About the Cobras
I'm a C, C++, Objective C and PHP programmer. I develop various things for PCs, Macs and the iOS platforms. On and off I'm developing an iPhone game which I expect I shall never finish. I feature progress reports on how far I am from completing it in this blog along with me rattling on about learning French and any other junk I need to get off my chest. I shouldn't really need to say it in this day and age, but obviously, the opinions here are mine and not those of anyone who pays me... unless I've been bribed, in which case, all bets are off. There's more here.-
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These are the wires used to make my intergalactic spaceship
Ihave been becoming increasingly disheartened in recent years by how little the new generation of programmers know about how computers work. Their understanding of the relationship between what they tap into a computer and what the microprocessor actually ends up … Continue reading
Posted in Software development
Tagged C++, intergalactic spaceship, pointless observation, rants, text adventure
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From little acorns
Juuso, one of the chaps whose blog I really enjoy reading, says that he likes to describe emergent behaviour as “1 + 1 = 3”. I would describe that as a syntax error. Emergent behaviour isn’t about taking an obviously … Continue reading
Posted in Cool stuff, Software development
Tagged cobra art, development, elite, emergence, emergent behaviour, procedural generation, virtual world
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Fire sale: everything must go!
“Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.”— Robert G. Ingersoll Politics is a very difficult subject to have an opinion on: if we all agreed, we would all live in peace and harmony. Regrettably, it has been … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous rubbish, Rants
Tagged braiiiiins, cobra art, education, ill-informed opinion, long post is long, rants, snake
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Why stop at the pub? Let’s eat on the MOON!
Good food is not measured by quantity. Having a stack of beans, coleslaw and “meat” left over at the end of a meal does not mean that it was a good one. At the other end of the spectrum some … Continue reading
Posted in My iPhone game
Tagged castle-nine-popes, cobra art, iPhone, losing-track-of-reality, space snake, train
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Imbuing a certain niceness on one’s formatting
Oh my, std::locale(“”) is gorgeous when slapped on a std::stringstream. So long as you’re not writing super-duper-performance-sensitive code, you can do wonderful things like this: #include <string> #include <sstream> #include <locale> #include <iostream> #include <iomanip> int main() { std::stringstream ss; … Continue reading
Posted in Rants, Software development
Tagged broken, gcc, irregular pigeon, khaaaaaaaaaan!, rants, std::locale, tedious programming post
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I’ll moon you if you’re not careful
To be honest, I probably won’t, unless it is by accident: I appear to have lost a small amount of weight recently and my trousers keep falling down. Between that and a belt that is held on by one wafer … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous rubbish
Tagged cobra art, moon, pointless observation, space snake, spam
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I am going to go to space
But probably not in person, if I am perfectly honest. However, starting my own space program and launching the odd satellite or two, well, that is a different matter. A while back, I learnt about the N-Prize. This is a … Continue reading
Durdum… Durdum… Durdum…
Sharks have got a lot of bad press recently so you can imagine our TERROR the other day when we saw this vicious beast leap from the calm ocean and lumber up the beach towards us shuffling on his fearsome … Continue reading
Bad news trading
For nearly a decade I owned owned some Premium Bonds. They’re a savings type thing but instead of receiving interest, you get a chance to win a large, juicy chunk of tax free money every month. In theory, when times … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous rubbish
Tagged cobra art, financial advice from worf, potential disaster, shares
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Google+: It’s not Facebook!
Never before in the history of mankind has one privately owned company with such little accountability been in possession of so much personal data about so many people. It always seemed odd to me that the population of this country … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous rubbish
Tagged brown trousers of concern, cobra art, Facebook, germs, Google+, twitter
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