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New Blog - New Host!
« on: August 10, 2016, 08:35:18 am »
Hello SFML family. Lately I've had a lot of time on my hands so I decided to start a blog! Blog is going to have general technology stuff I find interesting and also SFML tutorials. I just finished a tutorial on how to make a Picking Sticks game. The blog is not for teaching beginners in C++ how to code C++ or build SFML or any of that setup stuff. It's just for quick simple little projects and show something new and cool to do with SFML.

Some ideas, comments and criticisms are always welcomed!

https://ricanteja.wordpress.com/
https://ricanteja.github.io/index.html
« Last Edit: November 14, 2016, 01:23:05 am by Ricky »
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Re: New Blog - Syntactic Stevia
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2016, 01:07:58 am »
Cool! Took me a bit until I got the name of the blog, haha. :)

Are you planing to switch to SFML 2.4 now?
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Re: New Blog - Syntactic Stevia
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2016, 07:48:08 pm »
Cool! Took me a bit until I got the name of the blog, haha. :)

Are you planing to switch to SFML 2.4 now?

Absolutely! Really exciting time for SFML devs! I'm eyeing some really cool projects here on the SFML boards I'm going to be writing articles about as well. Here are the articles in the line up.

Texture Atlas and Sprite Batching
SFML Update 2.4 Released
Fast Entity Component System
Ping Pong project
Snake project
Lawnmower Man - Example of code reuse
Writing an SFML backend for Nuklear GUI
Picking Sticks - Post Mortem
Hacking Picking Sticks with OllyDBG

Thanks for giving the blog an eye. I really appreciate it.  ;)
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Re: New Blog - Syntactic Stevia
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2016, 09:34:14 pm »
Wow, that's one nice line up right there. :D
Will definitely look forward to some of your articles then.
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Re: New Blog - Syntactic Stevia
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2016, 07:46:09 am »
Okay so I know I haven't been doing much progress but a lot has happened since the last 3 articles I wrote. I had been really fighting with Wordpress to make my latest article, Texture Atlases and Sprite Batching, when I decided to just quit and go over to Jekyll (like Elias did).

I however didn't just want to go over to Jekyll and just used a prebuilt theme, no no that would be too simple and I love to over complicate my life so I decided to make my theme completly from scratch. I even made a logo for myself.

Things I've learned in a week and a half.
Jekyll
Inkscape
SVG are just XML
animating SVG with CSS

So here is the work in progress version of the site. It's still not done yet but the general layout is starting to be visible.

https://ricanteja.github.io

I'd love some comments of criticism. The blog will be moved to this site when its finished.
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« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2016, 04:36:02 pm »
Hehe, who doesn't know these rabbit holes where you end up doing a ton of stuff, but not what you originally wanted to do. :D

The new design looks awesome!

Personally I would prefer using a dedicated domain, so one is not dependent on other company's domain service and any future change could happen transparently. But maybe that's just me. ;)
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Re: AW: New Blog - New Host!
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2016, 10:49:11 pm »
Hehe, who doesn't know these rabbit holes where you end up doing a ton of stuff, but not what you originally wanted to do. :D

The new design looks awesome!

Personally I would prefer using a dedicated domain, so one is not dependent on other company's domain service and any future change could happen transparently. But maybe that's just me. ;)

It'll happen when the budget comes :)
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Re: New Blog - New Host!
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2016, 01:25:12 am »
New blog based on Jekyll! Following in the footsteps of Elias (I totally understand why he dumped Wordpress) I moved over to Github + Jekyll too. However instead of using a premade template I designed my website from scratch, logo and all. Learned a lot of valuable skills that I hope to never use again because I hate web design with a passion but that is besides the point. Sorry for getting side tracked. I hope to be writing articles a lot more regularly.

https://ricanteja.github.io/index.html


Wow lol I totally forgot I already posted this. My memory must be really bad! What I meant to say was: New article, intro to SFML series transfered from old blog is now up. Man my memory is bad. I really need to sleep more.
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