Wise Words
Too many people look at raising money as a starting point. Atari started with 0. Start with what you have but start. - Nolan Bushnell
An excellent quote and something that describes my present situation perfectly.
A Disappointing Purchase
I picked up Blur recently while visiting a different city at a local Zellers and it goes without saying that I'm disappointed. By the game? No.
The case had no game in it! The box was still in its packaging and it had the Microsoft seal on the side so I highly doubt it was tampered with, it's very likely that it was simply a manufacturing error. It's incredibly disappointing running into an issue like this since its never happened to me before and the feeling of an obstacle getting in the way of your new purchase is almost always a bad one.
Since I bought the game in a different city I don't know if I can exchange it but I'll certainly look into it.
Update: I called my local Zellers store shortly after posting this, they told me they can't do an exchange and that I should contact the store I bought it from to see if they can work something out with my local store regarding the issue. I don't feel like anything will be done unfortunately.
Fixing UnauthorizedAccessException on the Zune
If you come across an "UnauthorizedAccessException" error while programming for your Zune device via XNA the fix is relatively simple. In my case I came across this error when trying to read an XML file on my Zune.
Lets say we have something like,
[code]XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("Content/File.xml");[/code]
This will throw an error on the Zune (and perhaps other devices too) because of how the Zune accesses files locally. To fix we simply change the code to the following,
[code]string path = Path.Combine(StorageContainer.TitleLocation, "Content/File.xml");
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(path);[/code]
This should resolve the error, if you're still having trouble please post you issues in the comments section below.
A Milestone For Dog Fight Studios
Today was a remarkable day for Dog Fight Studios, we essentially reached a milestone which I hope is a good sign of things to come. The milestone isn't related to a specific product but for the company as a whole. I can't talk too much about it now but what I will say is things are looking good.
OneCMS is making progress but it's at a slow pace. I'm not entirely happy with how things were handled so far with OneCMS in terms of how we're getting releases out but there are many factors to account for. Ideally things shouldn't be this bad going forward. In terms of features we were very ambitious with OneCMS 2.6.4, in a way I think this was to blame. There are other announcements as well but those will have to wait for later.