Archive for the 'Programming/Technology' Category
Rant on Testing Darkstar
I have been using the Darkstar server / framework to develop my game, Mooks. I have also been trying to adhere to TDD principles. What makes this difficult is that Darkstar uses a set of static objects to provide access to the model and service layers. While they do provide a way to inject you [...]
Read More..>>Ivy experiments
This week I have been trying to get back into one of my personal projects, Mooks. I have chosen to experiment with Ivy + Ant over Maven for this project. While Maven is nice, I still feel more comfortable with Ant. Given that Ivy supports Maven 2 repositories, I feel that it strikes a nice [...]
Read More..>>Building First Cup. Pt 1
Summary: I will walk you through making the application, FirstCup, using Spring, Maven, Flare, and BlazeDS. Introductory Fluff: For my Information Visualization class, we were tasked with finding a large data set and creating a system for visualizing it. My group and I chose the corpus of entries at JavaBlogs.com for our dataset. Most of [...]
Read More..>>Rotation and Lighting Demo
I have posted a new demo which shows off lighting and rotation. The rotation and icosahedron are being defined expressively whereas the lighting and texturing are being defined procedurally with JOGL calls. Hopefully I will fix this soon. The code is currently in my Mercurial repo, and I will be posting an analysis soon.
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