Category: Everyday Dev

By “popular” demand, here is the so-called pizza tower:

FengGUI now supports the latest version of JOGL (there was a conflict with package names which were changed during the development of JOGL). If any of you uses FengGUI together with JOGL and it doesn’t work at all after my changes, feel free to hatemail me.

Somehow this blog becomes a picture gallery…

We’ve captured the hornet!

I’m currently sitting here having my breakfast (breakfast, but not too fast, as I occasionally comment on it), after I spent the majority of the last night programming. For me, there are two types of spending a night programming. First, when you keep working on your code, but it will not suddenly happen that everything fits together and you fall off your chair and sleep on the floor dreaming bad dreams. Second, when you keep working on your code and it will suddenly happen that everything fits together and your problem is solved. Sometimes, I like going for the second one. That’s also what I went for last night.

So now I’m here, feeling a little puzzled as every morning, doing some crosswords and trying a sugar-free coffee for the first time. I’ve always used the excuse that I need sugar for my brain, so I can’t drink sugar-free coffee. But let’s see, if this blog gets even weirder as it already is, it may be a result of lack of sugar.

The only problem I got with pizzas is that they do not respawn.

As I am not able to attend the E3, I’m always interested in watching video footages of game presentations held at the show. Recently, I discovered that there is a video download client at E3Insider.com which provides videos at a decent quality. Unfortunately, there is no Linux client and the one for Windows doesn’t work with Wine or other emulation kits…

This error message beats everything:

I’m wondering if there is another message if that error message also fails..

it sucks when it dies with an OutOfMemory exception and leaves your .metadata folder crumbled

As previously mentioned in this blog, my graphics card is gone. I was pretty shocked when I came into the office last Friday, turned on the screens and saw a completely new screensaver. Here is a picture of the card:

We’ve been playing jPentris for some time now and nobody seems to be able to beat GA’s highscore. In my opinion, this block here is the reason why we all fail:

Programming all day is nice, but sometimes it’s necessary to turn off your brain. In order to do so, I started doing fitness sport again. Running, to be more specific. Although it often seems that the tight schedule does not allow such things, I think one has to take that time off. It’s a great opportunity to leave one’s brain with itself for a while so that it can recharge for the next programming session. And no hehe, it’s not that I just want to do something again a certain cliché.

Somehow, it’s a miracle that after running for an hour or so, when you are zapped and your body is toast, your brain starts being creative again. Problems you’ve been bugging around with for hours are solved in just a few minutes and you’re fully motivated to hack some code.

Off topic: Potato chips are definitely one of the greatest inventions of mankind.