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I came across a really interesting article on the site Ajaxian regarding best practices for achieving high performance web pages. Here is the presentation:

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This is one of my most favorite funny moments on the show American Idol. Check out the video of Renaldo Lapuz as he tries out at the Dallas Texas auditions.

And here are the Lyrics:

We’re Brothers Forever by Renaldo Lapuz

“I am your brother
Your best friend forever
Singing the songs
The music that you like
We’re brothers til the end of time
Together forever til the end of time
I am your brother
Your best friend forever
Singing the songs
The music that you like
We’re brothers til the end of time
Together or not, you’re always in my heart
Your hurting feelings
Will reign no more.”

A while back I created a simple terrain demo that featured a little ship hovering over the ground that could be controlled by the keyboard and mouse.

Controls:
Mouse - rotates the camera
W - moves you forward into the direction the camera is facing
S - moves you backward from the direction your camera is facing
ESC - exits the demo

The terrain was created by editing a black and white image in a paint program and then blurred a few times to smooth out the brush strokes. The colors of the pixels represented the height of the terrain where the brightest pixels represented the hills and peaks, and the dark pixels represented the valleys.

I then textured the terrain with a rock-like image I had lying around.

The GUI was coded using plain vanilla Win-32 API calls. It lets you choose the screen resolution and bit depth.

You can download the demo here: Terrain4.zip

Welcome everyone to my newly redesigned website! I decided to change my site around to be more of a blog format rather than the older rather static design I had before. I’m using WordPress for this new site

In this new site, I’ll be writing about all kinds of things that interest me including articles on game development, web development, game reviews, funny articles or stories I hear about, technology news and more!

Terry