Monthly Archive: November 2008

Nov
27

C# Developers: Comment your code!

I was just thinking how easy it is to tag all of your code with the essential metadata it needs: What does it do? What are the inputs? What are the outputs? Now we can, of course, put in plenty more metadata, such as general remarks, what exceptions are thrown, examples of how to use …

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Nov
25

Portable C++ on Windows: Part 1 – Compilers and Command Lines

Danushka and I decided to start a new game engine, and this time portability and simplicity are our two major concerns. The portability is mainly because Danu wants to use linux, and I don’t. Even if we were’t going for portability, we would probably still try to use open tools like Eclipse CDT because the Eclipse …

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Nov
18

John Resig Micro-Template script

I have been doing a bit of AJAX-enabled web development today and was directed to a blog post by John Resig (the creator of jQuery) detailing a very simple piece of javascript he uses for templating. It is very, very cool, and oh so simple to use. I will probably begin to use this more …

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Nov
09

Blog theme fixed

Having found that my theme rendered differently (and somewhat horribly) on each different browser I have updated it so that it now renders exactly the same on the following platforms and browsers: Windows: Explorer 7 Firefox 3 Safari 3 Chrome Mac OS Leopard: Firefox 3 Safari 3 This is mostly thanks to Eric Meyer’s CSS …

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Nov
06

Fun and Games 72 Feet Up

Yesterday evening we put a new halyard into the mast, after having to do a ‘Samurai Drop’ during the Coastal Classic , and it proved to be slightly more challenging than we thought it would be. We had a metre of chain, followed by a thin rope to thread through the mast, which we then inteded …

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