I have a message for any of you who get the bright idea to bring up Lisp macros in response to this entry:
Shut the hell up.
Lisp macros are an entirely different game and really only work because of the way Lisp is set up in the first place. They're not relevant and certainly aren't supportable in m…

I attended a talk at Johns Hopkins last Friday given by Tim Sweeney, and had dinner with him later in the evening. And in between those two events, I was at an office party where we played Fracture multiplayer. That was a really good day. Oh, and apparently Tim got himself a Ferrari F430 Spider a f…

This entry is a bit on the stream of consciousness side. I have a couple technical topics lined up but all of them are still in draft form and need tweaking.

Gaming Roundup I

So I've been playing a couple different games lately, and I wanted to make some comments on them.

The first one is Dead or Aliv…

Work is pretty slow so far, but that's to be expected. I'm mostly tasked on patching up internal tools right now. Not exactly glamorous, but as critical as anything else and I have no objections to doing it. In the meantime, you guys should check out our kick ass Yahoo Games webisode and trailer. A…

Day 1 at Day 1

I didn't really want to write this entry, since I don't think it's fair to evaluate a workplace after only one day. The abbreviated version is that for now I'm getting good vibes from the place, and I trust my intuition quite heavily in these matters.

I do have one comment of interest,…

Back to the technical stuff for now. I start at Day 1 on Monday, so you can probably guess what vein the posts for next week will be in.

The Problems of Data Hiding

I was reminded of this yesterday, when I was asked to reconsider sealing a bunch of SlimDX classes. (SlimDX objects were all previously …

Before I get started, I have one thing to say about Dev-C++. If you're using it, knock it off. It's a worthless piece of software that wasn't any good when it was being actively developed, let alone now when it's been dead for two years. If you're programming on Windows, take the time to learn Visu…

Buying a car is a rather stressful experience, but I think it would've been much worse without the internet at hand. Once again, the internet triumphs over all. I'll talk all about it later.

Alternate titles for this entry included "Can Has Car?", "Zoom Zoom", and "I Got Three Stars On The Way Home"…

It's not clear to me how many people know this, but I've decided to take an indeterminate amount of time (most likely 2 years) off of school and pursue career goals. There are any number of reasons, but they are not the subject of this entry.

I've accepted an offer with Day 1 Studios, near Baltimore…