Not Rocket Science

When it comes to PC Engine CD-ROM² System Card compatibility, the answer is usually "The Super System Card 3.0 will play every game... except for one".

If you look at the layout of a PC Engine CD-ROM² game, you will probably find a disc that has two data tracks: I thought this was pretty unusual - as someone mostly familiar with home computers and later CD-based consoles, I usually expect a single data t…

The PC Engine CD-ROM² consists of a HuCard containing a BIOS, which interfaces with the actual CD-ROM drive and serves as a bare-bones operating system of sorts for CD-ROM games.

When it comes to playing fighting games or certain arcade/MAME games, an Arcade Stick can be nicer than a gamepad.

Most ATX Mainboards have somewhere between 3 and 5 PCI Express slots.

One of the nice things about .net is that you can automatically generate an .xml file for the xmldoc comments.

Nonograms - also known as Griddlers, Picture Crosswords, or Picross - are pretty cool puzzles, kind of like a more visual Crossword puzzle or Sudoku.

It's been a few months since I released Simplexcel 2.0.0, which was a major change in that it added .net Standard support, and can be used on .net Core, incl.

A while ago I put up a post showcasing adventure game GUIs, without really going into much details about them.

A while ago, I wanted to set up a backup strategy.

Tresor is a .net library (.net 4/netstandard 1.3 or newer) to generate passwords in a deterministic way, that is, the same inputs will yield the same outputs, but from simple inputs (Like the service name twitter and the passphrase I'm the best 17-year old

A couple of years ago, I created a simple .net Library to create Excel .xlsx sheets without the need to do any COM Interop or similar nonsense, so that it can be used on a web server.

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Here's a few git settings that I prefer to set, now that I actually work on projects with other people and care for a useful history. git config --global branch.master.mergeoptions "--squash" This always squashes merges into master.

Setting up IIS usually results in some error (403, 500...) at first.

For a lot of Front End JavaScript work, our browser has become the de-facto IDE thanks to powerful built-in tools in Firefox, Chrome or Edge.

This is a bit of a follow up to my old 2011 Thoughts on ORM post.

I have a custom DNS Server (running Linux) and I also have a server running Linux ("MyServer").

Stack Overflow has been expanding past the English-speaking community for a while, and with the launch of both a Japanese version of Stack Overflow and a Japanese Language Stack Exchange (for English speakers interested in learning Japanese) we now have p…

One of the hidden useful gems in the .net Framework is the System.Security.Cryptography.Xml.SignedXml class, which allows to sign XML documents, and validate the signature of signed XML documents.

I have an app.config with some custom sectionGroups: <configSections> <sectionGroup name="MyApp"> <section name="foo" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, Public…

George R.R.

My local Apple store happened to have a Space Gray Macbook in stock, so I picked it up.

One of the more strange LucasArts adventures, The Dig is essentially a science fiction movie with some interaction.

Imagine Philip Marlowe turning down the job from General Sternwood at the beginning of The Big Sleep.

I'm normally a .net developer, it's been my bread and butter for the past seven years and will be for several more.

I've been working with Docbook V5.0 a bit and started working on some processing tools to support my workflow.

You may think "Whoa, that's a whole bunch on obsolete technology!"

I'm currently looking into Commodore 64 game development again, and one of the interesting questions is "How to display the graphics?"

This is Pac-Man on the Atari 2600, played on an Emulator.

When working with angles, I'm used to degrees. 90 degrees is a right angle, 360 degrees is a full circle.

It's been fifteen years since I had math in school, and even then trigonometry was barely just touched on.

A while ago I created my own, simple Excel .xlsx creation library for .net 4.0+.

On April 6, 2008, Jeff Atwood asked for help naming his little project.

The .net Framework comes with a validation system, called Data Annotations.

Yeah, I’m late to the party, sue me if you want 🙂 Anyway, I’ve just finished implementing OAuth on both a server and client, using .net for an additional challenge, OAuth 1.0a is a decent protocol.

In 1997, there was a game that was not simply great but truly genre-shaping - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Adventure Games went a long way from the Text Adventures of the 80’s to be something like an anachronism in the 2010’s landscape that’s dominated by twitch-based action games.

Typical Adventures increase the complexity and difficulty of the game gradually and like movie scripts, they often have several distinct parts.

I’m just setting up my Commodore 64 again for some authentic gaming.

As you might have gathered from my previous posting about Adventure Games, I’ve spent a lot of time recently playing these games and while there are many different details that I loved in different games, there was one game that stood out because every as…

As part of almost every application I work on, I need to create Excel sheets one way or the other, usually from an ASP.net MVC application.

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I’m currently playing and replaying a lot of adventure games, in order to dissect their individual parts and really understand what I like and dislike about them.

There is a bit of a discussion going on in the Twitterverse about whether or not you should learn programming, started by Jeff Atwood and picked up by others.

As I said before, I absolutely love story driven games.

Today, Github was hit by a security vulnerability that was caused by not properly dealing with model class fields that were not passed in by the form.

I am a gamer.

I'm participating in this years NaNoWriMo, something I missed last year.

There is an updated post, written in August 2016: https://stum.de/2016/08/24/thoughts-on-orms-2016-edition/ It's hard to imagine a world without OR/Ms anymore.