I’m a supporter of Star Citizen, an online space game currently in development. Some people have put up websites that let you create custom images related to the game. Here’s a few of them I’ve made. A Citizen Card for my original pledge. A Citizen Card for my current pledge level. A title for for …
Today I picked my first cherry tomato. It was delicious. Looking forward to more!
Surprise! I’m making a new post! Behold my garden! Yeah, OK, so it’s not exactly your traditional garden, but hey, I live in a motorhome, so it’s not like I have a real backyard to plant things in. Initially I wasn’t going to grow much of anything this year because I had thought I …
The past month I’ve been learning about the Unity game engine, reading the manual, going through tutorials, and setting up some test projects to tinker on my own. This week I finally felt comfortable enough to do a real game of my own from scratch, so I decided to start with a good old classic …
A recent post on a forum got me wondering how much I really need Windows for gaming, so I decided to see what games I have installed on Linux versus Windows. To my surprise I have far more games installed on Linux! However, the games I play most often tend to be only available for …
Recently I was talking to a colleague who is still in school and he mentioned a new blog post he had written about string search. He had implemented a brute force search and so I told him about faster algorithms that he should consider, specifically mentioning the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm. He read up on it at …
I don’t normally do political posts, but I like this image. Vote for Bernie!
A common simple interview question is to explain the difference between “call by value” and “call by reference”. This refers to the way arguments are passed to functions. In call by value, a copy of the argument is made and given to the function so that any changes made to the argument affect only the …
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This problem is almost too simple to mention, but it has actually been asked of me in an interview, so I’ll go ahead and address it. Problem: detect if a given string is a palindrome. Be sure to ignore case, spaces, and punctuation characters. Solution: Start by setting references to the first and last characters. …
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