I’ve been poking around at the edge of 3D game development for a long time. (continued…)

I was hoping to start using Visual Studio 2005 as my primary Windows compiler, but this warning from the boost home page was holding me back:

Note: Boost does not support the non-standard “Safe” C++ Library shipping with Visual C++ 8.0, which may result in many spurious warnings from Boost headers and other standards-conforming C++ code. To suppress these warnings, define the macro _SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE.

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From the “ain’t that pretty at all” dept…

Consolidated my slashcode, b2evolution and wordpress blogs… man I have some formatting work to do… and I hereby officially pledge to find a way to reduce redundant useless time-wasting blogosphere noise… (right after this useless post)… I will have to find a way to set up categories that don’t show up on the main page, like I had in slashcode…

From the “Corporate Software Purge” department…Old winzip backup command:

wzzip -u -r -p -ybc -whs -bC:\ %backupdir%\%projname%.zip -i@%backupdir%\Files.txt

New 7zip backup command:

7z a -r -y -tzip %backupdir%\%projname%.zip @%backupdir%\Files.txt

Simple!

OK the internet is great ’cause it’s full of information, and the internet sucks ’cause it’s full of information, not all of it good or what you need. I have spent a lot of time looking for an online equivalent of a well-written perl book (I’ll spend 5 hours searching instead of buying a $30 book ’cause I’m cheap like that). I think the perl community knows O’Reilly and others have some good books, and why write new online docs if good books already exist? I haven’t found good online results for simple tasks like searching and replacing across multiple lines. Until I went to Google Books. Boom, there she was. (continued…)