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Unicomp Ultra Classic – First Impressions
I found this in my draft backlog, dating from November 2013, as can be seen in the permalink. I’ve updated some of the details in the meantime When [...]
Low-end laptop annoyances
I recently fixed up a laptop. It’s specs were incredibly low-end to the point that I was surprised. it was a Lenovo G505 with a 1Ghz processor and [...]
Continuous Integration (mis)adventures
For the last while I’ve been trying to setup an automated build script + CI server for our software. Because of how the repository is laid out as [...]
Visual Studio-Style Splash Screen in Windows Forms
Splash Screens have been a staple of Applications for decades now. Effectively they came about because as applications got larger and got longer startup [...]
Site Changes – March 4th 2015
I’m quite sick of the Main landing page of the site. It is a custom written CMS but I wrote it a few years ago, it’s crusty and the design is [...]
Spigot/Bukkit Plugin talk
I’ve been out of the whole Bukkit Plugin business for some time, But I recently jumped back in because there was a tiny bit of demand for me to [...]
MSBuild And Java
Recently I had the opportunity to create an automated Build script for all our software. Being that “all our software” was over 50 applications [...]
Game Development
The “Video game” industry is interesting. It’s consumer base is often fickle, frugal, and judgmental. Often, reading about it- I’m [...]
Immunization
I tend to try to keep “political” type topics off of my blog, sticking to the technical stuff. But recently I saw an infographic on facebook [...]
The ubiquitious feeling of being lazy
After working on, well, work stuff, for a day or at the end of the week, I like to try to relax. Perhaps I will play a game, or watch youtube videos or [...]