As part of my continuing exploration of Yaml I’m putting together a rough spec for a simplified subset of Yaml. I will be updating it from time to time in order to give it a little more polish.
As part of this effort I am also going to put together a simple reference implementation which […]
In Search of a Simpler Yaml
January 10th, 2007YAML
January 5th, 2007I love YAML.
It’s an easy to understand structural text format with a lot of promise for games. In my book I’m using YAML for all my examples because, even without in-depth explanations on syntax, people can intuitively grasp the meaning of simple YAML documents.
It’s eminently grokable.
Yet YAML has a problem, primarily: one of adoption. […]
R-Objects
December 12th, 2006This pattern provides a new way to model connections between game objects.
New look
December 11th, 2006I’ve always been curious about web-development software but I’ve never actually gotten my hands dirty with anything other than HTML or Flash before.
Its of course impossible to have been in software development and not have picked up bits here and there, but I’ve never actually tried to doing anything even moderately interesting web-wise with PHP […]
A Compression Survey
July 28th, 2006I did some brief research online today because I really needed a refresher on the state of off-the-shelf compression routines. In what follows I try to provide a relatively short, high level, survey of what’s out there. Though I do touch on which major algorithms exist, I try to stay away from the details on […]
In search of blogging software
July 21st, 2006I’ve been looking at blogging support software a bit this morning; First of all, to keep up with other people’s blogging, ive just installed Sage and LinkChecker. Sage seems pretty good so far, though I wish I could actually see my bookmark folders and sage at the same time.
There’s a couple of more things I […]
first update
July 20th, 2006just updated my about page — take a look.
-simon.
beginnings
July 17th, 2006just installed wordpress this morning — looks great ( in my opinion )
wish i had more time to play with it but have to head out to a meeting.
near term ionous work:
setup information about the site
add some information about me
begin adding some articles
i figure probably about a month to get the site looking like, and […]