I took a break from game engine coding to finish one of the many pet projects I had before accepting that new job.  PGN Viewer is a chess game player which can read, analyze and playback a chess game based on its PGN data.  Unlike most other PGN viewers, my viewer is not a Java […]

As of Saturday, June 21, I accepted the role of Lead Developer for a brand new computer game company.  Due to the cutthroat nature of the gaming industry, I cannot go into detail regarding the name of the company nor the subject matter of any of its initial products.  About the only thing I can […]

Though I cannot go into detail at this point in time, an amazing opportunity has presented itself to me. If the cards fall correctly, my name will appear in the credits of a mass-produced computer game in a year or two. If that endeavour proves successful, then my software development career will take […]

A friend of mine has decided to move her fiction from a fan fiction site. She asked me if I knew of a free place to host it and I offered her some of my web space. I also offered to design her new site as well. This will be my first […]

I had to install the 32-bit MySQL engine to replace the 64-bit engine that I had installed last week. For backwards compatibility reasons, the Ruby script launcher, /usr/bin/ruby, was built as a 32-bit application and it will not interact with the 64-bit library supplied with the 64-bit MySQL installation. Now, the Ruby interpreter […]

Thanks to the folks at Creative Eyes, I have a new System Preferences applet that can start and stop the MySQL database engine very easily. MySQL either doesn’t have one of their own or it’s buggy.
Now that MySQL is up and running, I can get back to what I was working on before the […]

I was able to build Mac OS X dynamic libraries last night. I built my Tools and Compression code and was able to run them successfully. I also built them as 64-bit code and it all worked swimmingly. I do need to tweak my hand-built porting tools, but now I have a […]

It took a bit of poking around today, but I was able to build a test web site on my MacBook. The key turned out to be faulty file and directory permissions throughout the directory tree. That and some Apache server configurations got in my way. Once I got past those hurdles, […]

One of the many free-time projects that I work on are pirate radio shows for the Barscape forum. At least, I used to. Audio and video tend to use a lot of hard disk space and I ran out on my Compaq laptop some months ago. I have since built a networked […]

Ok. So I may have been hasty. My build of mod_ruby crashes the Apache server on startup. The System Preferences:Sharing applet didn’t notify me of this. It said it was working. The browser didn’t agree and the error logs confirmed it. Bad GUI! I should rub the applet’s […]