Author Archives: Bob Somers

Compiling Lua with Visual Studio 2010

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Bob Somers

It’s not often I have to venture into the Microsoftland development environment, but when I do it always seems to take me a while to get used to their visual projects instead of good ‘ole Makefiles. I’ve been using Lua … Continue reading →

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Installing TrueType Fonts in Fedora

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Bob Somers

I’ve haven’t written recently because I was completely bogged down finishing up my Bachelors degree and applying to grad schools, but here’s a quick tip for those of you looking for a painless way to install third party TrueType fonts … Continue reading →

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Fixing the Fedora 12 VirtualBox Guest Additions problem

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Bob Somers

I’m a frequent VirtualBox user, and as I’ve noted in my previous posts, I’m an avid fan of Fedora as well. However, there is a nasty bug in the most recent version of VirtualBox (3.1.2) when combined with Fedora 12. … Continue reading →

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Include dependencies

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Bob Somers

Generally when I write software, I try to keep things relatively well organized. Inevitably, however, things are going to get a bit messy, especially if you’re working on a large, disorganized codebase that you didn’t write to begin with… say, … Continue reading →

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Removing entities in the Source SDK

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Bob Somers

I haven’t written for a while, mainly because I’ve been busy with classes and studying for the GRE for my grad school applications, but here’s a quick tip for those of you meddling around with the Source SDK. It’s well … Continue reading →

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