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Oculus RIFT development
Virtual Reality headsets have been consistently disappointing for several decades. Three reasons come to mind in order to explain this state of things:
The hardware is expensive: The latest Sony HMZ-T1 is 799$.
The hardware is not good enough: The motion sensor, screen latency and screen limited Field of View are unable to provide a feeling of immersion.
The software is non-existent: No major studio has ever supported VR Headsets.
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Doom3 Source Code Review
On November 23, 2011 id Software maintained the tradition and released the source code of their previous engine. This time is was the turn of idTech4 which powered Prey,
Quake 4 and of course Doom 3. Within hours the GitHub repository was forked more than 400 times and people started to look at the game internal mechanisms/port the engine on other platforms.
I also jumped on it and promptly completed the Mac OS X Intel version which John Carmack kindly advertised.
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Cracking Kevin Mitnick's Ghost In Tthe Wires Paperback Edition
I received yesterday a copy of Ghost In The Wire Paperback edition. Kevin Mitnick seems to have updated all of the challenges found at the beginning of each chapters. Since they are all available on book.google.com preview I don't think it is a big deal to publish and discuss our solutions here.
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Be A Donor
This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the Government of Ontario released the Mobile Website I designed and implemented for the major part of 2011. Beadonor.ca allows you reinforce your decision to be an organ donor. I feel honored and privileged to have been able to contribute to such a noble cause.
Many people are unaware of it but to become an organ donor is all about making sure your relatives will follow your decision when we are gone. An organ donor card...and actually any piece of paper that you...
Installing Windows 8 - Super-User Guide
This post was originally hosted on my old Blogspot blog. The approximate publication date and title are known but its contents are lost to time. This stub remains for posterity.
Android Shmup
Six months ago I released the source code of "SHMUP": a modest indie 3D shoot'em up designed for iOS. Since it did honorably on the Apple Appstore I offered anyone to port it to Android Appmarket for a 50/50 revenues split. Two developers consecutively took on the challenge only to give up a few weeks later.
So I downloaded the Native Development Kit from Google and I did it myself. I completed the port this weekend and even released a free version.
The codebase runs on Windows, iOS, MacOS X and Android in one click. Here it is.
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LibMinecraft and Partycraft
This post was originally hosted on my old Blogspot blog. The approximate publication date and title are known but its contents are lost to time. This stub remains for posterity.
LibMinecraft was a .NET library for writing Minecraft servers and clients. You can see what remains of it archived here. PartyCraft was a Minecraft server based on LibMinecraft. It’s archived here.
Minecraft on Mango
Yes, you see that right. My new pet project is making a Minecraft client for Windows Phone 7 that can connect to official Minecraft 1.0 (or 1.0.1) servers. So far, I have connecting done, and I’m working on the immense code required to parse all server messages. This is only possible thanks to the new Socket support added to Mango. I’ve already written an (incomplete) library for connecting to Minecraft servers in C#, but the crucial flaw with porting it to WP7 is that the existing library is syncronous. Mango unfortunately supports only asyncronous socket communication,...
Miners' Guild Site
As some of you may know, I’m a huge believer in OSS and doing awesome stuff for free. Of course, I have to make a living, but outside of 9-5, I do a bunch of free stuff. And when I started playing Minecraft, a friend of mine invited me to his server. He had a pretty bland website with no domain (you’d get to it by IP). To express my gratitude at his hosting of a great Minecraft server, I offered to clean it up. He gave me root access to his machines as I...