELERIK regarding these controls and not a single one of them has been resolved with "the documentation was correct, here is the configuration parameter you need."
 
Resolutions are most often are "You do not understand ASP.net" or "none of our other clients use load balancers."
 
Short answer -- don't trust Telerik any farther than you can throw them.

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Android Market for Publishers has been up and down for days/weeks ... I press reload every 10 or 15 minutes and push updates the moment it shows me something that works. Sometimes the updates, work, sometimes they don't. Pretty random, but you always get something like this at the end:

Google Android Market User Interface

Android Market Stability Down to 50%?

We're into the second week of nasty Android Market problems right now

Problems range from:
1) Getting 404 on the page
2) Not loading any applications in the console
3) Being told your applications don't belong to you
4) Statistics off by an order of magnitude
5) Data not updating
6) Google Checkout skipping a day in payments
7) Updates Failing to Publish