Monthly Archives: October 2007

IGN RPG Vault Interview

Posted on October 27, 2007 by proj

I was interviewed with 3 other programmers for an IGN Vault piece this week. They  asked us to describe some of the challenges we had to overcome to ship the game. It was nice to be able to talk about some … Continue reading →

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RubyCube on Ubuntu 7.10

Posted on October 19, 2007 by proj

I spent a few minutes on my new laptop with RubyCube. Since it uses GLUT as a foundation it was simple to port the extconf.rb to build on Ubuntu. I’m going to have to wait until after we ship TR … Continue reading →

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New Dell Laptop Today

Posted on October 12, 2007 by proj

I just received a replacement laptop from Dell and it seems they’ve put a lot of effort into the fit and finish department. The machine is slick and stylish and the specs are easily in the range of desktop replacement. … Continue reading →

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REPL to the rescue

Posted on October 10, 2007 by proj

From the book Practical Common Lisp “Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing … Continue reading →

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