Recently, I was reading an old Joel Spolsky post called “How Microsoft Lost the API War” from June of 2004. It’s a fascinating (and long) article that’s really worth your time to read. Basically he discusses how the “new tech turnover” folks eventually beat out the “just works” folks within Microsoft’s corporate culture. Looking […]

Sometime around noon this past Friday, the highly anticipated global thermonuclear war strategy game DEFCON was finally available to play. (The game’s website is everybody-dies.com.) I had it pre-purchased and pre-loaded through Steam, which for the most part I consider a functioning content distribution system. Not today. Not this entire weekend, in fact.
Steam exploded, […]

If you’re wondering where everyone disappeared to for the last few days, the answer is graduation! Olin College finally graduated its inaugural class. Congrats, Grant! Unfortunately this means we have to change our About Us page since Grant is no longer a student at Olin. ‘Tis a sad day indeed. But, now that school […]

The power. The beauty. The pain. No one ever said writing Javascript to dynamically change an SVG based on user input would be easy, but I’m saying right now that it is possible. This post is supposed to serve as a rudimentary guide for getting started with doing just that, specifically highlighting the problem […]

Or, The Continuation of Crystal Space vs. OGRE
My cries have been heard! Jorrit (the man behind Crystal Space) made a comment about my last post on this topic, and then proceeded to start a thread on the CS forums about the issues I brought up in regards to that 3D game engine. I think […]