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Hello to anyone still following this blog. I just thought I should explain my (more than usual) silence over the last few months. In November we found out that my Mother is terminally ill with cancer. This has made it difficult for me to get into writing posts and helping out as much as I normally do on the site and around the community. As you can imagine this blog and other none family related things have been low on my list of priorities. My mother is still with us, but very ill now.

With that said, I do have some items I want to start writing up and posting, it’s just a matter of me getting time and motivation to do that. I have a few bits to write on WP7 development, I have been doing some Silverlight at work and have a few things to share about that as well as some more GPU postings, from ST:Excalibur to DX10/11.

I hope I have not ruined your day with my sad news, but I just wanted to let those that do follow the blog what’s going on.


Posted Thu, Jan 12 2012 2:25 PM by Charles Humphrey

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ChillyFlashER wrote re: Reason for Recent Radio Silence…
on Mon, Jan 16 2012 9:11 PM

Sad to hear, in my opinion you shouldn't feel pushed to publish posts, due to what your going through.

I am sorry but I came across a list of XNA render frameworks for some day ago. But there is a bit lack of documentation and I wonder if or what you think about it? (xen.codeplex.com)

Is it worth reading through the source code? Or not just use it. But it would be good to know it for rapidly game development.

I hope everything will be alright in the end. Regards Eric.

Charles Humphrey wrote re: Reason for Recent Radio Silence…
on Mon, Jan 16 2012 9:40 PM

Hi Eric,

Alas my mother passed away on Sunday.

As to feeling pressure to post, I don't, I post because I like to, so don't worry about that :D I just don't want people thinking I have just stopped.

Never used or seen that Xan stuff, looks like it might be useful to get started with.

Mark Neale wrote re: Reason for Recent Radio Silence…
on Tue, Jan 17 2012 12:39 PM

Very sorry to hear that Charles :(

Xen looks quite interesting, though I really need to stop playing with frameworks and actually write some game code. Wonder how it compares with the Sunburn engine that I've been tempted to invest in...

Barnaby Smith wrote re: Reason for Recent Radio Silence…
on Sun, Jan 22 2012 12:34 AM

I'm very sorry to hear of your loss. With sympathy, Barnaby.

Sharky-NZ wrote re: Reason for Recent Radio Silence…
on Tue, Jan 24 2012 9:51 AM

Really sorry to hear that Charles.  

Thoughts with you mate.