Ok, so I (mostly) finished going through that book I mentioned the other day. Then I remembered that I have a book better-oriented toward C++, so I started reading it yesterday. It’s How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: C++ Version. It’s also available for Java and Python, in various file formats.
I’ve read it with [...]
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A few programming stumbling blocks
Posted in Programming on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nice Translator’s new look
Posted in News, Stuff for Language Nerds, Tech on August 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know how long it’s been like this (can’t be too long), but the site’s been redressed. Check it out.
One word: o…k. I can dig the softer colors (a bit too subdued) but I really liked its organization better before. There’s just something about it that makes it feel much more cluttered.
What gets me [...]
openBVE fans, rejoice!
Posted in Tech on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happened upon this video today (I’m a bit late in finding this out):
Look at that detail *uncontrollable drool*.
As of version 1.2, 3D cabs are now a reality. The route in the video hasn’t been released yet but if you want to try out a 3D cab, follow the instructions here. It’s [...]
C# book find
Posted in Tech on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I found a pretty sweet e-book for learning C# the other day (I believe via GameDev.net’s forums). I just recently started actually paying attention while reading it, and today I’m a bit over halfway.
It’s called the C# Yellow Book by Rob Miles, and it’s not as dry a read as you might think. I find [...]
So how’d the upgrade go?
Posted in Tech on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happily to say, with hardly a hitch.
It’s all smooth, except for two things: Compiz is slower, and Firefox didn’t upgrade to 3.5 like I was hoping. Instead, I’ve switched to Swiftfox. It’s Firefox, but platform-optimized. I didn’t plan on doing this, but it was easier to install than hunting down a Firefox .deb. Plus, a [...]
Currently upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04
Posted in Tech on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a long time coming, but I’m finally gonna do it.
Truth be told the original install (after a hard drive wipe of 7.10) was 8.04 LTS, so I didn’t have to upgrade the first time, but I enabled the regular upstream upgrades, and here we are. I just like new stuff too much :/
And [...]
Playing with C++
Posted in Tech on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not a C++. The C++. Ok, maybe that joke is getting a bit old now.
You can probably tell by now my interests fluctuate. A few days ago it was drawing and art. Today, it’s back to programming.
And as I’ve been trying to get back into programming, I started just randomly doing things in C++. I’m [...]
Freakin’ Cool App of the Week: Screenlets (+ Mini HOWTO: Possibly fix Screenlets startup issues)
Posted in Freakin' Cool App of the Week, Tech, Tips on July 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Looking for the HOWTO? Feel free to go right to it.
If you use Vista’s sidebar gadgets, you already know the essence of Screenlets. If you use OSX’s widgets or Yahoo! widgets, you already know the essence of Screenlets. Can you guess what it is yet?
Screenlets is a framework for such gadgets and gizmos on, you [...]
GeoCities is goin’ down!
Posted in News, Tech on July 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Down like downtown. I’m gonna whip it so hard..
Oh, I’m sorry. Getting to topic, I got an e-mail in my seldom-used and yet always-messy Yahoo! inbox a couple days ago. Usually the “official” mails are spammy, but this one was interesting. Obviously because it was the official announcement that GeoCities is dying.
I used to use [...]
IE7 parallel with IE6 (on XP anyway)
Posted in Tech, Tips on July 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’d been meaning to post about this for a while but I never got around to it.
One random, lonely, boring day (really every day) I started digging through some files and happened upon something like this in IE’s Program Files folder:
“No,” I thought, “surely not.” Surely so, it turns out. That’s not just an old IE icon, that’s [...]
