A simple statistics plugin for Wordpress Feb 18, 2008

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Tags: Blogging, Programming, Software, Statistics, Wordpress

Here’s a very simple plugin for Wordpress that keeps track of view counts of individual pages. It is not intended to be a complete statistics solution. Rather, the main purpose is to provide something for those empty spots in your site layout.

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C masochism, part 1 Sep 15, 2007

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Tags: Geeks, Programming

I like C. I write tools in C that sane people write in Ruby or whatever the trendy script-like loosely typed language of the week is. But this is not about which language to choose. This is about doing stuff in C just because a lot of people think it’s 1.) limited, 2.) hard and [...]

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Hardware-accelerated 2D collision detection in OpenGL Jul 11, 2007

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Tags: OpenGL, Programming, Quake 2, Side-scroller, Video

I wrote a better document about the algorithm. Includes source code.
The idea
Did you know you can do pixel accurate collision detection using the OpenGL stencil buffer and occlusion queries? I got this idea while working on a 2D/3D game engine (think of a side-scroller but with 3D objects).

A proof that this actually works [...]

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