Eric Gunnerson's Compendium
Build a 3D XNA game from scratch - webcast series
This came highly recommended... Build a 3D XNA game from scratch - webcast series
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/06/2008
The correct answer is "snowblower"
As some guessed, a snowblower. More specifically, an Ariens 824E snowblower, from...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/28/2008
Ninja Warrior
My daughter found some broadcasts of a show named "Ninja Warrior" (originally named Sasuke in its...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/25/2008
What did Eric buy?
228 pound 6 speeds 318cc
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/25/2008
Users, records, and multi-record applications
A topic came up yesterday in the forums, and I thought it was of general interest. HealthVault is...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/22/2008
Family Health Guy
Sean Nolan, my second-level (aka my manager's manager) and chief HealthVault architect, has started...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/22/2008
HealthVault: Batching up queries
When I first started using the HealthVault SDK, I wrote some code like this, based on what I had...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/18/2008
Miscellanea, and how to get a Wii
I'm back at work today, after spending a record (for me) 23 days away from the office. The last time...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/07/2008
Ring of Fire - Summary
Ring of Fire is a tree ornament I built this year. A big, high-powered, custom-animated tree...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/12/2007
Santa Animation
The oldest of my displays. The "landing lights" are blue lights in canning jars dyed blue. All the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/11/2007
Ring of Fire - Video
Here's a video of the completed project. The video is from my Canon G3, so the quality isn't very...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/11/2007
Tree of Lights Video
My second animated display. This one has 16 channels and runs using a Motorola 68HC11...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/11/2007
Stay at Home Server
The Windows team has launched Stay at Home Server, and they've produced a short book that introduces...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/07/2007
Ring of Fire - Ring and Firmware
After firming up the animations that I wanted to do, I got two things accomplished in the last few...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 12/04/2007
Battery University
A great resource for all things related to rechargeable batteries.
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/29/2007
The life and times of a HealthVault piece of data...
HealthVault has two temporarl views of data. The first temporal view is fairly obvious. If, for...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/29/2007
Ring of Fire
No, not that... Some of you may know of my devotion to holiday lighting, and I've been spending a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/20/2007
Storing CCR and CCD data in HealthVault
There have been a couple of questions recently about storing CCR and CCD data in HealthVault, so I...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/16/2007
The physics of rock guitar...
I wish I had a PhD in guitar acoustics... The physics of rock guitar...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/15/2007
Psychic debugging...
Ray wrote a post entitled "Psychic Debuggin: IP on heap", where he talks about somebody being amazed...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/15/2007
Request-Response Tracing (low-level debugging)
If you want to do some low level debugging of the traffic between your application and the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/14/2007
Extending HealthVault data types using a custom extension class
This post will cover the second method of extending a HealthVault data type. If you haven't read...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/08/2007
Extending HealthVault data types using HealthRecordItemExtension
So, let's say that you're building an application using the HealthVault Height type, and you find...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/08/2007
Happy Birthday!
30 years. 30 years ago - give or take a few days - Digital Equipment Corporation introduced the VAX...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/06/2007
Deep Breath...
An unexpected vacation. Here's why...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/05/2007
Second use, third use
A few days ago, I got a link to a post on Software Performance, which touches on a specific topic...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/02/2007
Prepare for liftoff...
Last year, I came into work to find my main desktop machine off. Now, this machine had been...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 11/02/2007
What data type should I use?
In my previous posts, I kindof glossed over the different kinds of data types you might have in your...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/30/2007
HealthVault Data Types - a custom data type architecture
In my last post, I showed how to create custom data types, but there's an obvious problem with that...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/29/2007
HealthVault Data Types - Custom Data Types
So, you're using the SDK, and it turns out that you need to store some data, and there isn't a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/29/2007
HealthVault Data Types - Weight, measurements, and display values...
In this post, I'd like to discuss a bit more about the HealthVault data types. The types all live in...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/25/2007
I apologize (again)...
Onslaught looks like another tower defense game, but has a few differences that make it very nice....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/24/2007
Spamalot
Last Saturday night, the three of us headed into Seattle (the Big City) to see Spamalot at the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/24/2007
Moving from "write no tests" to TDD
There was a post on an internal alias about moving a team that has not been creating any...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/19/2007
Relationship news...
Today I took the day off to go to a Chemistry talk at the UW. This isn't something that I would...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/18/2007
HealthVault Data Types: HealthRecordItem
The type system of HealthVault is a bit different from some of the others I've worked with, so I...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/17/2007
Threat Modeling
I've been reading a set of posts by Larry (who used to work just down the hall from me...) on threat...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/15/2007
Building Connection Center add-ins using WiX - part 4 (code signing)
The last step of this process is to sign the .msi file that you created, so that users won't get any...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/15/2007
Building Connection Center add-ins using WiX - part 3 (your content)
Now, we'll figure out how to get your content into the If you go to your SDK installation, in the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/12/2007
Building Connection Center add-ins using WiX - part 2
To actually get anything installed, we'll need a more reasonble WXS file. <?xml...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/12/2007
Building Connection Center add-ins using WiX - part 1
I'm writing this specifically for developers who need to add links into HealthVault Connection...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/12/2007
Halo 3 review
A nice Halo 3 review
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/11/2007
Unit testing through the UI
One of my readers asked whether there were any UI unit testing tools. While I have seen some ASP.net...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/09/2007
HealthVault and certificates
One of the confusing parts about HealthVault development has to do with certificates. If you've...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/08/2007
First Light
Astronomers have a concept named "First Light". After years or even decades of work, a new telescope...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/04/2007
Unit test framework syntax comparison
Here's a nice comparison of how different C# unit testing framework express their concepts - it...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 10/03/2007
Halo 3: The future of gaming...
Though I've been a bit too busy to take a "Halo day" off this week, I have spent a bit of time...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/28/2007
xUnit.net...
From Jim Newkirk, one of the original NUnit authors... xunit.net
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 09/24/2007