I love CakePHP. It’s a PHP framework with a clear and strict Model / View / Controller (MVC) separation and a great abstraction layer for reading, updating and saving objects to the database. Recently, the CakePHP team released CakePHP 2.0, and I started updating my projects to this new version. …
Here’s some recent game graphics talks I’ve been enjoying. First one is Carmack on Quakecon 2011 – it’s a very technical talk, but very interesting on how they do texture streaming on consoles, compared to pc systems.
Possibly the best sociopolitical song of the last decade.
Today, two of Belgium’s biggest operators, Telenet and Belgacom, got a court order to block the website ThePirateBay.org, and about 20 alternative URL’s to the same site. The court ordered them to do a DNS-level block of the domain names, which is easy to circumvent. I’m writing this post because …
Usually, the only content coming from open-message-board extravaganza 4chan is … questionable, at best, but someone pitched a sorting algorithm that’s trivial, beautiful and a bit unique: Sleep Sort. Bonus points for having a great lazy name, and it does work. It basicly forks a process and lets it sleep for …
Seriously, why would you want to have your picture looking like it was taken 30 years ago? Cut your ‘vintage’ obsession and stop making your snapshots look like shit. But hey, don’t take my word for it, Mike Polk knows best.
I’ve been enjoying playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : Call of Pripyat lately, which is the third installment in the series. For people who don’t know the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games: they are based in the fictituous radioactive ‘zone’ which was created after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. It is loosely based on the novel Roadside …
I bought a simple D-Link 600 router a couple of weeks ago – you can easily pick them up at your local outlet for $30 or less. I specifically chose that model because I wanted to install DD-WRT on it – you can check the availability for your router on …
Disclaimer: following post is in Dutch, because it’s about a local issue. Google translate to the rescue if you’re interested! Normaal beperk ik mij op deze persoonlijke blog tot het schrijven van lichtjes geeky stukken over graphics, programmeertalen en nuja, stukken die ergens alleen interessant zijn voor mensen die eenzelfde …
Here’s just a small writeup of a good way I found to boost your Wifi signal. If you’re living in a residential area, you’ve probably noticed how more and more people have their own wireless networks. Unfortunately, most of the hardware which is distributed today is set to transmit data …