Ruby Game Library

Game libraries fascinate me no end, I'll write something just to play around but I have never complete any meaningful games for the past 2 decades. Sigh.

Anyway, I just came across a Ruby game library. Looks fascinating. I could learn Ruby just to figure out how this works.

http://mon-ouie.github.com/projects/ray.html

Let's see how far my itch takes me.

Page to unlock AD accounts

I've not touch IIS and C# for a long, long time, and I'm just curious enough to want to write something that I've been itching to write for a long time - like having a web page to unlock AD accounts.

My current role is a pure Word+Powerpoint+Spreadsheet kind of job(yeah boring I know) so I'm bored enough to try this. Let's see what I can come up with in the weekend.

The lazy coder vs Garbage Collection

Automated Garbage Collection has made me lazy.

I'm building a libgdx android gamelet for the past few days and I've intentionally left a few dynamically created primitives in my game loop to hammer out the logic first.

Game performance wasn't enough to irritate me until I started adding Strings for status display updates. Boom, jerky gameplay every 20-30 seconds! LogCat was showing GC triggering every 20 odd seconds for as much as 300 milliseconds. Close to 8k objects were being recycled. Ouch.

Went through the code and weeded out for(int i=.......) codes. Removed variable creations in critical functions. Replaced Strings with StringBuffers(I finally realized libgdx BitmapFont.draw uses CharSequence interface instead of String object.. d'oh.

Game is looking good now. No more GC triggering for the past few minutes.

Dell 24X7 Support number: SINGAPORE

Can't find the Dell 24X7 support number via their webpages, normally this won't be a problem because I was in shop that had tons of Dell hardware, the support number is pasted on almost every server in our datacenters

Now that I've left my previous job, I'm kinda stuck when I need to log a call about my dying Alienware. I'm putting this for anyone who's trying to find the 24X7 support number for Singapore

24x7 Phone support: 1800-394-7464

Good luck!