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4 days until Christmas Holidays…
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I have a BlackBerry 8800 for work which is generally a good thing. I can read and write email, notes and calendar entries from anywhere, surf the web, get a route calculated from my current position and so on and so on.

Still, it’s a work gadget, so it would be just half the fun if [...]

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Christopher sent word that entwickler-press.de offers 24 free German developer e-Books for download in a virtual Advent calendar. Here’s the full list:
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I couldn’t resist buying Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare when I was en route for Christmas presents on Saturday. If you’d like to read my experiences with it, read on.

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“Ich habe vor 18 Jahren in Leipzig für meine Freiheit demonstriert und ich finde es schrecklich, dass ich schon wieder in der Kälte stehen muss, um für diese Rechte zu kämpfen.”
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I started several projects during the development time of DVW and eventually none of them came to an end (yet) in favor of DVW, so I thought I could share some of my findings. I wrote a little tutorial about how to electively serialize to and from XML or binary respectively. I would really appreciate [...]

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…for all Firefox bloggers. It allows using the TAB key as an actual tab character in textarea fields. Homepage
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…keeps crashing my system (7600 GT / XP).
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Looks cool, doesn’t it? I believe the Wii version would be great fun.
More info at destructoid.com.
Update Here’s the official site.
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Since my posting on the SoundMAX BSOD issues has become quite popular, I have decided to write another posting on my more recent experiences with the drivers in Windows XP. The problem was that it did not crash anymore but it did not let me record my cards output (which is called “StereoMix” or also [...]

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Without further ado, here is our cut-together of Dusmania 9.0 scenes plus original ingame footage plus official soundtrack tunes. Enjoy.

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The other day KingKiKapu of fellow indie team Elite Software messaged me that he was called by an employee of his bank because he used “Whores and Crack” as a subject in a bank transfer. The employee asked whether this was in order.
Now how does that make you feel?
If this leaves a queasy feeling for [...]

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…”Wer beim Autofahren stark gähnen muss und zu blinzeln beginnt, sollte sofort eine Pause einlegen und schlafen” — Ich werde meinen Chef fortan jeden Morgen darüber unterrichten, dass ich mich nochmal hinlegen muss.
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Yeah, I played it, too. Looks promising, even at 800×600.
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Since a blog looks so much better when you have some images and stuff in it (see mattins blog for example), I thought I could post a YouTube video. Unfortunately though this requires writing a bit about it in the first place.
When I was a child I used to watch a TV show, “The Tripods” [...]

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After I finished the Windows integration, Christopher did the necessary work on the Linux version (basically editing CMake files) and Jan did the OS X version work tonight (messing around with an XCode project in this case).
Let me cite him to show how damn easy it was.
[00:31] <sheijk|6S> sound geht ohne absturz: check
(Sound works without [...]

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…to Wordpress 2.3.1.
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Now that I’ve played around with irrKlang a bit, it’s time to write down a first resume. The first and best experience was how easy irrKlang was to integrate.
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I kept my fingers crossed for him. What a pity he didn’t make it.
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It’s funny to see how our requirements regarding sound support changed. When I started to incorporate sound into DVW (after our former teammate Anselm who wrote the very first audio device left us, that is) I went for Audiere. At that time, Audiere was a framework which fitted exactly our needs. We had a Windows-only [...]

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