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Multi-Monitor with One screen rotated with Nvidia Drivers - Ubuntu 12.10 22 Jan 2013 | 08:49 am
I have this monitor and computer sitting on my right for a while now, and as you can see, the screen is rotated so it's in portrait mode. Not only is it great for Tweetdeck, it's also awesome ...
JRuby, LWJGL & OpenGL - Getting Started with Shaders 14 Jan 2013 | 06:30 am
In Part 2 we drew a triangle using a Vertex Buffer, and some basic shaders. While on the surface this can seem overtly complicated, it actually becomes the basis of a powerful OpenGL achitecture to en...
JRuby, LWJGL & JRuby - Drawing a Triangle 7 Jan 2013 | 11:59 am
In Part 1 we created a window, nothing too fancy. Now we get to actually display a triangle.Just to follow along as well, I'm moving through the Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming online book...
Creating a window with LWJGL and JRuby 3 Jan 2013 | 04:17 am
This is the most basic of steps before getting anything done with LWJGL and JRuby, so I figured I would document it to help people with the initial hurdles. Before doing anything with LWJGL and JRuby,...
Writing a Game: Feels like I'm Going Around in Circles... 31 Dec 2012 | 07:03 am
Warning: This is going to be far less technical, and more about the journey of learning that I'm enjoying.As per my previous blog post, and from several tweets I've posted, I've been slowl...
Procedural Land Creation with JRuby, Slick2D and Perlin Noise 12 Dec 2012 | 01:07 pm
For something different, I decided I would try my hand at doing some game development programming. I was incredibly inspired by many of the indie games I watch being actively developed, and I figured ...
Simplify Threaded Processing with FutureThreadedWorker 26 Nov 2012 | 09:02 am
Having worked with both Groovy, (J)Ruby and, Java and (to a much smaller degree) Clojure, I can pretty easily claim that ColdFusion's threading and distributed processing capabilities.. leave a li...
cf.Objective(ANZ) is only a Month Away! 3 Oct 2012 | 01:05 pm
Wow, time flies!Seems like only yesterday I was doing the closing remarks on the last cf.Objective(ANZ), and now it's already around the corner.This year is going to be great once again, with lots...
Git Workflow: The Case of the Lost Refactor 5 Jun 2012 | 09:38 pm
This has happened to me more than once, so I've been thinking about how to organise my branching and merging to allow for this scenario. I get my ticket to do some new feature on the application I...
Git Workflow: The Case of the Lost Refactor 5 Jun 2012 | 09:38 pm
This has happened to me more than once, so I've been thinking about how to organise my branching and merging to allow for this scenario. I get my ticket to do some new feature on the application I...
