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YABE … yet another blogging engine

mx — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:18:29 +0000

Chryp is a GPL3′d, Tumblr-like blogging engine written in Php. It’s used by such sites as Cameron I/O, hinting that it’s at least marginally capable.

A Python Interactive Fiction engine

mx — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:40:27 +0000

BUS is a simple interactive fiction engine written in Python. It includes a basic world model and NL parser.

Mozilla finally aims at mobile

mx — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:36:40 +0000

The Mozilla2 platform aims for mobile market. It’s about bloody time. It looks like webkit has already schooled Gecko in the embedded space, so the Mozilla team has some catchup to do.

Coupling 101

mx — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:38:20 +0000

An interesting description of coupling and complexity, with nifty diagrams and clear explanations.

Free online book: The hacker’s diet

mx — Thu, 17 May 2007 03:43:08 +0000

In the theme of groking your gut: The Hacker’s Diet, a free, classic text online … engineering for your self.

SQLite talk at Google

mx — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:30:50 +0000

Richard Hipp gives a Google Talk about his SQLite engine. SQLite is a small, slick SQL engine that offers most of SQL92, a small footprint (single file), and great performance on desktops and handheld systems.

Movie review: Primer

mx — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:09:45 +0000

[stars: 5] Primer. Absolute brilliance on a shoestring budget. A solid reminder to geeks that you can make anything, given 6 months of hard work. They paint the life of engineers in a believable way, wrapped around a twisted sci-fi plot. This movie will leave you inspired and confused–and trying to figure out wtf actually happened.

String matching engines compared

mx — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:29:38 +0000

A comparison of the Perl 5 regex and the Thomson NFA string matching engines. Note that the NFA matching is measured in microseconds (and the regex in milliseconds).

HOWTO hire developers

mx — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:14:17 +0000

A Multics engineer writes about the hiring process, and a random follow-up set of phone screening questions.

The High Train to Tibet

mx — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:09:51 +0000

The engineering tale of the train to Tibet, a route that tops 16k feet at its peek.

Inform7 available

mx — Thu, 04 May 2006 01:31:23 +0000

Inform7 is now available, the uber-ific update to the classic interactive fiction z-machine. This version uses a natural-language processing engine to replace its previous more static language matching engine.

Useful SDL libraries

mx — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:58:41 +0000

Here’s a few SDL libraries that look reasonable and useful:

An attractive terminal library
SDL + SVG, appears to be Linux only
SDL_ttf, handy font-support
The Kyra sprite engine
A GUI kit for SDL from Paragui
A graphic primitive library for the SDL

SDL Tutorials

mx — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:57:06 +0000

A decent set of SDL tutorials. Read more about the SDL, or the Simple Directmedia Layer, a free set of cross-platform gaming libraries. You can find more tutorials at the SDL tutorials page, the official SDL wiki, Sol, tille’s tutorials, gpwiki, and lazyfoo SDL tutorials.

3d Engine Reviews

mx — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:10:57 +0000

Here’s a 3d engine review site.