Every now and then my brain latches onto some obscure topic and it goes into overdrive mode. I then need to learn everything possible about said topic.

After a while though, I get tired of it and for some reason it stays forgotten.

Very rarely though, a topic interests me enough that at some stage of my "strange interests" life cycle, my brain will want to revisit the topic to see what has changed.  read more »

I'm busy looking for resources on the net regarding game development.

The biggest questions that most aspiring developers have are:

"What should I write my game with? Which programs? Which tools should I use?"

All of these are very good questions and they have been bothering me for a while.  read more »

So I've been struggling with this little gem for 3 days. I get a log of files that get downloaded from a bunch of different locations.

In the filename, there's a number in a fixed position (like 218) that corresponds to the day of the year. 29 for example would be the 29^th of January.

I need to convert this number to an ISO date format (like 2007-09-30). I have been racking my brains, scouring the internet, trying all sorts of different Perl modules with no luck.

Then it suddenly hit me, right between the eyes.  read more »

Interesting thing I just picked up on GameDev.net. Most of you can probably imagine that one of the first games using A.I was a game called Pac-Man.

What most of you probably don't know is that each one of the four ghosts had a different A.I pattern!  read more »

Okay, so now that I know how blob fields work and I can see that SQLite is VERY lite, and the .Net ADO provider is not as slow as I expected it would be, I think the application layout is as follows:

The app will scour the directory tree of a CD/DVD using some combination of Windows API calls and recursive procedures.  read more »

So I've heard of blob fields before, but I've never used them. Until today that is!

I have succesfully implemented a C# solution, saving an image file directly to a blob field in a SQLite database. Now most of you might think "so what?". For beginners like me, this is pretty amazing!

Working through a tutorial I found over at Egghead Cafe it was actually quite easy. I recommend you go take a look at that tutorial over there.

I've taken the code and simplified it a lot with a bunch of comments.  read more »

So I kind of jumped into the deep end here with this project of mine.

I'm trying to build a CD Cataloging software package, but I have NO idea in what format I should save the Directory Tree inside the DB.

On top of all THAT, I'm tying to use an embedded database called SQLite so that I can package a DB with the software. Thankfully, there's a .NET ADO provider for the DB, so I will be playing with that later.

Will probably upload that code example as promised.