http://kickingdragon.com geekery is afoot Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:25:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two weeks ago, Microsoft organized an online event they called "Game With Dev" as we've officially launched Turok. I've never heard of this before (although apparently it's not a new thing), but the idea is was sheer genius. Aside from getting my ass handed to me by the community (hey, ... http://kickingdragon.com/2008/03/06/turokdeveddie-online-communities/ I've always wanted to go to conferences, and aside from E3 back in 2001, I haven't really lived up to it. I'm keeping a list of nearby conferences to Vancouver/Seattle here.  Check it out, and leave any comments you have on this post. Hopefully someone else finds this useful.  If not, it's ... http://kickingdragon.com/2008/01/31/conferences/ After my backup fiasco a couple weeks ago, I figured I should investigate backups, and see what exactly it is in a backup solution that I am looking for. In reading up on the subject, I understood probably the best way to go about it is to do a base line ... http://kickingdragon.com/2008/01/22/the-backup-system-that-will-never-be/ As my previous post has stated, my posts have all but been wiped out. That said, through various Internet caches, I've begun to recover my old posts, ordered by the ones it seems people are requesting most. Let me know if you got here and couldn't find what you're looking for! http://kickingdragon.com/2008/01/14/ressurecting/ A failed server partition resize has blown away all my blog postings.  Dammit!  I thought I'd backed up everything, but I suppose it's fathomable I might miss something that late at night. Regardless,  the server is running better than ever, but I think my next project I blog about will be ... http://kickingdragon.com/2008/01/09/poof/ Hungarian notation has always sat wrong with me. So has some of Joel on Software’s views in the past. I’m currently revisiting both opinions. Firstly, Hungarian notation. For those of you not in the know, Hungarian notation is a coding convention that’s been around for a long time. It ... http://kickingdragon.com/2006/07/27/rethinking-my-standpoint-on-hungarian-notation-and-joel-on-software/ I’ve been dabbling in graphics programming a bit, mostly OpenGL glBegin/glEnd schtuff lately. A friend pointed me to vertex buffer objects (VBO’s) as a better alternative, so I decided to learn a bit about them. That said, I couldn’t find a tutorial that suited my needs, so I thought I’d ... http://kickingdragon.com/2006/07/25/opengl-vertex-buffer-objects-tutorial/ RAWC: Run Applications Without a Console: RAWC.zip This application will basically run a batch file of the same name whenever it starts up, but masking it's console that would normally pop up. That is, if you take the RAWC.exe, and run it as is, it will attempt to run RAWC.bat. Rename ... http://kickingdragon.com/2006/07/04/run-batch-files-without-a-console-popup/ This post is relatively old, however people seem to be searching for it still, so I've ressurected it. I no longer do this, but it should still be possible: Wow. I never thought about it, but I’ve been having issues with w.bloggar and it’s SSL based post method.. No more! I think ... http://kickingdragon.com/2005/08/31/posting-using-wbloggar-and-secure-tunneling/