Life updates

Posted by Jeffrey Vanneste at 12:36 PM on March 09, 2005

Category: Personal

Getting married:
Yes, it's hard to believe but I'm getting married in June 2006. When I first got Rachel's phone number I had to wait until she was drunk. When we went to Cuba around Christmas I popped the question and this time she was sober.

New job:
I start my new job at Point2 starting March 14, 2005. I can't wait to start.

Projects:
I have a couple projects on the go at the moment. I'm still working on a PHP board game but I stopped working on the Carcassonne version. Maybe I'll go back to it in some time. I've also been working on my next Bunnyhug Software game but I keep getting side tracked with playing with the new VS2005 Express.

Grape Scented

Posted by Jeffrey Vanneste at 12:32 PM on March 09, 2005

Category: Movies

My friend Sean finally finished his classical short animation film Grape Scented. My fiancé (yes I got engaged) does one of the voices and my old roommate Devin does the voice for the alien.
So, take a couple minutes out of your day and watch his film. Be sure to leave him some feedback. See if you can catch all the Star Wars references.

Stroke It - Mouse Gestures

Posted by Jeffrey Vanneste at 12:23 PM on March 09, 2005

Category: Useful Tools

My roommate Dustin is always trying to push mouse gestures on me. I always thought they were a waste of my time and I would go out of my way to turn them off in Maxthon. Well, I finally caved in and started using a couple in Maxthon and I love it.

I just started with the basic ones like: left to go back and right to go forward. It quickly grew to down for page down and up for page up. Then I wanted to be able to scroll to the top and bottom of the page. I started becoming so used to be able to scroll down with gestures that when I was in any other application (mainly Visual Studio) I would end up trying to do gestures a couple times before realizing that I couldn't in non-Maxthon applications. Enter Stroke It a free mouse gesture application.

With Stroke It I can have mouse gestures in any application. It's really easy to setup and supports a lot of different gestures out of the box. You can even create your own gestures and teach Stroke It how you draw other ones. I recommend checking out the Stroke It documentation for some quick tips and how to create new applications, commands and gestures.