This year, I’ve made it a personal goal to read only new (to me) books. I haven’t been good at finding new things to read and I’ve spent a lot of time (possibly a whole year) re-reading Discworld books, with occasional dips into my comic shelf. So that was a simple challenge – only read …
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Films I’ve Watched in 2017
Some years, I don’t get to the cinema. A couple of times now I’ve actually trekked out on my own in order to catch a film that I want to watch. In one of the Planet of the Apes reboot series, I was the only person in the whole screen. You can pretend you’re a …
Drag and Drop in Unity Part Two
After getting a basic system of moving Items between different Containers, I needed to extend this slightly. First of all, I need some feedback of which container an item is going to, and also of restricting items to only some containers. In most games, only some containers are valid locations to drop an item. Feedback …
Drag and Drop in Unity Part One
I’m starting to experiment with Unity for a hobby project involving a card game. In almost any card game, there are certain areas of the table for a collection of cards. Whether this is the vertical stack in Solitaire, the lands in Magic: The Gathering or a hidden hand of cards that aren’t ‘on’ the …
Drive Comic, Act One Book Review
This comic gets a lot better when it’s read all in one go. I started reading it as a fan of Sheldon (I’ve since dropped Sheldon from the comics that I read, it just got a bit… meh… for me), so I was reading each strip as it came online. If I remember rightly, Dave …
Fantasy Battles – Age of Sigmar
I promised a long, long time ago to try out Age of Sigmar. Jen really wasn’t interested, but my old Warhammer buddy has gotten into it and offered to show me through it. We played Wood Elves vs Warriors of Chaos (with a few Skaven thrown in) but I suppose in the new jargon that …
Kickstarter Roundup, part two
I’m not a mega-prolific backer by any means, but I do keep my eyes out for interesting projects. Here’s what I’ve been up to since my last Kickstarter Roundup… Deadzone: Infestation I backed this at $1 to see where it was going… but I wasn’t hooked enough by the end to back more. I really …
Brexit – Why I’m Marching
Warning: unedited stream of consciousness. Next Saturday, I’ll be attending a protest march in London. I know the government won’t listen, I know that nothing will change. Sometimes protests make change happen – not very often though. So why march? Well, there’s not much I can do to stop Brexit. My local MP defied Labour’s …
SQLite in ASP.NET Core WITHOUT Entity Framework
Try and search for ASP.NET Core and SQLite and you’ll get a dozen guides to using it with Entity Framework. First of all, we’ll need an ASP.NET Core website and install the Nuget packages Microsoft.Data.Sqlite and System.Data.Sqlite. I prefer to use Dapper for my database access (hence not wanting to use Entity Framework), so go …
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New Year, New Host, New Blog
I mentioned at the start of the year, I’m hoping to get back into blogging a bit more this year. I had a pretty good run of posting once a fortnight, but it fell away as my commute got shorter and less convenient for typing. I’ve moved my blog to Digital Ocean. The reason is …