Last saturday the 25th a demonstration against ACTA took place here in nuremberg. In my opinion it is a big mistake to sign this contract. Thats why I was there, too.
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Construction Yard
After updating all services on my server the last one is my not very often updated blog. Again spammer found a way to bypass the spam protection and I had to delete all unwelcome comments by hand. Now its clean again and I can start with some more useful work. As long as it takes to finish the last tuning tasks this site will be a construction yard. So please be patient if something does not work for example the comment feature….
Programming C#
For those who search a good book to start programming C# I would like to suggest you this book. It covers all important parts of the language in a comprehensive way with good example how to use features of C#.
With good experience in Java it is really easy to learn C# and after reading this book my last gaps between java and c# were closed.
The book is written by Ian Griffiths, Matthew Adams and Jesse Liberty published by O’Reilly Media Inc.
Discovered Maven
Sometimes it is a good idea to have a look around you even if everything works fine. So far I was used to use Ant for building my java applications. Ant is a great tool and like gnu make it is able to do everything you want it do. you only have to write a proper configuration file.
Maven is on the first look a bit more restrictive because it forces you to follow some conventions given by the chosen archetype of a special project. But if you do so you will get much simpler configuration and a structured layout of project files. The archetype specific stuff is handled by plugins and there are plenty of plugins already out there for nearly every task you could imagine.
Maven is a java application itself and therefore usable on every platform java is running. The plugins can be retrieved automatically from Internet repositories. That is even true for required jar files need to build or to deploy an application. Perfect to build on different machines without the need of check in jar dependencies into the source code repository or copy it by hand to the proper location. Even during development it is not required to search for needed dependencies. Just add it to mavens configuration and if something is missing it will be retrieved.
The eager Ant is not dead. It has now a new companion.
Island view
While sorting pictures from my holiday at the beginning of the year I found some screenshots of my little game hobby. Unfortunately I am not good in working with blender and so the only model I have (which is not completely ugly) is one tree.
Spring clean up
I am just clean up the blog from unwelcome comments and modified a bit the spam protection. The simple standard protection was very good in the beginning but now it seems to be no really obstacle for the most spamming bots anymore. At least I can see that every day hundreds of spam comments could be committed and I had to erase them manually. Unfortunately I also erased some real comments and now I need to find them again… By the way, WordPress cannot erase 500 spam message in one run. My webserver told me the URL is to long…
Happy New Year
Happy new year to everyone to all visitors of this site. Best wishes and may the new year will start for you at least as good as it started for me!
The Duke is coming
This time it really could become true. The Duke will come. Gearbox gave a more precise release date as “Its done, when its done!” and there was a playable Demo version at PAX 2010. Ok, that already happened a few times before but now there is a new reason why this time Duke Nukem will come.
Chuck Norris told Duke Nukem to arrive next year
If the Duke is here than my hobby project has a good change to win the Vaporware Award. At least I changed during development 4 times the engine and 3 times the tools. Like 3D Realm. But I am more interessted in learning how to do and to do something interesting. That also means that I will never reach an end. There is every time something new to learn…
Six month later
Time is running fast. Really fast. And sometimes too fast. Thats the reason why the gap between this and the last blog entry is about six month.
No blog entry does not mean that nothing did happen during this time. In fact many things happened and due to the limited number of hours a day some task had to suffer a bit. Blogging was one of them. Stay tuned.
First Ogre Picture
In my last post I wrote about my switch to Ogre3D and I did not post any picture. Shame on me. So far its not very exciting and you can only see a wireframe of a terrain and two trees.
The trees are a fast hack in blender and converted by OgreXMLConvert to the .mesh format used by the the graphic engine.