February 12, 2006
I'm sure you've sat down at your desk with the best intentions of being productive and ticking off more items on your todo list, but somehow you get side-tracked. This is almost a daily occurence with me, as everything suddenly becomes a million times more interesting than what I'm working on(regar…
February 05, 2006
Whenever I boot a computer from cold, I'm always slightly nervy until the OS had loaded, this is probably from the number of times seemingly OK equipment has just coughed up blood. Well, today was the debut of my laptop HD problem... The BIOS fails to detect the drive, so it spits out the immortal …
January 16, 2006
The installer tells me...
"Error 2203. There's something wrong with this package. kthxbye."
The log file tells me...
"Ack something bad happened. Bye."
But what really happened...
"You noob. The G:\Temp\ folder you recently created doesn't have SYSTEM full access priviledges. Go download XP Home if you …
"Error 2203. There's something wrong with this package. kthxbye."
The log file tells me...
"Ack something bad happened. Bye."
But what really happened...
"You noob. The G:\Temp\ folder you recently created doesn't have SYSTEM full access priviledges. Go download XP Home if you …
January 12, 2006
Well the time for exams has sprung up on me again, like some cunningly placed jungle trap. And naturally my response to this immense burden of work is to wander off and start a side project, which probably isn't one of the best ideas, but it keeps me off the streets(being 21 and all...). Anyway mor…
September 19, 2005
Today I've been working on a texture manager as part of my library of useful components which I'll hopefully use on my next project. Now I don't want to delve into how it works, because that's not what I want to blather on about.. what I *do* want to talk about is test-first development.
Step 1. Dra…
Step 1. Dra…
August 22, 2005
Over the past couple of days I've been looking at some low-level network APIs(so this disregards behemoths like Raknet, etc), in an attempt to find something to start using for a remote debugger/python interface(sorta like a remote telnet session for any projects I may be working on). So obviously …
June 15, 2005
Grrrr....
The above code raises an exception when attempting to create a new class Y. The order of attributes is M, X*. In the constructor, x is initialised with nx, then m is initialised wit…
class X { }
class M
{
public:
M(X* x) {}
}
class Y
{
private:
M m;
X* x;
public:
Y(X* nx):
x(nx),
m(x) {}
}
The above code raises an exception when attempting to create a new class Y. The order of attributes is M, X*. In the constructor, x is initialised with nx, then m is initialised wit…
June 09, 2005
An answer:Google Desktop Search.
Not only is it incredibly easy to set up, installing the correct plugins will give you a simple versioning system for all your projects files. I'm unsure as to the number of cached versions GDS will store for a particular file, but I'm at 8 already, and you presumabl…
Not only is it incredibly easy to set up, installing the correct plugins will give you a simple versioning system for all your projects files. I'm unsure as to the number of cached versions GDS will store for a particular file, but I'm at 8 already, and you presumabl…
May 29, 2005
*Wouldn't it be cool if* a physics engine could be used to construct a working steam train? Afaik the components missing from today's physics engines are the notions of temperatures and pressures. Ok, yeah, the whole principle of a steam engine is pressure and temperature, but I think it'd be cool …
May 28, 2005
I'm pretty sure I'm not just imagining things(unfortunately) when I talk about explanations given by maths lecturers.. This is what I've noticed:
- Easy stuff is drummed into our heads in great detail, far more than is necessary. The steps in easy calculations are too drawn out, and look almost redu…
- Easy stuff is drummed into our heads in great detail, far more than is necessary. The steps in easy calculations are too drawn out, and look almost redu…
May 25, 2005
I took time out yesterday to reflect on what I've managed through my many years of coding as a hobby, and it's pretty pathetic really, with respect to projects completed, and knowledge gained. Sure, I know a fair deal in about a dozen languages, but I feel that I really need to sort out my coding d…
May 17, 2005
Recently I've been working like crazy on my second year group project at uni, and i've managed to (inavertently) pull two 80~ hour weeks :( Now, I've managed to get soooo much done, we're definitely in the top couple of groups, but it's been so tiring, and my diet has temporarily shifted to consist…
April 10, 2005
Omg. well, I went to go and see Trent and his posse perform at the Astoria in London on the 30th, and it was so amazing I actually nearly passed out from excitement(and lack of oxygen/water), anyway, yeah, it was cool.. and all you NIN fans out there that didn't bother/haven't bothered to get ticke…
February 03, 2005
MAKEPROJ v1.0 : Get it here
I know how many people hate so much to faff around with the project settings just to get a quick prototype SDL project to compile... and here is the answer(almost). You can create a new project straight from a template, specifying which libraries you want to use, whether …
I know how many people hate so much to faff around with the project settings just to get a quick prototype SDL project to compile... and here is the answer(almost). You can create a new project straight from a template, specifying which libraries you want to use, whether …
January 23, 2005
I dislike the majority of exams, they want me to regurgitate whatever I've been reading exactly as it was in the text book, and it's not particularly interesting either. I'm looking forward to my Systems Analysis and Design exam tomorrow, which is strange.. Primarily because from the past papers I'…
January 03, 2005
C++ Fourth Edition (McGraw Hill)
Design Patterns
Python In A Nutshell (O'Reilly)
The C++ Programming Language
Nothing better than eating through 2 months of food lazing out on the sofa at christmas half-watching a war film and reading a book on Design Patterns :)
Design Patterns
Python In A Nutshell (O'Reilly)
The C++ Programming Language
Nothing better than eating through 2 months of food lazing out on the sofa at christmas half-watching a war film and reading a book on Design Patterns :)
December 13, 2004
me ..<240miles>.. her, go figure :( She kissed another guy, and considers our relationship over, she wants to be "free and single", ...I'd much rather have one person for more than just one night that I can have a good time with. Oh well, there's "plenty more fish in the sea", whoever first s…
December 05, 2004
My trial version ran out :( And I felt so lonely... and naked... I couldn't look at myself in the mirror, or leave the house...I felt the world was ashamed of me for having crap Intellisense... ThenIboughtVAXandeverybodywashappytheend.
December 04, 2004
Through wanting to learn Python I've taken up a side project of developing a MUD server. Nothing much to show at the moment, but the code will be available from my webspace as I continue developing it. Note: There is *no* design that is going into this project, it's a totally Ad-Lib thing :)
December 01, 2004
Well my windows install decided to bork on me, which wasn't nice, and I don't have the install cd with me, it's at home :( But fortunately thanks to the very kind people at Microsoft, they gave me a free copy, well, my CompSci department did, yay!!
*group hug with Zanthos and the Academic Alliance p…
*group hug with Zanthos and the Academic Alliance p…
November 23, 2004
Hmm, this seems to have appeared from nowhere..
Map Generator
It's a quasi-lame badly coded 2D map generator, notice the file names =) This is only supposed to be a little prototype for something far more advanced, no, really :P For 45mins work it's not that bad. Anyway, Prolog lab class...
Map Generator
It's a quasi-lame badly coded 2D map generator, notice the file names =) This is only supposed to be a little prototype for something far more advanced, no, really :P For 45mins work it's not that bad. Anyway, Prolog lab class...
November 22, 2004
First post! Yay! :)
Well I've finally managed to get myself this shiny GDNet+ subscription, and am so glad I did because I've fallen in love with the Christmas site theme =) My SDL/TrueType/OpenGL font system is coming along swimmingly, got Italic and multi-coloured text output to be finished and te…
Well I've finally managed to get myself this shiny GDNet+ subscription, and am so glad I did because I've fallen in love with the Christmas site theme =) My SDL/TrueType/OpenGL font system is coming along swimmingly, got Italic and multi-coloured text output to be finished and te…
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