Having played around with DosBox lately, I decided to do some more digging in my archives and found some stuff from the early 90s, pre-university era. Back then I was programming in QuickBASIC, which was awesome at the time. I found a half a dozen programs: a game of Yahtzee that I wrote and my… Continue reading it's old, but it still works!
Category: Programming
RotateAVI v0.91beta
It’s up on elbeno.com. If you got a digital camera for Xmas (or otherwise), check it out. An easy way to rotate avi movies.
RotateAVI
Your new digital camera takes great videos, right? And you have a nice 2GB flash/SD/whatever card in there so you can take plenty. But there’s one problem: you have lots of movies in portrait format, where you were holding the camera on its side, because after all that is how the major axis of a… Continue reading RotateAVI
Why programming is fun
This week I have been working with a colleague on optimising a piece of code. Last week, what we started out with (a first implementation) was taking over 80ms to run in my test case. We had confidence that the overall algorithm was the correct one for the job, so even without that (usually most… Continue reading Why programming is fun
a maths day
Since is always posting about his antics bending Maya to his will, I felt like sharing my working day. Without going into detail about what I’m working on (which is still hush-hush until it’s announced), I can say that today I did more maths than I’ve done in a long time. I wrote some code… Continue reading a maths day
BSOL
I am currently doing work on PS3, and our renderer by default colours the screen blue. So when the game starts up without crashing, before any data is loaded and displayed, we at least get what I like to refer to as the “Blue Screen of Life”.
a nightmare
Last night I dreamt that the IT guys at work took my home PC and “upgraded” it with Windows Vista. They didn’t seem to understand that I don’t use Windows – my remonstrations fell on deaf ears. In other news, I spent the weekend playing with fractals. When fractals were first popular, I was a… Continue reading a nightmare
after an hour's fiddling…
Got GTK+/gtkmm projects compiling under Win32. Eclipse (CDT) doesn’t really know about pkg-config. So in order to get CDT to drive the command line correctly I had to put the `pkg-config –libs gtkmm-2.4` as part of a -l directive to the linker. It doesn’t work as just a link option since that puts it before… Continue reading after an hour's fiddling…
Doxygen and C++: <i>not</i> a marriage made in heaven
I briefly interrupt your scheduled browsing… Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, and D. So it says on the website, and so it is. It’s also a Good Thing, most people would assume. Doxygen has its roots in Javadoc,… Continue reading Doxygen and C++: <i>not</i> a marriage made in heaven
Atomic brain to power, fingers to speed…
I’m not a touch typer, but I am a pretty fast (8-finger or so) typer after 20 years of keyboarding, and I don’t actually have to look at the keys much. Of course, most of the kind of typing that I do is quite different from actual written English – it tends to involve a… Continue reading Atomic brain to power, fingers to speed…