Jay McGavren's Journal

2007-10-05

Remember those kamikaze guys with the bombs in Serious Sam? Well, that’s what my Halo technique has been reduced to.

EEEEEYYYYAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHThoom!

I rush the crowd of Brutes (I counted at least a dozen) and their #$@!@##$@ tank, toss my two grenades (bad guys fly every which way), and then kill as many as I can with my assault rifle before I’m shot from 3 sides at once. (It takes the AI a moment to realize that I actually am being that stupid.) Respawn at Diana’s sniper nest (with 2 new grenades), repeat.

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2007-10-05

I’ve allowed myself to be sloppy, just because my predecessor was sloppy. It’s starting to bite me in the ass.

No more. This software will be rewritten and refactored until I can sleep soundly at night. I don’t care whose toes get stepped on.

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2007-10-03

wxRuby: Painting a device context...

We pass Wx::Window#paint a block which will be called with a device context to paint on. Then we hook this into Wx::Window#evt_paint so it’s called whenever a repaint is needed.

This is a bit simpler than Ruby-Gnome2 so far…

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2007-10-03

Lazy Google...

Made a slight improvement to the standard Google “Google Bookmark” bookmarklet (boy, there’s a mouthful)… It quotes the current selection and uses it as a description, a la Lazy Sheep for del.icio.us.

Google Bookmark

Thanks to John Resig and Niall Kennedy.

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2007-10-03

Diana and I spent a good part of last night playing Halo 3 on Legendary with the Thunderstorm skull enabled… A narrow passageway with 10+ heavily-armed Brutes is not a funny thing. The sound of Spiker rounds clanging off the walls over and over is now permanently etched in my brain.

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