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LedowLand: June 2008
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Thursday, June 05, 2008. 1) Program in whatever language you like. This also means that if you are confident in several languages, you should program in the most appropriate or your favourite language. It doesn't matter which! There's nothing worse than being told that you "should" be programming in C when you're knocking up a twenty-line batch file (yes, batch files are programming, of a sort! 2) Ignore coding style. I would argue that programming teams should have a system where they all use their own ...
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LedowLand: July 2010
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Thursday, July 29, 2010. I've been singing the virtues of Steam. My Steam account started in 2003 from a Half Life "Generations" pack (actually 2, one each for myself and my brother) that we'd been playing for years before Steam even existed. When WON died, we were forced to move onto Steam, and it generated a lot of bad feeling back then. Over time I slowly added games until my current situation where I have 141 games on my Steam account. So how much did this entertainment cost me per hour? A DVD: £...
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LedowLand: January 2007
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Sunday, January 07, 2007. Linux - Good enough, Easy enough, Supported enough, Common enough. Incidentally, he was shocked that I had a degree and further shocked that it was in Mathematics and Computing - he hadn't expected that in a lowly computer technician. That made me into "someone he could to talk about mathematics without having to dumb down"). The Scout IT activity. This is especially good given the average budget of a small Scout group who would be required to arrange such activities on a fairly...
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LedowLand: April 2008
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008. STPPC2x Beta 2- GP2X port of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. I've just released Beta 2 of my port of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection to SDL/GP2X. It is much improved and the only remaining "problem" is that mines doesn't work. The other 26 games run fine from start to end. The beta 2 version of STPPC2x (and the associated source code) can be found here:. Http:/ archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi? 0,0,0,0,25,2543. Http:/ www.ledow.org.uk/gp2x/.
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LedowLand: March 2007
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007. Seeing how I've been looking back at some of my older games recently, having been disillusioned with most modern ones and without a computer to play them on for a while, I was horrified to spot this bit of news:. Take a 16 kilobyte game. Of classic nature, with fast, simplified gameplay, clear objectives, simple controls, that used to run on a processor of only a handful of MHz. And in the process remove years of good game-playing memories. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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LedowLand: Copyright, and the UK's Digital Bills to clamp down on my viewing habits
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Monday, April 12, 2010. Just been reading The Register's article on the Digital Economy Act. Thought it was finally time for a bit of a rant. But "Piracy" as a concept isn't something that will die easily because it's mainstream and solves many mainstream problems much more effectively than anything else available. Of course, there is an obligation to uphold the laws but the fact that piracy is *so* prevalent, so tricky to define, can be made *so* hard to track / prove by the simple step of running, say,...
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LedowLand: October 2006
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006. Slackware 11.0 - first experiences and upgrade process. In a moment of blindness, I omitted rc.udev.new), however the other was just common sense if you intend to work from an accurate copy of your existing system! Those installing onto a clean partition should have no problem at all. People say that KDE is full of bloat but, I'm sorry, 3Gb for an entire OS including X and an office suite? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I never feel like making my own website after maintainin...
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LedowLand: March 2008
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Saturday, March 29, 2008. GP2X port of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. Damn it's a long time since I programmed in C. I've just spent the last few weeks porting the GTK/Windows/MacOS/Palm collection of games that are in Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. To work on the GP2X. Using the SDL gfx. Library helped a lot too). Even the font functions were quite simple, when using SDL ttf. The first beta, with 25 out of 27 games playable, most of them near-perfectly, has been released on both ...
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LedowLand: GP2X port of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
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Saturday, March 29, 2008. GP2X port of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. Damn it's a long time since I programmed in C. I've just spent the last few weeks porting the GTK/Windows/MacOS/Palm collection of games that are in Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. To work on the GP2X. Using the SDL gfx. Library helped a lot too). Even the font functions were quite simple, when using SDL ttf. The first beta, with 25 out of 27 games playable, most of them near-perfectly, has been released on both ...
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LedowLand: Hobbyist programming advice
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Thursday, June 05, 2008. 1) Program in whatever language you like. This also means that if you are confident in several languages, you should program in the most appropriate or your favourite language. It doesn't matter which! There's nothing worse than being told that you "should" be programming in C when you're knocking up a twenty-line batch file (yes, batch files are programming, of a sort! 2) Ignore coding style. I would argue that programming teams should have a system where they all use their own ...
