Procedural Landscape Generation Youre Speaking My Language Baby Part 4: Objective C The last language I'm considering isObjective-C. I know this language the least of three (which is to say: I don't know it at all). To make matters worse, while Java and C++ share a similar syntax, Objective-C is completely different in places. That being said, it&
Procedural Landscape Generation You're Speaking my Language, Baby. Part 3: C++ The second language I'm considering isC++. This is the language that I use the most at my day job. It's also the language that's used to build the vast majority of computer games and one hell of a lot of commercial software. I'
Procedural Landscape Generation You're Speaking my Language, Baby. Part 2: Java The first language I'm considering isJava. This is by far the language I'm most comfortable and proficient with. It was used for about 90% of my Bachelors degree, I wrote the entire codebase of my PhD using it, and it gets used here and there in
Procedural Landscape Generation You're Speaking my Language, Baby. Part 1: Introduction If you're about to start on a programming project of some sort (and I am), then the first choice you have to make is the main programming language you're going to use. Now, if you're carrying out this project on your employers time they
Procedural Landscape Generation What in the Name of all that's Holy is a Clockwork Aphid? Clockwork Aphid is the name I'm giving to a side project I've had sitting at the back of head for a little while. I'm actually going to try and build it now. What it actually is is quite big and hard to explain, so
Blogger Identity As you may or may not know, I'm currently in Australia. In fact, I've now been here for a little over a month. I'll blog about it sooner or later, but not yet. This is largely because I don't know what I&
Hacker Web Frameworks, Desktop Application and My Newly Melted Brain Let's get the preliminaries out of the way: Hello, long time no see, how have you been? Etc... So, whilst writing up my PhD (experiments finally finished!) and working three days a week (going fully full time at the end of September!) I have a fair bit on
Hacker Call by the what now? Some not work related computery bits and pieces have been percolating around my head for some time now. I think we should talk about them for a while. That is: I'll talk. You listen. I'm probably going to write a couple of more techy blogs, all
Hacker Ferðalangur I've been traveling around for work for the vast majority of the last month, so generally speaking I've been anything but at a loose end. Evenings were full of work or spent with the colleagues / friends I was traveling with. But now I'm back
Hacker Celtx on the Acer Aspire One So I managed to get the Celtx screenwriting (and general preproduction) software up and running on my shiny new AA1, and in the interests of sharing the knowledge I thought I'd post how I did it. Please note, this should also work as general recipe for installing any
