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Archive for April, 2009

Stopped following around 300 people on twitter

Does this mean I’m a bad person? Well…. no The reason for this is that I wanna start a new twitter philosophy for the sake of my soul: Follow only people that I know and people that I would like to know more about. So I took the time to go through my 350+ followers [...]

Oje2d is now opensource

After some consideration I decided to opensource my 2d OpenGL Java Engine. Hopefully that will make me spend more time on it as I build a game around it and also get some external input. The license I chose was the MIT one. I think it’s one of the most liberal licenses out there and [...]

Prime Cuts, by Mike Portnoy

I recently rediscovered this CD I had hanging around for a while in a box. It’s called Prime Cuts and, in my opinion, is a must for all drums players/lovers. Not only it was released by the great Mike Portnoy (http://www.mikeportnoy.com/) but also, since most of the rest of the performers are part of the [...]

Cron jobs in Google AppEngine

Had no clue, but it seems that they implemented it, after a lot of whining from the community. I have to admit it will come in handy, but then I have to migrate sugus back there again. Crap. More info: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.html

Network library for games in Python

I have always loved games. Especially Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games. I have even tried to develop a couple of them in the past, using several different technologies, the latest ones being Java and OpenGL. So, while finishing college, I wrote a 2D game engine, a networking library, a map editor, sprite editor, basically everything [...]