September 25, 2005
Yeah, mornings rock when I don't have to work.
Wednesday night we had a few tornados in the area, I lost power at about 7pm that night. Nothing big really, a few trees down and the usual. The damage from this was nothing compared to what is currently going on in the gulf. This is really about how…
Wednesday night we had a few tornados in the area, I lost power at about 7pm that night. Nothing big really, a few trees down and the usual. The damage from this was nothing compared to what is currently going on in the gulf. This is really about how…
September 18, 2005
Ok, that was too easy... I love the mornings!! Coffee is my best friend until about noon, when my stomach starts to boil and I have to switch over to something like water, pop, or juice. But for the two hours I have left before that happens, I will work on removing an item from the file, and inse…
September 18, 2005
Looking back, it makes sence that the data blocks are compressed. I was able to get SharpZipLib to do exactly what I wanted, and in minimal code. Really just a function call to the inflater and deflater, check the return code for errors and all was good.
Extracting a file out of the archive is wor…
Extracting a file out of the archive is wor…
September 13, 2005
And not long after that I bought GTR, and then a Logitech MOMO Racing wheel. I can't really say enough about how great a nice wheel is for racing game fans. So I won't.
I will tell you that it finally got me up to coding again though. I have not really done alot of programming lately, so I decide…
I will tell you that it finally got me up to coding again though. I have not really done alot of programming lately, so I decide…
August 07, 2005
The chapter on transactions seemed short. I guess that they just sound complicated. More likely they will get back to it later, and this is juat an introduction to them. Other sites have given the book some bad reviews, but I don't really care. Most of them were just talking about code errors. …
August 05, 2005
Working through the first few chapters of a book can be interesting. What happened to me, was not really paying attention to what the book was trying to teach me at that time. It was just going over opening and closing connections. The sample code did some other things, where we had to write som…
August 04, 2005
After my drive crashed, and summer time hit in.. I had no time. I took 2 vacations, one in June and one in July for the 4th. In June my and the GF went to Lakeside, Ohio. Drove there, and back. Well I rode in the back of a Suburban, in total we spent 3 full days driving. Lakeside is cool, but …
August 04, 2005
I finally bought an ADO.NET book, found this one at Barnes & Nobel and decided to pick it up. I have no way to rate, or review it because It's my first book on ADO.NET. With that being true, I want to say that I do like how it gets you into the creation of objects quickly. Minimal setup time…
May 28, 2005
Yeah, I have been busy playing games. I feel a bit distant from game programming right now. I think I should widen my skill set. I have done most of my programming with from-scratch source, I really need to get more comfortable working with different API styles. I am working with .NET stuff rig…
April 30, 2005
User input has been added. I might have found why I was having upload problems. Still at work, so I will make this one short.
Quote:
Min bet: $5 Max bet: $200
Decks: 4 Saturation: 0.35%
Player please give me your bet: 80
Player bets $80
** Shuffled Deck **
Dealer: C10 H3 Points: 13
Player: S7 C10 Point…
April 28, 2005
I have alot of the little bugs worked out of the game logic code. Some new stuff was added for a computer player AI with Basic Stratigy plus a High-Low count. I was going to add input so the player wasnt always a computer player, but I didnt really try too hard. I was busy cleaning up the rules …
April 19, 2005
Hmm, perhaps I was influenced by outside sources without their disgression. Whatever it was it made me take my shuffle method, and redesign it to work with operator* along side of the operator/. So now I can split the deck another time easily and clearly in the code.
void Deck::Shuffle()
{
unsigned…
April 18, 2005
Building this deck of cards is pretty fun. I have what I consider to be a pretty good foundation thus far. I spent some time today playing with what I wanted to do to my code. I do not have a compiler with me at work, so I always have errors when I get home and try to build. I always rely on th…
April 14, 2005
My ISP has been flakey, the name server will just start timing out, but it is still online because it can be pinged. I want to find a nameserver I can set to avoid having to use my ISPs. Oh well, every time I get pissed and decide to call, it starts working again. That means I have had time to p…
April 04, 2005
Templates give me this feeling, like you can do anything with them. But I feel like I dont know what to do with them. So I have been just writing generic algorithms, the first few I picked up off of DADS 'M' section, and the rest have been just off the top of my head ones. Nothing really special…
March 28, 2005
Easter weekend, I guess it was a vacation because I had 4 days off from work. And I spend all of them out of town. So I also decided that I won't really post another big long explination of my world view. But I did want to get the jist of it out.
We shouldnt have a section of news each week that …
We shouldnt have a section of news each week that …
March 21, 2005
Does not look good at this point.
Nothing I am going to say here is all that original, not im my opinion. However I feel that alot of it is mostly unheard.
First off, I think we are currently a bacteria on this planet, but at a much higher level then we think of when we hear bacteria. I think it st…
Nothing I am going to say here is all that original, not im my opinion. However I feel that alot of it is mostly unheard.
First off, I think we are currently a bacteria on this planet, but at a much higher level then we think of when we hear bacteria. I think it st…
March 16, 2005
Yeah, so.. I didnt get anywhere with that tutorial. I think it was more of an exercise in how to install dependencys for Ogre. Its pretty simple at first, I just need CEGUI. However that little tool has 3 dependencys, boost, something, and something else. Lets say I only made it thru boost. D…
March 15, 2005
My girlfriend record American Idol with the DVR so she can watch it with her friends. It is on TV at 7pm here, for one hour. I get home at 6:40pm and usualy turn on the TV for some background noise as I putz around on the computer. But I cannot have the TV on when that show is being aired, at le…
March 03, 2005
Being new to trying out the game development thing, I had to take notice to johnhatten here. I think of stuff I want to add to my game, but I find myself thinking of all the things I have to impliment to make it work. So I have decided to read the signs, OGRE 1.0 was just released, john told me t…
March 03, 2005
I had a wild hair this morning, and decided to write a quick timer class. Works off of QueryPerformanceCounter/Timer functions. This was basiclly a test to learn how to use the two functions. Seems to be working ok.
You can use, comment, criticize, or flame my design at will.
You can use, comment, criticize, or flame my design at will.
class MTimer
{
public:
…
February 28, 2005
Hey, why not download the newest version? It has mouse support now. work_dbg.exe is windowed mode, debug build. Mouse does not always reacquire properly if you Alt+Tab. work.exe is fullscreen, release build. Alt+F4 to exit still.
Happy keys:
S - Stats, framerate and resolution.
W - Wireframe disp…
Happy keys:
S - Stats, framerate and resolution.
W - Wireframe disp…
February 27, 2005
I don't like cold weather, it makes me not want to go places.
I spend my days off at home, I want to go places.
T.V. Sucks, they should not charge for cable. The sponcers do this already.
I pay way too much for Cable + Internet.
I get board easy.
I hate being board.
I smoke too many cigarettes when I dr…
I spend my days off at home, I want to go places.
T.V. Sucks, they should not charge for cable. The sponcers do this already.
I pay way too much for Cable + Internet.
I get board easy.
I hate being board.
I smoke too many cigarettes when I dr…
February 26, 2005
I didn't really get alot done, as far as lines of code. I actually have less code now. Last time I was working on my project, I was trying to get mouse input to affect the paddle movement. I was writing my first DirectInput mouse reading function, I expected it to be like Win32, giving the scree…
February 22, 2005
if(a++)
mov ebx,edi
inc edi
test ebx,ebx
je 0000001F
a--;
dec edi
if(++b)
inc esi
je 00000023
--b;
dec esi
Then I started reading some more, and noticed a strange initilization of 'a', atleast it is strange to me.
i…
February 22, 2005
Okay, it has been a while since I have uploaded the current state of the project, so I did that just now. Download if you like. And if you do try it, use Alt+F4 to exit... sorry. You get 3 lives. If you clear all the blocks, it starts a new round and adds another row. Sometimes the ball gets s…
February 20, 2005
Well, I bought Half-Life 2 yesterday. Mostly for the Counter Strike 'mod' that is included. If its bundled with the software, I dont really consider it a mod, but you get it. I play as hatekick, phear me. ;) Naw, I still suck.
Long story short, I'm still a shitty coder I guess. I need to rewrite …
Long story short, I'm still a shitty coder I guess. I need to rewrite …
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