It’s now being reported that Dennis Ritchie has died. All programmers owe him a great debt of gratitude. He invented C and helped create Unix, and thus in many ways is one of the fathers of modern computing. #include <stdio.h> main() { printf("goodbye, world"); } So long, Dennis! We’ll miss you!.
Archive of posts filed under the General category.
I’m glad too Richard
Apparently, Richard Stallman has offended people by not worshiping Steve Jobs. In his blog, Stallman wrote the following Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, “I’m not glad he’s [...]
Source code repository now online
I’ve set up a Mercurial source code repository. Henceforth, any code that I publish will be included here for convenience. When you click on a project on the home page, you are first taken to the changelog for that project where you can see the recent activity. In the menu on the left, click one [...]
So much to learn!
I’ve been quiet, but I’ve not been idle. Unfortunately I have nothing to show at the moment but my ignorance. As I delve deeper in game programming I realize more and more how huge the topic is! I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately: The OpenGL Superbible, 5th ed. OpenGL Shading Language, 3rd ed. [...]
A long hiatus
Well, my website turned into a cob-web site over the past few months. My apologies, but I’ve been busy at a new job. It hasn’t been entirely unproductive – I now hold an RHCE certification – but my game dev studies have been neglected. I’ve turned away from SDL (and the mentioned but never delivered [...]
3D Rendering Breakthrough!
According to this report in The Onion there’s been a breakthrough in graphics rendering that will finally allow game designers to depict women with normal sized breasts! This is an exciting breakthrough that I’m sure many gamers are looking forward too.
Not Dead Yet
I’m not dead, I’ve just been really busy. I started a new job this month and have been having a steep learning curve. It’s not hard – tech support for a webhosting company – but I’ve been out of the webhosting industry for a few years, so I’ve been having to relearn a lot of [...]
Secure Connections Supported
By the way – I do not have a store bought SSL certificate, but I do have a self-signed certificate installed, so you can use SSL to connect to this stie: https://eldalin.com It is a self-signed certificate, so it’s no good for verifying that you really are connecting to my site and not a spoof, [...]
So wrong
This is so wrong! Want to leave a logic bomb in program? Hide this in a header file somewhere and watch the dev team go crazy trying to track down the problems it creates. #define sizeof(x) (rand() % sizeof(x) + 1) Via a comment on The Daily WTF. Filed away for use someday when I’m [...]
Apple floats closing the Mac
I’m not an Apple user. Back in the 1980′s I had an Apple ][+ and enjoyed it greatly. I would have loved to have been able to upgrade to a Apple IIgs, but I was in high school when it came out, and by the time I was in college it was clear that Apple's [...]