Archives / 2007 / June

  • Project Sylpheed Is Fun

    Thursday, June 28, 2007
    I just got done playing the Project Sylpheed demo on my XBox 360 and if you were ever a Robotech and Starblazers watching young teen then this is the game for you.  No, nothing transforms and it's nothing more in-depth than flying through space blowing up fighters and ships but something about the fast-paced action and constant steam of little anime characters yelling at you makes you feel like you're smack dab in the middle of one of those huge space battles you used to watch as a kid. The control scheme takes a little getting used to (and
  • Hotfix for Debugging ASP.NET on Vista (IIS7)

    Thursday, June 28, 2007
    One annoyance when I installed Vista on my development machine at home was that I could no longer debug my ASP.NET apps, due in large part to this error: "An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server." Lots of searching got me to an article by Mike Volodarsky on using various workarounds but I just saw on Scott Guthrie's blog that there is now there is a better solution out there, a patch for Visual Studio 2005. The patch can be downloaded here.