Courtesy of Ventspace:

So it looks like polls across the country, from all races (presidential, Senate, House), have swung violently towards the Democrats. And I do mean violently. The Georgia Senate race, for example, has swung 15 points over two weeks, leaving a normally solid Republican state tie…

I've just posted Unit Testing on Ventspace.

Ventspace

I've opened a new blog under Wordpress called Ventspace. I'll probably do like jpetrie and post links here to new content that shows up there. If you would prefer to post replies to Ventspace entries in this journal, that is fine.

The spy museum in DC is pretty cool, but it's not part of the Smithsonian. That is why:
1) It isn't on most of the Smithsonian maps, making the task of finding it somewhat irritating.
2) It charges $18 at the door.
I don't mind 1 that much, but 2 was really obnoxious.

Building the SlimDX Installer

Devel…

I've been experimenting with driving to improve my mileage lately. I managed to gain about 4.5 mpg, from 23 to 27.5. It was really boring though, so I'm not sure if I will do it again. I prefer driving like a nutcase to saving a couple dollars...

SlimDX Installer Teaser

I was going to write up a beau…

I'm writing this entry while waiting for a partially frozen Visual Studio using exactly 25% CPU (spread evenly across 4 processors, mind you) to do whatever the hell it is so intent on doing between building docs and allowing me to interact with it again. I believe it has something to do with the 6…

I will note for the record that a 15 hour workday is much less fun than the brochure would have you believe. Oh, and this entry's a bit on the "phoned in" side, I'm afraid.

And one more little thing:
1>SlimDX - 0 error(s), 32551 warning(s)

Windows, OpenGL Versions, and Extensions

Something I've noti…

Deadlines at work, moving apartments, and GTA IV. Where the heck am I supposed to find time for anything else?

A Complete Listing of C++ String Types

Inspired by a recent IRC conversation, I decided to make a complete list of all of the major string types you're in danger of encountering when working…

I don't like surprises. I especially dislike it when those surprises are in the form of obscure bugs in code I own due to a wacky decision some other library made. In this case, I discovered that SlimDX wasn't writing char data correctly (that's Unicode characters, not bytes), because Marshal.SizeO…

I simultaneously love and hate April Fool's day. On the one hand, a lot of the stuff that happens is absolutely hilarious. On the other hand, some people do really stupid or annoying things. It's also apparently become fashionable to start posting things a day early, which is bull. Go to hell, Tech…