The first app for the new website is Fireworks! This app loads a specially constructed .xml file and performs a fireworks display based on it. Producing an app that does this was actually a little programming test for potential programmer candidates where I work, but I thought I’d give it a go as well and get feedback on how I (self taught) compared with others programmers out there. It was actually a really good exercise for me: got experience with using both TinyXML and interfacing directly with DirectX. Considering it’s the first time using both of these, the result isn’t a bad effort, even if I’d go about things differently if I did it again.