Shell extensions, code design and fluff

*looks at clock* it's 05.43 and I'm still awake...
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Seriema
July 07, 2006
MenuOption: Struggle
Hi everyone!

I've been away from my journal for too long. I started writing an article I was going to reawaken the journal with, but since stuff like SUMMER VACATION constantly reminds itself by interrupting my work I thought I'd just post small progress reports on MediatorMenu!

The actual shell exte…
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Seriema
May 07, 2006
Who's the Master Chief now?!
Yay Swedish Game Awards (SGA) 2006 is over! We broke several records, such as prize money, people attending the events, and quality on the entries! I'm so proud! :D

We even got an article about the finale in Swedens Scandinavias largest online game magazine, FragZone (now following the uber hawt tre…
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Seriema
April 03, 2006
My favourite articles and sites
Yo all!

It's been a while, "solly"! I've had so many side projects going that I haven't had the time to continue my coding projects. *sniffles* I recently went to MIT 50K Global Startup Workshop, in Argentina! *awesomeness* The workshop was interesting and the people a blast!

I was asked by one of th…
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Seriema
January 15, 2006
Copying message boxes
Continuing on my simple but usefull Windows XP tips posts, here's something that many at #gamedev went:
how did you manage to copy a dialog box?
how... weird?
wtf?
copying dialog boxes?!

Yes. It's true! When a dialog box is active, just press ctrl + c. The standard copy to clipboard.



Selecting and pr…
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Seriema
January 11, 2006
Quck tool access
Windows Run

The Windows Run dialog

Isn't it nice when you can just click Start > Run or press the windows button + 'r' and then type "calc" to get the Windows Calculator? What if you could do this with all your favourite applications? Some applications make themselves available this way on install…
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Seriema
January 09, 2006
New shell extension project: MediatorMenu
Document history
2006-01-18: Added a new Goal, "powerfull commandlines", and removed what was mentioned about that in Ideas.
2006-01-21: Added the "Design?", "Guidelines?" and "Definitions?" sections. Added a two new Goals, batch commands and commandline return values.

Introduction
The menu that shows …
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Seriema
December 18, 2005
PADI certified Open Water Diver
Lady and gentlemen!! (that kinda sums up the ratio in here)

You are now reading the journal of a PADI Open Water Diver!! W00T!!! I went to Ilhabela to finish my course. Finally...

Here's some photos of the weird things I saw, including myself! omg!
(click for full image)





Mini compo! NAME THAT THING! Fi…
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Seriema
December 16, 2005
Keep your finger of the lense!
I'm drunk ^^ So all you drunken haters just move along!

I wove you... XD this is my 1rst drunk post! Let's hare more!

Me and my friend found a mop in the bathroom, so what do you do?


I went to a normal alternative rock party and suddenly, dramaticly, a girl started stripping!!! :O No way!! But yes way…
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Seriema
December 14, 2005
Web Design Patterns for E-Government Websites
Some of you might remember my "secret project" I was making for a school project. The project consists on evaluating and improving the websites of different government organs in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. My work was to help with the implementations of some patterns a guy was making, but I end…
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Seriema
December 01, 2005
ThumbView celebrates 1 year old!
Yay! \0/ Today is ThumbView's first Birthday! *gives out caek and pi*

I wish I could celebrate with a ThumbView 1.1 or 2.0, but alas... I can't. There are plans for a update but I don't have time right now. So instead, I updated the website to conform to XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.0. As well as added a RSS…
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Seriema
November 26, 2005
Instant thumbnails in YOUR application! (sponsored by ThumbView)
After writing two samples on how to connect to ThumbView to use it to generate thumbnails for a C# application I got the superb question "Can't I just use whatever Windows is using?". ThumbView registers itself with Windows because Windows has support for shell-extensions such as thumbnail generato…
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Seriema
November 11, 2005
Cryptomnesia induced programming


DrunkenCoders RPG tech demo (2002)


Seriemas RPG competition entry (2003)

While writing a paper on the Ego and the Self, as described by Carl G. Jung, I came across a very interesting phenomena called cryptomnesia.

This has happened very clearly to me once and has probably happened to most of yo…
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Seriema
October 22, 2005
Simple context-menu extension. Part 2 - batching
Updated 2006-02-16: In step 10, it should be 85%% and not 85%. % works as the escape character \, if you want that actual character you'll need two.

What?
In my last journal entry I wrote how to add a menu item in the context menu that calls a commandline tool and passes some arguments. Today I'll sh…
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Seriema
October 21, 2005
Simple context-menu extension. Part 1 - commandline tool redirection
Updated 2006-02-16: In step 10, it should be 85%% and not 85%. % works as the escape character \, if you want that actual character you'll need two.

What?
Do you have some command line you usually use with files? Like HL2 modding where you have to compile the model through a commandline, or creating …
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Seriema
October 17, 2005
You must not have desires for my ass
So while arguing with a friend of mine, who claimed that God prohibits alcohol in the Ten Commandments, I went to Wikipedia to solve the discussion. No alcohol is mentioned in the commandments. But while looking, I found this a bit funny.

Quote:
Commandment nr 10
"and you shall not desire your neighbo…
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Seriema
October 11, 2005
SIBGRAPI day 2
Visualizacao e Interacoes - Cartoon Rendering para Inspecao de Maquetes Eletronicas de Modelos Industrials
Jeronimo Venetillo, Waldemar Celes

...slept =/

Invited Talk - Markerless Motion Capture
Rick Parent (Ohio State University, USA)

This was a very interesting talk on "mocap" without the use of those…
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Seriema
October 11, 2005
SIBGRAPI day 1
Bem vindo (Welcome) to my small SIBGRAPI column! I'm not really uploading on the right day, since it started on sunday 9/10 but with my limited Internet access and the sunny beach 50m from the hotel; this is the best I could do. Hope you like it! ^_^

Morning tutorial - GPU-Based Volume Rendering of …
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Seriema
October 06, 2005
brazilian SIGGRAPH
On friday I'll be traveling to Natal, Brazil, where I'll be atending the brazilian version of SIGGRAPH called SIBGRAPI (homepage)

I'll be covering the event a bit so any tips on HOW and WHAT to cover is greatly appreciated!
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Seriema
September 01, 2005
Snack Tutorial
Let's face it. All good programmers have a bag of tricks they use in their daily work. I'm gonna let you in on a secret that will boost your coding performance by an incredible zillion percent!*

Chocolate peanuts!
brazilian home made recipe

Ingredients
12-14 soup spoons of Sugar
2 soup spoons of Cocoa p…
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Seriema
August 29, 2005
secret project
OK so I've been "working" on this project for school. Defining a few User Interface design patterns for E-Goverments, more especificly: the goverment of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

So if anyone's interested at bashing me for only writing about 10 lines in about 4 months, feel free :P

Link HERE. U…
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Seriema
August 14, 2005
How far do YOU have to be entertained?
The chat with the author of the book Beyond Reality was just in #gamedev and everyone asked a bunch of questions, especially me.

I found it to be pretty interesting, although the author had some politician blood running through his veins when answering questions. The text was right there, but it did…
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Seriema
August 12, 2005
Man and machine! Power Xtreme!
So I have to write what courses I'm taking here in Brazil and kinda justify them to my school in Sweden... Which is pretty hard since they f'ed up my application, putting me with the bachelors people even though I'm taking my master. Thus giving me acess to some funky non-computerish courses. Espec…
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Seriema
August 08, 2005
a little Bling
I've been a bit quite about Bling! late, my deepest apologies ;)

It's been a bit slow since the vacation ended :(

It's still not finished, heck I don't even consider it out of alpha (proof of concept).

The Bling! logo is almost done, need to fix the diamonds and see what I can do about the gold. Also …
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Seriema
August 07, 2005
EnumResolutions (Windows)
[edit:] updated source 8/8-05

So friendly EDI from Etheral Darkness Interactive (a.k.a. Edi Did It) asked me if I could make an enumerator for resolutions, since on my little lappy I get repeated resolutions (like 4 "different" 800x600 where two is 16bpp and two is 32bpp) and we were both curious on…
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Seriema
August 03, 2005
Game is rated A, for American.
American

Titles rated American (A) have content suitable only for americans. These products may include detailed graphic depictions of violence, weapons usage and bomb manufacturing as well as military tactics. But does not contain any nudity nor sexual references. American products are not intended…
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Seriema
July 31, 2005
IRL FPS! Just like Quake!
ok maybe actually it's more like Counter-Strike, but that doesn't sound half as cool =P

I spent half my summer visiting my family here in Brazil, boy did I do some fun stuff! =D Like... learning how to use guns
ok you may run away screaming now ;)

First of, my cousins Taurus 938 .380


Second was a Tauru…
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Seriema
July 16, 2005
My secret project: Bling!
Well for the #gamedev/#graphicsdev/#physicsdev people this might not be a surprise but... I'm currently refitting my raytracer into a real-time raytracer, to use in a Pong! remake! =]

I'll be traveling a bit, visiting family, for the coming week. So I'm writing this in hope for responses and ideas.

I…
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Seriema
July 13, 2005
mySword(1)
I finally got around to model something, that article here on GDNet was really sweet! I'm just so proud! :D Can't wait till I have time to texture it with part 2 of the article series!

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Seriema
July 12, 2005
Washu on aggregate types
I wrote this all by myself! I researched for a week and did alot of coding to try this all out

"how can i add an element into vector" simple just do: vector v;
v += 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9;
...
* snk_kid|Sugoi runs for the hills
snk_kid|Sugoi, that's cute... but isn't that part of Boost?
* snk_kid|Sugoi i…
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Seriema
July 10, 2005
The "what if?" mantra (aka YAGNI)
Thank you to Fruny for pointing out that this has already been defined as YAGNI and a example is BigDesignUpFront, both part of Extreme Programming. I'm not gonna delete this journal entry though, took to long to write :P

Any comments on this type of journal posts are more than welcome! I might make…
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