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Something I find fundamental as a software developer is having good rules of thumb for coding and architecturing. They should be taken as guidelines; of course, there are exceptions. That said, after a good 4 years of study and about 1 year of experience in the field at 3 different companies through internships (yeah that's not much - I'm writing...

I've never owned a video game console, and I've been eagerly awaiting Rayman Origins' release for PC. Well the time has come, I've spent the 30$ and installed the game.

Let me tell you I am not disappointed. Actually that's a ridiculous understatement. Rayman Origins is pure bliss. For the opening cinematic until I had to...

One of the reasons I rarely take part in discussions about Christianity on this forum, is that Christians are always categorized as “people who reject Evolution”, and that’s it’s impossible to have a fruitful discussion with such a starting point.

This view is a misconception, and a typically American misconception. True, Americans have to deal...

By and large, C++ is still the language of the video game industry. Every engine powering today's Xbox 360, PS3, and most PC games, is written in a 30-year old language, itself based on a 40 year-old language. None of the paradigms designed back then are adapted to today's...

It is no secret that I don't like the Elder Scrolls series, especially Oblivion and Skyrim. Morrowind at least had the merit of creating an original, alien world: with their run-of-the-mill settings, the latest two installements have managed to squander any potential for retaining my interest.

However, since others have explained why Skyrim sucks way...

I've been Catholic for most of my life, and I was a very active Catholic. I've been to WYD 2002, participated in several prayer/religious groups over many years, read and understood everything I could. As such, I have a lot of first-hand experience and, overall, it's overwhelmingly positive. I still think most of what the Church...

If there's one thing that gets on my nerves, it's redundant code. For example, in C#, everything is private by default, so there's no point writing:

Just some notes on how to adapt dranger's excellent tutorial #1 to work on VS2010 as of April 2011.

The project: make a basic video player using WPF and the very awesome libavcodec.
The point of this blog: document my findings as I go. Using libavcodec on Windows, especially using MSVC++, is not very well supported nor documented, so this should be useful to some.

The first step will be to learn how to use libavcodec within...

Disciples II is an old turn-based strategy game, best described as a gothic-styled version of Heroes of Might and Magic. It looks gorgeous and sounds better. It comes in very many editions however: