http://www.coranac.com my own little world Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:04:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay, so it's been a while, but there's finally a new version for grit. [br] First of all, the vector::insert should finally be fixed. And there was much rejoicing. I've also added an option for forcing the map palette-index (-mp <num>, which should help with NDS backgrounds that use ext-palettes. [br] Also – and ... http://www.coranac.com/2010/02/grit-0-8-4/ From xkcd (obviously) [img src="[$IMGBASE]spirit.png" alt="On January 26th, 2274 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared Spirit a 'stationary research station', expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on its solar panels forces a final shutdown."/] T_T http://www.coranac.com/2010/01/because-robots-need-love-too/ Random trivia: today is January 2nd, 2010. Or, in the One True Date Formatting, 20100102 : a symmetrical date. The next one won't be November next year. insert obigatory "symmetrical" macro here http://www.coranac.com/2010/01/symmetrical-date-is-symmetrical/ Okay, so it's only a card game; but a game nonetheless. [br] The game in question is an NDS implementation of [wiki cap="SET"]Set_(game)[/wiki]. Set is a card-matching game with 81 cards (see below). The figures on the cards have four properties and 3 possibilities for each property. The key is to find ... http://www.coranac.com/2009/12/setds/ When I discussed the memory footprints of several C/C++ elements, I apparently missed a very important item: operator new and related functions. I assumed new shouldn't increase the binary that much, but boy was I wrong. The short story is that officially new should throw an exception when it can't allocate ... http://www.coranac.com/2009/11/sizeof-new/ One of the nice features of WordPress is that it already has a lot of functionality built-in. The whole thing is set up so that normal people can just install and start writing posts immediately, with WordPress taking care of all the details like converting HTML entities and adding newline ... http://www.coranac.com/2009/08/filter-juggling-and-comment-preview/ [brevs IMGBASE="/img/post/signs/" /] The integer datatypes in C can be either signed or unsigned. Sometimes, it's obvious which should be used; for negative values you clearly should use signed types, for example. In many cases there is no obvious choice – in that case it usually doesn't matter which you use. Usually, but ... http://www.coranac.com/2009/08/signs-from-hell/ [brevs IMGBASE="/img/post/sine/" /] Gaddammit! [br] So here I am, looking forward to a nice quiet weekend; hang back, watch some telly and maybe read a bit – but NNnnneeeEEEEEUUUuuuuuuuu!! Someone had to write an interesting article about sine approximation. With a challenge at the end. And using an inefficient kind of approximation. And so ... http://www.coranac.com/2009/07/sines/ [brevs IMGBASE="/img/post/avp3/" /] Yes! YES!! OH GOD, YES!!! [br] I mean … uhm … … While browsing throught the E3 reports, I was moderately pleased to see the Aliens versus Predator series (of games, not movies) is getting another sequel. [br] I've always had a soft spot for [wiki cap="xenomorphs"]Xenomorph_(Alien)[/wiki]. This extends to the ... http://www.coranac.com/2009/06/bughunting/ With Tonc I pretty much did all the syntax highlighting of code manually. As you might expect, this experience was – well, the proper description is something not suitable for anyone under the age of several thousand, so let's keep it at “somewhat less than pleasant”. So the first thing ... http://www.coranac.com/2009/06/new-geshi/