Long long time ago in galaxy far away I have bought Things – for both, my Mac and iOS devices. And I was very pleased using it (in fact, you can find it serving as a background at one of the pictures in the gallery at my blog). Anyway, I was using it constantly all […]
Indentation may be a nightmare when you want to merge codes between two different branches. If there are no formatting standards inside your team, if everybody uses different tool, let it be NetBeans, Eclipse, vi, emacs, you will probably, sooner or later, face the same issue – completely unsynchronized codes. There was this discussion that […]
Summary: For relational theory addicts I always have problem while reviewing C.J. Date’s material. The point here is that the quality, content and way of delivering it are always top noch. No questions here. But on the other hand, when it comes to audience, I think they are targeting specific people and really limited number […]
I am strongly against clouds, and the reason here is not that some naked pictures recently leaked from somewhere. I simply don’t store sensitive data at someone’s hard drives. Period. However, I need some sort of cloud for my personal usage – especially for Locko. I don’t want to copy paste all the passwords manually. […]
Summary: Good introduction to Cocos2D This book is a good introduction to Cocos2D. What you get here is not only a discussion of API but also remarks on game development itself. There are lots of useful information regarding not only how to code stuff, but also how to deal with elements composing the game (graphics, […]
Today, I have “discovered” one of the best, C++ books that I have read. Discovery was possible due to the cleanup up of my book shelf. I bet, that quality and being the best comes from the “first experience”. This book was first one related to object oriented development. The funny thing here is that […]
Summary: Size that can kill when dropped on your head This is a very heavy volume, real cookbook that contains lots of recipes related to MySQL. What makes this book different from other SQL books is that it focuses on certain, day to day, topics. This is not an easy go for beginners. Even though […]
If you like Jazz, make sure to check this one. http://footprints-jazz.blogspot.com 18, great remixes of various Jazz sources. Really worth checking.
Summary: Python on Her Majesty ‘the Algorithm’ service This video series is good for you if: – you switch from other language to Python, – you already know at least basics of Python (sorry, there is no Python introduction here), – you are familiar with Python environment (installation, using idle), – you already have some […]
Two weeks ago I have posted contest with Cocos 2D 3.0 by Kirill Muzykov in the center of it. Response and blog comments haven’t flooded the blog, but still there were five people who wanted to get the copy. And now, the moment that you all have been waiting for, the winners are: xStoryTeller, Richard […]
If you work with OS X 10.9 and want to have swift at your console, just specify new SDK location as parameter. // this is test.swift println(“Hello”) /Applications/Xcode6-Beta6.app/Contents/Developer/\ Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/swift \ -target x86_64-apple-macosx10.9 -sdk \ /Applications/Xcode6-Beta6.app/Contents/Developer/\ Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.10.sdk test.swift
Packt offered me a three copies of their recently published e-book: “Learning iPhone Game Development with Cocos2D 3.0” If you want to enter the competition, read on. You can get one digital copy out of three, but there is a catch :) You have to be a lucky winner. If you want to try to […]
I have just found really useful settings for tchs that make life easier: alias dirs ‘dirs -vl’ set dunique set pushdsilent set pushdtohome alias cd ‘pushd \!*’ source: http://thrysoee.dk/pushd/
Summary: Gives a small handful of advices on how to communicate This is one of these books where you get good advice on how to perform well when communicating things. I fully agree with Frank on how much important is the message. I fully agree on choosing right tools, right way of approaching the audience, […]
2:51 – that look. Is it bassist or chorus?
Summary: Whether you need it depends on your tasks Python Network Cookbook provides you with the samples related to the range of networking topics. Whether you will benefit from it depends heavily on your tasks. The point here is that the range of samples is really huge. Starting with data manipulation required for network based […]
If you want to prevent people from accidentally changing PATH variable try this one: set PATH=”$PATH:\0″ set PATH=”$PATH:some_additional_path” echo $PATH