Author Archives: proj

Juno 106

Posted on June 8, 2010 by proj

The old juno finally lost some of it’s voice.. the second wave generator is out. This happened around the time I modified the power plug so I probably did something to it. She’s all beat up already with broken faders … Continue reading →

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Blog Going Away Soon

Posted on March 19, 2010 by proj

To be replaced by something else.. not sure what, tbd

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The Crazy things People Say

Posted on December 23, 2009 by proj

GameDaily compares TR to WoW. We did it for the lulz. (Thanks wayback machine)

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More Database Linkage / Research Material

Posted on December 23, 2009 by proj

Papers: Weaving Relations for Cache Performance C-Store a Column oriented DBMS Terms: Online Transaction Processing OLTP Online Analytic Processing OLAP Batch Processing Publish Subscribe Bitmap Indexes Strict Weak Ordering DB Normalization People: Ted Codd And his 12 rules Christopher Date … Continue reading →

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Google C++ Style Guide

Posted on August 3, 2009 by proj

This is a nice comprehensive guide without the rhetoric you usually get in a C++ style guide. I’m still working through it Google C++ Style Guide

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Select a Single Item in a List View Control

Posted on July 31, 2009 by proj

This simple operation took me longer to figure out than I would like, the answer wasn’t obvious on msdn or in any of the searches I did so I figure I should just put it up here for anyone else … Continue reading →

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Tracking down Circular Dependencies in Static Libraries

Posted on June 26, 2009 by proj

The GNU linker has some trouble when you present it with multiple library archives that depend upon each other. Libraries with symbols resolved in other libraries must be presented earlier on the command line. You can work around this with … Continue reading →

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Overview of the Z-machine

Posted on June 26, 2009 by proj

Here is a good article outlining the Z-machine. This is the machine that runs all of the Infocom text adventures including Zork for which the virtual machine is named. This is some really interesting engineering and you can still see … Continue reading →

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Is CVS dying?

Posted on June 6, 2009 by proj

I’m sure people are still using it but just tonight I was searching for a CVS command line client for windows and had some trouble finding something usable. If you’re going to use CVS you should probably just use SVN … Continue reading →

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Facebook, twitter and blogging

Posted on June 6, 2009 by proj

Seems like over the past year or more twitter and facebook have taken over my status updates. This has led to me paying less attention to my blog which is really not a direction I meant to go in. It … Continue reading →

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