Building enterprise solutions by day and games by night
I got my first “game” finished today. I added a WebService to the project, to save scores in an XML file. As this is my first Silverlight project, it is very bad/ugly coded and structured, which is why I won’t publish the source code for this.
The gameplay is very simple. You need to pop (by moving the needle into the bubble) as many bubbles as you can within 30 seconds. You don’t need to click to pop the bubble, just move the mouse(needle) over it.
To run silverlight applications on your host, you need to setup two MIME-Types:
Extension: .xap
Content Type: application/x-silverlight-app
Extension: .xaml
Content Type: application/xaml+xml
– Enjoy!
Due to some issues at my host, some of my websites, including Laumania.net has been down for some days. Laumania.net seems to be up and running again now, but there is still some issues with some of my other sites.
During my down time, I were investegating the possiblities of hosting my sites from home. I have a ok connection and computer to run as a server, no problem there. My biggest problem is email hosting. I don't want to run my own email server, as I can't be sure to have a 100 % uptime here at home. This is accepable for a website, if it's down a little while from time to time. But email can't be down, as I will loose emails then.
A solution to this could be Google Apps. I tryed it out yesterday, and it seems to work great! I used laumania.net as my first test domain, and it runs nicely!
First you have to create an account with a domain. Then you have to verify that you own the domain. After that you have to do some DNS changes for your domain, and then you are running. So all emails to my laumania.net domain now is recieved by google and put into my "semi" gmail account.
Read more about how it's working on the link above.