January 12, 2005
The new Mac mini has been released, and I have the horrible urge to get one. I've wanted to try development on OS X for a while now, and the Mac mini should be powerful enough (and then some) for the kinds of things I want to do on it. And it has DVI out, so I could use it to test the DVI input on …
January 11, 2005
Random gripe: I recently got a Toshiba SD-V592 DVD/VCR player. It works great, except there's massive white crush on the HDMI output. Right now I'm using a HDMI to DVI cable to my HDTV to run the signal and I'm wondering if it's a problem with the deinterlacer, the converter cable, the DVI input in…
January 03, 2005
Amongst other things, I'm an RPG nerd, both computer RPGs and pencil and paper RPGs. The former is immediately obvious if you consider the fact that I decided to draft a 10 year plan to make my own RPG (and I'm only a year behind schedule now too).
But a lot of my inspiration comes from pencil and p…
But a lot of my inspiration comes from pencil and p…
December 26, 2004
I was working on a C++ project that I just started adding embedded Python support to, and I while testing the Python exception handling I kept getting these strange errors Fatal Python error: unexpected exception during garbage collection when generating Python exceptions, and I just couldn't figur…
December 25, 2004
One of the things I got for christmas was a shiny new 27" Widescreen LCD HD TV. So what's one of the first things I do? Hook it up to my laptop and run nethack. I'm such a geek.
December 23, 2004
So I gave my mother a MP3 player for Christmas. I neglected to realize that I also implicitly gave her lifetime free tech support (me).
December 21, 2004
Interesting observation for the day:
In C++ beginner programmers often utilize the default behaviour of the compiler created copy constructor and assignment operator, often without realizing it. Eventually this practice causes problems (See the Rule of Three). Later the programmer develops an avers…
In C++ beginner programmers often utilize the default behaviour of the compiler created copy constructor and assignment operator, often without realizing it. Eventually this practice causes problems (See the Rule of Three). Later the programmer develops an avers…
December 20, 2004
If you have a milestone birthday (turning 40, for example) do not hide this fact from your co-workers. For if you do, you shall pay for it later. Better to suffer mild harrassment on the day it happens than to get your cubicle covered in black plastic and filled to overflowing with black 40th birth…
December 13, 2004
Well, I found out today that a Rubik's dodecahedron was created and marketed under the name "Megaminx." With a name like that it's no wonder I never found it before. And with the right name, I was able to find a algorithm to solve it, though I'll still probably work on my own version just out of sh…
December 12, 2004
I've trying to work on an algorithmic solver for dodecahellspawn, instead of the current roll-back-the-moves method, and boy has it been a mess. I think my group theory lessons were much too long ago for this.
Unlike the Honeycomb puzzle, the moves on the dodecahellspawn forms a non-abelian group, w…
Unlike the Honeycomb puzzle, the moves on the dodecahellspawn forms a non-abelian group, w…
December 12, 2004
I finished writing a simple SDL program to test the theory and implementation on my math for Honeycomb, and it all checks out - at least for maps as high as level 85, the max level in Honeycomb. Of course doing it by hand is a pain, and having a computer automate it is no fun, so I'm closing the bo…
December 11, 2004
The matrix is invertible.
//snip//
(For a left multiply by a column vector where the upper left honey cell corresponds to the 0 element, upper right cell is the 15th and the lower right is 255.)
edit:Well, I had posted the inverse here, but the code tag breaks the forums cell and the source tag tries …
//snip//
(For a left multiply by a column vector where the upper left honey cell corresponds to the 0 element, upper right cell is the 15th and the lower right is 255.)
edit:Well, I had posted the inverse here, but the code tag breaks the forums cell and the source tag tries …
December 11, 2004
November 25, 2004
If no one hears from me in the near future it's because I died of tryptophan poisoining. But what a way to go.
Yay, turkey day!
Yay, turkey day!
November 21, 2004
I was trying out Alias Sketchbook Pro again. The first time I tried it was just when I was inspecting all the software that came with the Tablet PC, but now that I've sat down and really played with it, it seems like a really nice package. I'm not sure how much of this is just being able to use the…
November 20, 2004
Well, I didn't get much BREW work done today. Just the basic installation, compiled and ran a App Wizard applcation. Most of the rest of my time I devoted to trying to get my hardware to work properly.
I picked up a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo: the Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite for Bluetooth pa…
I picked up a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo: the Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite for Bluetooth pa…
November 20, 2004
Well today I spent too much time not getting Painter 8 to work with my Tablet PC. I know the tablet has pressure sensitive input on the stylus since the trial version of Alias Sketchbook worked fine.
Painter 9 recently came out, so maybe I'll grab that and see if it will support my tablet better. Ju…
Painter 9 recently came out, so maybe I'll grab that and see if it will support my tablet better. Ju…
November 18, 2004
I wasn't going to enter the Qualcomm contest for the simple reason that I couldn't think of a game that would be appropriate, but I think I've come up with an idea.
Getting it up to quality in the two weeks left might be a challenge, but I've got the weekend free, and Thanksgiving is pretty much wi…
Getting it up to quality in the two weeks left might be a challenge, but I've got the weekend free, and Thanksgiving is pretty much wi…
November 17, 2004
There are some days when I want my compiler to be a little more strict than normal. Today I was working with someone else's C++ code, and it used std::string in many places. So far so good. Except he he was comparing the result of string::find() against -1 instead of string::npos. This is not so go…
November 16, 2004
So, I finally got around to starting to implement syntax highlighting for source blocks, so like a good programmer my first instinct was to look for components to reuse. Since I'm using C#, I first looked for C# syntax highlighting programs, but I couldn't find one with the level of customization I…
November 15, 2004
I was going through my backups and found this image. It's a "map" of the Win32 address space for an article I was writing, but never got around to finishing. There are missing details, oversimplifies the initial heap and completly ignores multithreading and the /3GB switch.
However, it's good enoug…
However, it's good enoug…
November 14, 2004
So today's my birthday.
Not much planned. Going to have dinner with the family unit. My mother aparently has decided to cook enough turkey to give the entire county tryptophan poisoning.
I think I'll go out and by myself some birthday presents now, which will probably involve a USB TV Tuner for my la…
Not much planned. Going to have dinner with the family unit. My mother aparently has decided to cook enough turkey to give the entire county tryptophan poisoning.
I think I'll go out and by myself some birthday presents now, which will probably involve a USB TV Tuner for my la…
November 13, 2004
I'd just like to say that I really like my tablet PC.
On the development front I've started working on a syntax highlighting feature for the personal wiki. It'll pretty much look like the source box here on gamdev, though I think the syntax rules I'll use will be slightly different. Right now I plan…
On the development front I've started working on a syntax highlighting feature for the personal wiki. It'll pretty much look like the source box here on gamdev, though I think the syntax rules I'll use will be slightly different. Right now I plan…
November 12, 2004
I've been thinking about how to handle object embedding in the personal wiki project, as the current technique of intercepting the navigation with the BeforeNavigate event doesn't seem too happy.
The obvious solution is just to pop the embedded objects on the hard drive and access them with the file…
The obvious solution is just to pop the embedded objects on the hard drive and access them with the file…
November 11, 2004
Implementing IDocHostUIHandler for the form that I've embedded IE in for the personal wiki project was a lot less painful than I expected. It took about four minutes total to get the context menu handler running from creating the blank TLB file to the first working test. And it would have been less…
November 09, 2004
True story (sad): A few weeks ago I was approached to do a database program. I heard the basic proposal, and said that it didn't sound too bad. Today I attend my first meeting for the project (a warning sign right there) and my rough estimate is that the project is about three entire orders of magn…
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