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Rants, Raves, and Tutorials.
From the future: Ever get tired of looking for things online that have just vanished? This page saves some of my old writing from the early 2000's. Only minimal edits for the current hosting solution, basic fixes for rendering, and a couple tweaks to make things work on modern Linux. The style is kept from an earlier version of this site. The tutorials and content here were all current and worked when it was written. Maybe it still does if you get an old debian CD... For the most part, I haven't taken the trouble to make even the most basic effort for citing works in these papers. (Although I would never copy/paste or even paraphrase material without giving credit...) If you want *Boring* authoritative reporting and journals, go read slashdot. If you want sarcastic talk, feel at home to look around. In short - I don't want my mail box cluttered with messages about crappy spelling, grammer, and my need to use a spellcheck or grammer checker. If you are one of those, I'd encourage you - in your own language as explained to the world by an Unknown individual - to "eat canine fecal matter and cease to exist as a biological unit". SDL Tutorials SDL Programming Tutorial 1 - Basic use of SDL. Introduction to the SDL library. Includes sample code. This issue covers creating an SDL surface and initializing SDL. SDL Programming Tutorial 2 - Dealing with SDL Events, and basic Window management. SDL Programming Tutorial 3 - Dealing with Sprites! SDL Programming Tutorial 4 - This tutorial covers loading bitmap images and displaying them on the screen. SDL Programming Guide SDL Programming - Guide 1 - Using SDL for basic tile scrolling(and large images). Scons Tutorials Scons Tutorial 1 - Introduction to Scons Scons Tutorial 2 - More Syntax, Shared Libraries, Install Targets Rants! Stop the Autoconf Insanity! Is autoconf really all it's cracked up to be? What can be done to better build systems?

Rants, Raves, and Tutorials.

From the future: Ever get tired of looking for things online that have just vanished? This page saves some of my old writing from the early 2000's. Only minimal edits for the current hosting solution, basic fixes for rendering, and a couple tweaks to make things work on modern Linux. The style is kept from an earlier version of this site. The tutorials and content here were all current and worked when it was written. Maybe it still does if you get an old debian CD...

For the most part, I haven't taken the trouble to make even the most basic effort for citing works in these papers. (Although I would never copy/paste or even paraphrase material without giving credit...) If you want Boring authoritative reporting and journals, go read slashdot. If you want sarcastic talk, feel at home to look around. In short - I don't want my mail box cluttered with messages about crappy spelling, grammer, and my need to use a spellcheck or grammer checker. If you are one of those, I'd encourage you - in your own language as explained to the world by an Unknown individual - to "eat canine fecal matter and cease to exist as a biological unit".

SDL Tutorials

SDL Programming Tutorial 1 - Basic use of SDL. Introduction to the SDL library. Includes sample code. This issue covers creating an SDL surface and initializing SDL.

SDL Programming Tutorial 2 - Dealing with SDL Events, and basic Window management.

SDL Programming Tutorial 3 - Dealing with Sprites!

SDL Programming Tutorial 4 - This tutorial covers loading bitmap images and displaying them on the screen.

SDL Programming Guide

SDL Programming - Guide 1 - Using SDL for basic tile scrolling(and large images).

Scons Tutorials

Scons Tutorial 1 - Introduction to Scons

Scons Tutorial 2 - More Syntax, Shared Libraries, Install Targets

Rants!

Stop the Autoconf Insanity! Is autoconf really all it's cracked up to be? What can be done to better build systems?