A Blog About Random Computer Subjects
Frank DeCaire Introduction Several months ago, I started learning Unity. I ran through some of the tutorials on-line and learned the basics of how Unity works. I know that tutorials will teach all the basics, but I also know that to really learn something, you need to build something real. For me, I usually choose a subject … Read moreLearning Unity
In my last post, I talked about MonoGame and I had several other MonoGame subjects lined up. The next subject was going to be the use of shaders. There are a few articles on XNA Pixel shaders and vertex shaders that are pretty good. Unfortunately, they were written for versions of XNA before version 4 … Read moreUnity
It’s time to learn texture mapping! I’m going to show the easiest example possible: Texture mapping a cube using Blender (version 2.79b). Before we get started, let’s create a new project in Monogame. As before, just select a new Monogame Windows Project. Then create a texture. Your texture needs to be a square image that … Read moreMonogame and Blender (Part 3)
If you’re using YouTrack bug and issue tracker, you probably already know that there is an API for automating bulk tasks. Unfortunately, as of this blog posting, there is not a lot of information on how to use the new API. Many of the blog posts on the Internet reference methods that worked in the … Read moreUsing YouTrack Sharp V3
In my last post in this series (click here for part 1), I described all the details necessary to get a C# Monogame up and running using objects exported from Blender. In this post, I’m going to go more in depth and describe how to animate an object and how to handle multiple objects in … Read moreMonogame and Blender (Part 2)
One of my favorite gaming graphic library used to be XNA. Microsoft discontinued the library but was ported to Monogame which is open-source and cross-platform. If you’re interested in writing 3D games and you don’t know where to start, I’m going to show you how. As a hobby, I’ve written 3D games in the past … Read moreMonogame and Blender (Part 1)
Introduction This is a continuation of the Scaling Horizontally blog posts that I started earlier (see part 1 and part 2). In those articles I used an MMORPG game as an example program/system to scale horizontally. If you read part 2, you’ll remember my discussion on using Redis to store the active map soldiers. In … Read moreQuerying Redis with Lua
Summary I’m going to change it up a bit by rendering some graphics. In this post I’m going to use the Canvas object in HTML5. In the past I’ve written programs to render graphics in SilverLight and when SVG became part of HTML5, I’ve built software that used SVG. I’ve also written software to use … Read moreWorking with HTML5 Canvas
I’ve discussed using the in-memory database object for Entity Framework in the blog post titled: Dot Net Core In Memory Unit Testing Using xUnit. That was for .Net Core 1.1. Now I’m going to show a larger example of the in-memory database object for .Net Core 2.0. There is only one minor difference in the … Read moreUnit Testing EF Data With Core 2.0
Summary In this blog post, I’m going to introduce the JWT (pronounced “jot”) token concept. I’m going to use the code presented in this article (click here) to demonstrate how a token is created and then I’ll discuss the parts of the token and how it is used. Sample Token Using the article code, I … Read moreJWT Tokens