Tuesday 6 October 2009

AxumMUD

Just a quick note to say that the code for AxumMUD is online at CodePlex. The network layer is basically complete, though I'll likely go back and refactor when I've got some time, but I'm currently working on the Character/Location design and event communication; hopefully I'll get that checked in later in the week.

Monday 5 October 2009

New keyboard shortcuts

The fn key on my new laptop has shifted all the ctrl/alt/et cetera keys one to the right, so I keep hitting the wrong ones and discovering new keyboard shortcuts. So I'll note them here as I discover them:

In Visual Studio 2008
Shift+Alt+Left/Right Arrow: Same as Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right Arrow (selects whole tokens at a time), except it selects words within the token, delimited by capitals. E.g. if the carat were at the end of the token "BuildNewConnection", pressing Shift+Alt+Left Arrow would select "Connection".

In Windows 7
Win + Left Arrow: Aero Snaps the current window to the left of the screen, then rotates through Aero Snap Right, Restore, Aero Snap Left et cetera.
Win + Right Arrow: Aero Snaps the current window to the right of the screen, then rotates through Aero Snap Left, Restore, Aero Snap Right et cetera.
Win + Up Arrow: Maximises the current window.
Win + Down Arrow: Minimises the current window.
Shift + Win + Up Arrow: Stretches the current window to the top and bottom of the screen.
Win + Home: Aero Shake (minimises all windows except the current window).