Monday, August 31st, 2009
Finally it’s super easy to make your own card and board games. Someone must have realized how many times people have gotten all excited to make a game, then had all their energy go to waste when they realized how hard it is to get such a game published.
I’m really picky about sneakers. These make
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
I’ve heard a lot of mantras regarding how to handle exceptions properly in programming languages that support checked exceptions (eg Java). Sometimes these mantras are regarded a little too highly, even doing harm in some situations. I’d like to dissect a couple of these.
Never Sometimes catch the top-level “Exception” class.
There are times when it is
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Decided to spruce up the design of this blog. I wanted texture, and here it is!
Decided to not use any PNG transparency hacks and just let the browser do what it wants with what I throw at it. As a result, the few visitors that are using IE6 will get less-than-ideal rendering. I
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