If anyone remembers my old GCC & GLUT Tutorial (which seems to be the second webpage listed when looking up "GCC and GLUT" on Google), you may remember how simple that was.
Well it's been a while (like three going on four years) since I've made any improvements to that page. On the other hand, I'm pretty happy with it's simple use of PHP, which is important because if you don't really do anything with it for a while, you tend to forget everything!
So it is so very important to stick with a programming idea and keep practicing it. Much like how baseball players practice every day before they play a game.
Today, I am revisiting some OpenGL stuff. It's been over two years since college and there are a couple of programs that I worked on that still interest me. On one hand it gives me an excuse to play around with some math including calculus and numerical analyais. On the other hand, it gives me something good to that invovles programming.
My OOP system is now in place. If you are reading this post, you are already seeing it in action.
This box system is the most flexable. Until I mix in some MySQL or Drizzle for database support. When this happens, categories and tags may become a reality in the future.
I want to add translucent features to my boxes. You can see them in action in the header of this page. Translucent features have been around for some time. But their compatiblity is still in the weeds. Before Firefox came out in 2004, Internet Explorer used text effects, which were fun to play with, but not compatible with W3C standards. So there usage was mothballed until W3C could find something compatible that worked with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Opacity found its way into the CSS3 standards, which Open Source and Firefox users liked.
Those aren't words that any employer likes to hear, then again, I've been very presentable at just about every job fair I've been to.
The recent updates to this page were originally part of another project that I made for someone who was not impressed with it. But rather than let rejected code that much time and work went into be discarded, improvements will be made.
I believe in this code. I thought is was good code. I still think it is good code. So what if it is not the most impressive code. I know I can make it into better code.
Until then, check out the blog or my Twitter page.
Never undestimate code! It may not be the most beautiful code, but it is good reliable code.
Q: So what is going on with this page?
A: Nothing much so far. Eventually, I plan on integrating my old portfolio with this page. Until I can make this page more presentable, I encourage you to check it out.
Q: Why isn't the blog on the front page?
A: I wanted to draw attention to my skills as a programmer/developer. This page looked alot worst at first, but at least it is written manually. There are many people who don't know how to program with out some form of IDE (Integrated Development Environment). I am use this page to demostrate that I can write without an IDE. Secondly, a simple text editing program, like Vim, is really all that is necessary to write code. You can add or enable features that can make writing code more efficent, but not make it distracting or obsfucated.
Why are you using Wordpress instead of Blogger this time?
First, I would like to acknowlege, that Blogger was a good peiece of software. I used it since 2001, even before Google picked it up and made some good improvements. But Blogger is ideal for people who are starting out. Wordpress seems to be more experienced. This page is not written using Wordpress, but the new blog is. This splash page borrowed a few ideas from Wordpress, but uses a special blend of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) that PHP provides.