swf, .net, and other silly things
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This is a quick test app to see what all is involved with making a layout tool. It is actually quite a bit easier that I feared. I’m using a greyscale backing image to figure out what is clicked and dragged, and the swf2xna base libraries for swf vector support. I have a long list [...]
I recently watched ‘Fog of War‘, a movie long interview with Robert McNamara (Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam war). It was pretty compelling, he was definitely a smart ‘numbers guy’, and thought like a programmer. He talks about his early work in …
I’ve spend the last few weeks learning Objective C with XCode, it has been reasonably fun. I find the language a little rough and thus the IDE a bit wanting, but it compiles fast and the simulator is good which goes a long way. In the end developing a game with it isn’t that different …
Yuriko and I are going to Idaho to visit some great friends this week. Always love the stark beauty of Western North Dakota/Montana, and the spectacular scenes of the Rockies. Made all the better with such good company at the other end. I finished the Max3002 board yesterday, I must say the …
You often hear how much you can learn by studying a new programming language, but it seems you hear far fewer details on what you actually might learn. One reason is people often learn a similar C based language to the one they know, so it is more domain learning than anything computer science …
So last week I deleted my Twitter account after being on there for a few years. I didn’t rage quit or anything, actually I really liked all the people I followed along, and I enjoyed Twitter to the end. Still, the feeling of wanting to quit has been growing over time, not 100% sure why, [...]
I was going to make a bubble etcher today when Google led me to this: A way better way to etch.
This is from the people who make the excellent transfer paper I use. They claimed you get way better etches using a sponge with Ferric Chloride on it than even a bubble tank! I tried [...]
The scroller ball stopped working on the Mac mouse, and I was a bit surprised to find that every single person in the world has had this problem twice. Once I broke the glue seal (ugh!) and disassembled the wheel I could see it was cloged with lint. What I couldn’t see is how it [...]
Why are dogs easier to train than monkeys? Surely it isn’t because they are smarter, they aren’t. It is because it takes less to keep a dog amused. Yeah I’ll roll over one more time, God this is fun. Oh, a biscut too? This is f.u.c.k.ing heaven. Monkeys? Don’t really feel …
Our Sleepwalker game in now open source. It was built with Swf2XNA and it a good example of how you can build an XNA game using Flash and C#. You can find the source and more info here: http://wiki.github.com/debreuil/Swf2XNA/sleepwalker
Game developer, mostly kids games. Electronics, microcontrollers and FPGAs for fun. http://blog.debreuil.com
@deckchairs ha, I still lurk here on occasion : ). Really nice to meet up at the showcase - coffee sounds great!@debreuil
near Miami Manitoba Canada
