Category Archives: Code

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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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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Awesome regex test tool

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Bob Somers

So I’m working with a friend to develop a regex that matches something out of an API response, when we really wish we could quickly prototype a regex. Now, there are plenty of tools to do this, some are even … Continue reading →

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Know your text editor

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Bob Somers

Let’s examine why it’s important as a programmer to really know your text editor, but in a different light that usual. Traditionally programmers are concerned with knowing all the tricks of their editor so that they can make use of … Continue reading →

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