I’ve been working from an internet cafe for the past two days. It’s been really really hectic around the house with mom doing the cleaning, dogs barking and with additional renovations going on. While the internet cafe is not the most comfortable place to work, I find the change of location motivating and most of [...]
Read moreI’ve been working on the design of one of the levels. It’s coming together well. I’ve also continued working on the freelancer portal. There was a kind of emergency with Bonbon (peeing problems due to crystals) that required long distance travel to the vet. Everything is good now. He’s on antibiotics and special ph food. [...]
Read moreAs I’ve already written in various posts, I’m pretty out of touch with the web development world. I found out that there are all sorts of frameworks to help with the development of web applications, which makes my previous rant about the expensive online collaboration tools even more true. There is Codeigniter, Cakephp, Yii, Prado, [...]
Read moreOf all the project management apps that I’ve tested, GanttProject is the best of the lot, plus it’s free. The simplicity of Gantt charts pretty much blows all the other stuff out of the water.
Read moreI’m alive! Sorry folks, it’s been crazy around here so I couldn’t even open up the computer, much less work. Last Thursday was the last day that I was able to work. I couldn’t do much today either besides errands and cleaning. One of the cats peed on a hard disk of mine, that was [...]
Read moreHouse cleaning and errands took up the whole day. Renovations are almost complete.
Read moreMy parents are here along with the whole gang of pets. Suffice to say, it’s a little hectic around here.
Read moreI’ve completed most of the work on the installer of the game. It’s looking/working nice.
Read moreWordPress seo plugin update broke the site today (in addition to a million other WordPress websites) for a couple of minutes. Makes you wonder what would happen to the web if any one of the popular WordPress plugins got hacked. The author of the plugin had this to say in the plugin’s changelog . Best [...]
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Read moreLately I’ve been fascinated by all the debate surrounding Diablo 3. I’ve identified four main points in the debate. The first one is: always-online-DRM, the second one is: lack of skill trees like Diablo 2, the third one is: Warcraft-ish character/environment design not being gothic/dark/creepy enough and the fourth is: the cheesy/predictable/non-existent story with horrible [...]
Read moreOh my, oh my. What has the world come to? Today, I’ve been baffled once again by the stupidity of corporate IT departments. I’ve been searching for some simple team collaboration software to better communicate/collaborate with, and manage, freelancers. I’ve tested quite a few of the solutions out there and let me say that most [...]
Read moreA fantastic article from IBM about memory management. Memory management is one of the most fundamental areas of computer programming. In many scripting languages, you don’t have to worry about how memory is managed, but that doesn’t make memory management any less important. Knowing the abilities and limitations of your memory manager is critical for [...]
Read moreOne of the most annoying things about creating 3d assets is moving data from one application to another. Since not one application is great at everything, you have to move your assets around a lot. Modeling in one application, repologizing/texturing in another, and rendering in yet another is not uncommon for 3d artists. What’s really [...]
Read moreI’ve been interested in Rage’s mega textures for a long time now. I’ve yet to play the game but I’ve found this PowerPoint presentation about its technology with awesome screenshots in it. It’s a pretty interesting read. Today, I did some texture compression testing (among other things). I’m really happy with the scenes overall. They [...]
Read moreAfter taking a long hard look at the current progress of the game, I decided to halt the development of trailer #2 for now. Because of all the fucked up shit that happened in the past two months I don’t really feel comfortable working on the trailer knowing that I’m behind schedule. Trailer #2 had [...]
Read moreI’m back! Actually, today is the first day that I was able to sit in front of the computer. I relaxed over the weekend. Now it’s time to get tense again. I’ll fill in the gaps between posts soon. I really enjoyed the timeout from the computer. I plan to do more 1-2 day vacations [...]
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