http://www.gbuffer.net > Sid’s data dump Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:16:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The problem: For a long time I have tried various methods to disable the worst key on the keyboard - the CAPS lock. In my opinion, it provides no real function and yet is placed in a position where it can be easily be pressed. AutoHotKey Attempt 1: Initially I disabled this ... http://www.gbuffer.net/archives/163 Recently when automating certain tasks, I came across the need for a command line app that would close windows applications in a clean way. After a lot of searching I was surprised not to find something to do this simple task. Yes there a lot of tools to kill an ... http://www.gbuffer.net/archives/152 It's been some time since anything technical has been posted here. Been spending my time building up a stronger base since the top seemed a little wobbly. Got a new demo out today. It's something that some people (including me) call vector textures. A very interesting technique that uses the existing ... http://www.gbuffer.net/archives/136 Hey, What you doing child... Loafing around the internet like a college boy outside a girl's college. For those of you who don't know who Chamrajpet Charles is, I'll forgive you. If you have not heard of him, I seriously doubt you will be able to fully appreciate this post For the rest, ... http://www.gbuffer.net/archives/113 [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="225"][/caption] Water you can swim in... Well only virtually :-) This is my very first graphical demo built on a excellent open source framework called G3D. Demo is based on two chapters in the ShaderX book. "Rendering Ocean Water" by John Isidoro, Alex Vlachos, Chris Brennan And "Rippling Refractive and Reflective Water" by ... http://www.gbuffer.net/archives/93 Faster, cleaner, better... This upgrade has been long overdue, but there are a lot of other things to consider. The blog is now powered by Wordpress. I did consider a new version of Drupal, but Wordpress seemed a lot cleaner and more widely supported. Pictures and albums are now on Flickr.com. ImageShack.us ... http://www.gbuffer.net/archives/66 A few months back, I was given an interesting project to work on in an interview test. The test required me to build a small particle system for the Nintendo DS, using the homebrew tool chain. Well I don't know if I was stupid or just plain blind, but I ... http://www.gbuffer.net/archives/30 For the impatient... head over directly to the direct download linksFor those of you who don't know, HBO recently put the first 15 episodes of their new show 'In Treatment' online. That was good news so the first thing I did was head over there and checkout their 2 min ... http://www.gbuffer.net/archives/32 So, yesterday I was getting down to watch a relaxing movie and I realized that (yet again), that the SubRip file was not properly synced with the video. I decided that I've had enough of this. It's happened far too many times. So I opened up the .srt file in ... http://www.gbuffer.net/archives/28 Yesterday I finally found a use for compile time checking. I remembered reading this up in Andrei's book 'Modern C++ Design'. So I got down to implementing it in VS.NET 2005. His code (code below) seemed to work well in theory, but knowing MS, that's as far it goes. ... http://www.gbuffer.net/archives/111