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December 2003 - CraigBlog
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Looking back, I can see it's been over two months since my last Direct3D tutorial publication. D'oh! Well, it was a busy two months, but don't worry - I haven't given up. My latest installment is finally ready. It covers IndexBuffers, an important part...
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BitWorking has this piece. Regardless of which side of the issue you're on, US citizens should be aware of this, if for no other reason than to be able to debate it with those that don't share your views. How Do You Build a Police State? The same way...
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My recent entry about my desire for a Wiki that thinks in XML instead of text/html led me to an interesting application. David Pickett pointed me at WikidPad . I've been trying it out, and I have to say I really like it. It's a desktop application that...
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Dear PWSTM (People Way Smarter Than Me), As I've gotten used to using my blog over the last year, I've been thinking more about managing my personal information. Lately, I've been pondering Wikis, a topic about which I know little more than the basics...
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Years ago, I saw a neat application that would show you your disk drive usage as a series of nested rectangles. This makes it very easy to identify which folder, which subfolders, and even which particular files are eating your harddrive. I completely...
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So we went to my biggest client's holiday party last night. First of all, I thought it was pretty cool that they even invite consultants. Second, the food was excellent (steak and lobster, if you must know ;)). But I was a bit surprised to find that the...
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Daniel Sinclair , fellow DM instructor, turned me on to this very cool feature yesterday. Under Windows 2003 (and possibly other OSes – I haven’t checked), if you go to the properties for one of your local drives, you will see a tab labeled...
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Bruce Schneier's latest Crypto-Gram Newsletter (highly recommended), has a link to an amusing and interesting account of one interviewee's experience applying for a job at the National Security Agency (NSA).
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I’ve posted the slides and demos for my presentations at DevDays last week. You can find them here . Here are the descriptions: Multithreaded Programming in the CLR: The CLR provides full multithreading capabilities to programmers of all languages...
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I’ve lately been reading 3D Game Engine Design : A Practical Approach to Real-Time Computer Graphics . It is excellent. It’s exactly the book I’ve been looking for on my quest to understand Direct3D better – it starts with talking...
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Well, it was sort of painful, but I got the site up and running on dasBlog. Which, I have to say, is a fairly big improvement on BlogX. If I can convince the powers-that-be to somehow install CDO on the web server I run the site on, it’ll be even...
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I’m going to be cutting over to dasBlog today, so you may see intermittent availability
of this site. Further, your aggregator may show you a whole bunch of old posts
as being new ones. Apologies on both counts!
At any rate, no change of URL for either HTML or RSS content is expected – I’m
doing a bunch of w...
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Here’s a little something I wrote last week that somehow never made it onto
this blog:
I’m here at DevDays in
Zurich, Switzerland. My talks start in about two hours, and I find myself with a few
spare minutes.
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You may have seen on the news that there was a small earthquake near Richmond, Virginia.
I live near Washington, D.C., about 100 miles from the epicenter. Here’s how
it went for me:
Wife: Did you hear something?
Me: No.
Wife: I’m from the Pacific Rim. That felt like an earthquake.
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Frederic just shipped me the latest Direct3D translation, so you can click
here to read “Rendering Basics” in Danish.
I’ve also started a new article,
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