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Notice: This is intended to involve only very basic concepts.

No matter the scope, most “game” programming these days involves moving pictures around on a computer screen, and performing this task can be very easy with a little basic math (specifically, trigonometry). Small two-dimensional graphics in games are ( Read more... )

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I have a particular love of IBM keyboards, both the clicky Model M (compact) as well as scissor-key ThinkPad keyboards. Neither of these, however, has a Windows key. This key is good for much more than popping up the Start menu, so I’d like to get it back. Also, I never use Caps Lock, and have always preferred ( Read more... )

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Some months ago, I tweaked a hip flexor during an impromptu trail race. I didn’t give the injury proper respect, instead drawing out my recovery much longer than it should have taken. Furthermore, adjustments in my stride resulted in development of a very annoying plantar fascia cyst.

Now, as I’m training my way back ( Read more... )

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I have two Macs, and I use iTunes on both of them. My music library is managed on my MacBook, but I want access to all of the music on my Mac Pro at home without having to stream it. What’s the easiest way to keep these synchronized? We’re dealing with a Unix, so rsync comes to the rescue:

1. Please back up your music ( Read more... )

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In the interest of speed, I’ll start with a list of truths I won’t be discussing at length:

1. Some day you will need to address a problem in someone else’s libraries without the luxury of patching and recompiling their code.
2. Most people know .NET reflection allows you to interact with types you didn’t have access to at ( Read more... )

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I want to keep this post short, so I won’t go into why you should design your code around interfaces, or why injecting dependencies at runtime is such a good idea. Rather, if you’re using .NET and want to quickly use Dependency Injection in your design, but are hesitant to adopt yet another framework (like Spring.NET, ( Read more... )

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Last weekend was the Blue Ridge Relay, which is 209 miles and 24+ hours of sick quad- and hamstring-bashing. Our Crazy Legs team showed up with a full twelve-person roster, and pulled out an impressive seventh-place (out of 75+ teams) in 26:45.


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Started out the new running week (running weeks start in Saturday) with McMullen Creek from 51 all the way to Rea (including the steeplechase construction portion at Johnston). PM was up for a 6:30am start, which was a good thing since the lot was already starting to get busy. DJ showed up and seems ready to resume ( Read more... )

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Michael Kamber is a war photojournalist and Leica fan currently operating in Iraq, and in this article he discusses his real-world experiences with the Leica M8. The article is scathing, to put it bluntly. Most interesting to me were not the photographic problems with the camera (absolutely wild fluxuations in color ( Read more... )