September, 2010
How to become great
I was reading an aigamedev.com article about the gaming industry and I stumbled across a piece of knowledge that I feel was very valuable. It’s something I try to do everyday and I believe you should to if you want to become good at what you do. “Embrace diversity, and try to find something useful …
VS2010 Extension – Better Fix Mixed Tabs
I frequently deal with code that has tabs in it that needs to be converted over to code without tabs, preferably without losing any formatting. Unfortunately I have yet to find an extension to do this. I thought an extension called “Fix Mixed Tabs” would do the trick, but it only untabifies or tabifies the …
Adding “edit with” to context sensitive menu
I manually installed notepad++ into my dropbox folder so I could use it anywhere. Unfortunately, it didn’t add the “Edit with Notepad++” entry for the context sensitive right-click menu. This trick works for almost any application that accepts a file name on the command line as the first argument. To see if your application has …
Header Guards
A lot of people don’t know this, but #pragma once is actually an optimization. It is faster than using the #ifndef blocks. But you’re in luck because you can safely write portable code with it, in case the compiler doesn’t recognize #pragma once by doing this: #pragma once #ifndef HEADERFILE_H #define HEADERFILE_H class Classname { …
Books I’ve read before 2009
3/5 – Introduction to Game Development This books has a little to say about a lot of the different areas of game development. If you don’t know anything about the game industry or how things work, it would probably be a very good read. The sections that helped me personally were the physics and the …
Corporate America == lack of morality
I’m going to rant because I’m pissed off. I’m going to talk a little bit about how large companies and corporations hide behind their contacts to avoid having any moral obligations. What pisses me off is that when a company does something that’s morally wrong, or just not nice, no one individual or group at …
Books I’ve read in 2009
4/5 – Advanced Lighting and Materials with Shaders Discusses a ton of different BRDF’s that I never knew existed. This book is really book and meant for advanced graphics programmers. There are a couple of things I dislike about the book: 1) Math formulas are glazed over and never really discussed, so you have to …
Joomla to WordPress migration
I moved my entire website over from Joomla to WordPress because I find wordpress easier to use. The interface is a lot cleaner and elegant. With Joomla, for example, I kept getting confused between a “section” and a “category” and it REQUIRES you to use both. WordPress just has “categories” and that’s all I need …
Free Books Online
CG TutorialGPU GemsGPU Gems 2GPU Gems 3ShaderX SeriesGameDev.net D3D Book The 3D Graphics PipelineLinkers and Loaders
Joomla2WordPressV4
Azeem Khan wrote a script that allows the user to export data from joomla and move it over to wordpress. Unfortunately it didn’t work with the latest: Joomla: 1.5.20 Stable and WordPress: 3.0.1. So I extended it, you can find the script here: Joomla2WordPressV4 Azeem Khan’s site is here: http://azeemkhan.info/
