In an effort to centralize some articles about how some classic games were devloped, I’ve collected the various parts of Patrick Wyatt’s blog series about the intital development of Warcraft.
Please note that this version of the series is just meant to capture the content, and not all formatting changes have been captured.
Please see the original posts for the full experience ;)
Read on →I manage my open source and contract development projects using Redmine.
Since I’m “frugal”, I tend to try to push the free hosting envelope as far as possible. As a result, I have my Redmine deployment on Heroku, my files and attachments on Dropbox and my source on GitHub.
I also like to link to changesets in my projects, which is easy enough to do when you host the source and the Redmine server on the same machine.
Not so easy with Heroku+GitHub …. until now!
By the end of this tutorial, we will have:
The ScummVM project recently added support for Tony Tough and the Night of the Roasted Moths.
The original developer, Giovanni Bajo appeared on the scummvm-devel mailing list and offered some insight into the development of the original engine.
The following is extracted from the original post.
Read on →I use Synergy on all my computers to share a common mouse and keyboard, but I’ve found that with Gnome 3 based distributions, the hot corner was causing me some grief.
The beauty of using a Linux-based system though is that you can pretty much change anything you’re unhappy with, so that’s what I’m here to do.
Read on →This is pretty much a transcription of http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/fixsudo, which is just such a good article I wanted to keep a copy for reference.
The way that Ubuntu has implemented sudo, the /etc/sudoers file says that users in the admin group can (after a password authentication) temporarily escalate to system-wide privileges for particular tasks. And then the /etc/groups file says which users are in the admin group.
You can read more on the community documentation about Ubuntu’s implementation of sudo.
Read on →My Ruby workflow as of late has almost always contained Git for version control, and Pry for debugging.
Although it’s extremely convenient during development to add a quick breakpoint using binding.pry, it can be a bit frustrating to clients if you accidentally deploy with these breakpoints still intact.
As much as I enjoy Ubuntu, I haven’t warmed to their Unity desktop. I personally find it’s too similar to OS X, I don’t really like the launcher with larger icons, the global menu, the shifted window control buttons, notification area changes .. etc.
Since it’s based on GTK3, I know you can modify this all, but I’d rather just use a desktop environment that doesn’t require that level of tweaking.
Enter Cinnamon. Cinnamon is developed by the Linux Mint team, which has a distribution based on Ubuntu.
Over at the LinuxBSDOS blog, there was an article on how to get Cinnamon installed in the latest Ubuntu.
I found that after doing this, I ended up with no sound. To fix this, AskUbuntu has an article that I found useful.
I spend a lot of time working in a terminal, and I like to spend that time listening to music. Since I work primarly in Linux, I was hoping there would be an easy way to merge these two activities … and it turns out there was :)
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