About Author: James

Website
http://ncot.piku.org.uk
Description
If this were the 80s I'd be sat in front of a C64 or Speccy, or taking VCRs apart.

Posts by James

  • Back when I owned an ST (well, I still have it, but you know what I mean) one of my favourite demos was Ooh Crikey! Wot a Scorcher By The Lost...

    OOh Crikey! Wot a lot of green!

    Back when I owned an ST (well, I still have it, but you know what I mean) one of my favourite demos was Ooh Crikey! Wot a Scorcher By The Lost...

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  • After a lot of chopping of code, rewriting bits and pieces and generally trying to turn a hacked mess into something more structured I have this… What you’re looking at...

    OpenGL ES 2.0 First Light

    After a lot of chopping of code, rewriting bits and pieces and generally trying to turn a hacked mess into something more structured I have this… What you’re looking at...

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  • So after creating a fun little iOS game using OpenGL ES 1.1 I decided the next thing I create should use ‘real’ 3D, rather than simply bashing OpenGL into managing...

    Debugging via telepathy

    So after creating a fun little iOS game using OpenGL ES 1.1 I decided the next thing I create should use ‘real’ 3D, rather than simply bashing OpenGL into managing...

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  • … and a bit of iOS file faffing. Getting paths to files inside the iOS application’s bundle: NSString* objPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@

    C++ and Objective-C string manipulations

    … and a bit of iOS file faffing. Getting paths to files inside the iOS application’s bundle: NSString* objPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"test" ofType:@"obj"]; ‘objPath’ will now contain the full path...

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  • There will be a less predictable image in a future post, once I produce something worth looking at that makes sense to you. I’ve been spending the past few weeks...

    Linear Algebra, Analytic Geometry and other stuff you never saw the point of

    There will be a less predictable image in a future post, once I produce something worth looking at that makes sense to you. I’ve been spending the past few weeks...

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  • If you have a freshly installed copy of Snow Leopard, and an equally freshly installed copy of XCode 4 you’ll find that XCode 4 doesn’t support the git source control...

    Repairing missing Git support in XCode 4

    If you have a freshly installed copy of Snow Leopard, and an equally freshly installed copy of XCode 4 you’ll find that XCode 4 doesn’t support the git source control...

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  • I’ve been trying to make a simple Service Locator class work but had a problem with bizarre linker errors, where the static member variable couldn’t be resolved. After a lot...

    Static class variable initialisation in C++

    I’ve been trying to make a simple Service Locator class work but had a problem with bizarre linker errors, where the static member variable couldn’t be resolved. After a lot...

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  • Inspired by a post over on the Beercave, here’s a summary of the goings on this year…

    2010 Review

    Inspired by a post over on the Beercave, here’s a summary of the goings on this year…

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  • After losing interest in Google’s not so spectacular tasks addon, and not wanting to use or pay for other people’s web based Todo lists I found MyTinyTodo which seems to...

    MyTinyTodo Email Notification Script

    After losing interest in Google’s not so spectacular tasks addon, and not wanting to use or pay for other people’s web based Todo lists I found MyTinyTodo which seems to...

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  • While trailing about the Internet, I came across this interesting section in a post about Apple and Android: If you’re a User Interface (UI) and User-Experience (UX) junkie like me,...

    Open Source, Apple and application quality

    While trailing about the Internet, I came across this interesting section in a post about Apple and Android: If you’re a User Interface (UI) and User-Experience (UX) junkie like me,...

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