diff --git a/blog/2024/linux-mint-cinnamon-theme-on-debian.html b/blog/2024/linux-mint-cinnamon-theme-on-debian.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..198fb05
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@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+Install Linux Mint Cinnamon Themes on Debian
As a long time Windows user it probably is no surprise that I enjoy using the Cinnamon Desktop
+Environment. Although I have used and enjoyed using Linux Mint one goal I had when I started replacing Windows
+throughout my house was to be the same distribution on differnt machines. So I settled on installing Debian
+everywhere and customizing it to each systems individual needs.
+
I wanted to run Cinnamon on my Thinkpad Laptop and Debian can install
+it out of the box. The only problem is the defaykt theme leaves a lot to be deisred. Luckily the theme from Linux Mint
+can installed using a few commands from the terminal.
After running these commands the Linux Mint will be available for selection in the Themes application. The current versions
+of the individual repositories can be checked on GitHub.
+
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diff --git a/blog/page10.html b/blog/page10.html
index b149167..e40f146 100644
--- a/blog/page10.html
+++ b/blog/page10.html
@@ -1,27 +1,14 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
I haven't written anything new here in a very long time and a lot has happened since then. I started a new job at
+BeumerGroup this year and now work mostly in TypeScript writing an html5 spa app.
+
In my spare time I've decided to working on version 2.0 of my Snowball,
+my 2D game framework. I've been playing around with the idea for a while now. This version will be developed directly
+for .net core and will be developed with cross platform capability in mind. The api will look similar but will have
+some changes.
Visual Studio Code allows you specify tasks which can be in a task runner. Most examples
I've seen show how to integrate with Javascript task runners such as Gulp. There is no reason why you can't simpley use
batch files though.
This is a problem that has bitten me more than a few times so I thought it was about time to write a blog post about it. It's one of those problems
that makes you scratch your head for a bit and then the light bulb goes on and you remember you've solved this one before. It occurs whenever you
use a LINQ extension method which takes an instance of IEqualityComaparer.
I've struggled a lot with myself over whether I should use OpenGL or Direct3D. There is no blanket answer to this question that anyone can tell you.
Both APIs have a very different feel and which one you prefer can only be decided on your own.
We have had 2 interns at work for the past few weeks and one of the tasks we gave them was to implement Quicksort.
-This got me to thinking about my youth and some of the code I wrote back then. I've decided to post it.
In the Roslyn preview that was released at Build 2014 the way references to global assmeblies are added was changed. Before the preview I could use code like this:
-
var compilation = Compilation.Create(assemblyName, new CompilationOptions(OutputKind.DynamicallyLinkedLibrary))
- .AddReferences(MetadataReference.CreateAssemblyReference("mscorlib"))
- .AddReferences(MetadataReference.CreateAssemblyReference("System"))
- .AddReferences(MetadataReference.CreateAssemblyReference("System.Core"))
- .AddReferences(new MetadataFileReference(this.GetType().Assembly.Location))
- .AddSyntaxTrees(syntaxTree);
-
-
The static factory method "MetadataReference.CreateAssemblyReference" added a reference to global assemblies such as "mscorlib.dll" or "System.dll". In the Roslyn preview,
-the same be achieved like so:
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diff --git a/blog/page11.html b/blog/page11.html
index a7cbfbf..e181154 100644
--- a/blog/page11.html
+++ b/blog/page11.html
@@ -1,4 +1,24 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
Seems like all the cool kids these days have converted their websites to completely static ones. I'm looking at you Mr. Haacked. I thought this was a pretty cool idea and a chance
+
In the Roslyn preview that was released at Build 2014 the way references to global assmeblies are added was changed. Before the preview I could use code like this:
+
var compilation = Compilation.Create(assemblyName, new CompilationOptions(OutputKind.DynamicallyLinkedLibrary))
+ .AddReferences(MetadataReference.CreateAssemblyReference("mscorlib"))
+ .AddReferences(MetadataReference.CreateAssemblyReference("System"))
+ .AddReferences(MetadataReference.CreateAssemblyReference("System.Core"))
+ .AddReferences(new MetadataFileReference(this.GetType().Assembly.Location))
+ .AddSyntaxTrees(syntaxTree);
+
+
The static factory method "MetadataReference.CreateAssemblyReference" added a reference to global assemblies such as "mscorlib.dll" or "System.dll". In the Roslyn preview,
+the same be achieved like so:
Seems like all the cool kids these days have converted their websites to completely static ones. I'm looking at you Mr. Haacked. I thought this was a pretty cool idea and a chance
to really refresh my website so I decided to take a stab at it. It's currently a work in progress.
I ended up writing my own tool I call Gatsby to do it. I also set up the whole deploy process myself involving pushing to Github
which then informs my website to pull from the Github repository. Hopefully that will be a blog post in the not too distance future.
@@ -24,7 +44,4 @@
Changelog:
byte and sbyte are now mapped correctly in generated code.
Fixed the naming of some functions so as not to include type notation, i.e. Color4u.
Today I released a project I've been playing around with for a year or so on Codeplex. It's called GLDotNet. From the project description:
-
C# wrapper for OpenGL. Partially generated from the OpenGL spec and partially written by hand, the aim is to have a flexible and native feeling C# binding.
-
I have generated functions from the OpenGL spec excluding 1 or 2 but unfortunately of the generated code is untested. There is a demo project included in the source code. The Github repository is located here: https://github.com/smack0007/GLDotNet
-
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+
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diff --git a/blog/page12.html b/blog/page12.html
index c2143c6..ac5b246 100644
--- a/blog/page12.html
+++ b/blog/page12.html
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
Today I released a project I've been playing around with for a year or so on Codeplex. It's called GLDotNet. From the project description:
+
C# wrapper for OpenGL. Partially generated from the OpenGL spec and partially written by hand, the aim is to have a flexible and native feeling C# binding.
+
I have generated functions from the OpenGL spec excluding 1 or 2 but unfortunately of the generated code is untested. There is a demo project included in the source code. The Github repository is located here: https://github.com/smack0007/GLDotNet
I fixed a bug yesterday in Snowball related to a lost graphics device. I noticed that when I would use CTRL + ALT + DELETE, my apps were crashing. Turned out it was due to not recovering properly from a lost device.
The root of the problem was that I needed to call the ID3DXEffect::OnLostDevice() method when the device was being lost. This allows the effect to recover from the lost device. I've made the Effect class in Snowball now do this automatically.
I've now merged the "Shaders" branch back into the "master" branch. All rendering is now based on shaders and no longer on the fixed function pipeline.
-
The function of the Renderer class was essentially been reduced to pushing data to the GPU and therefore I decided to rename the class to GraphicsBatch. The Begin() overload which would allow you to specify RendererSettings has been removed and been replaced with an overload which allows you to specify an Effect file to use. Also, the DrawLine() method has been removed, although vertical and horizontal lines can still be drawn using the DrawFilledRectangle() method. Better line drawing should be possible through shaders and I hope to eventually make a sample which provides an example.
-
I've added a sample (pictured above) which demonstrates using a custom shader. By default, GraphicsBatch uses a BasicEffect class which is basically the old way of rendering implemented in a shader.
-
In order for shaders to work properly when using GraphicsBatch, the GraphicsBatch class must pass a few parameters to the shader. At the moment, this only includes a transform matrix but may include more parameters in the future. The GraphicsBatchEffectWrapper can be used to wrap custom effects which you write in order to work with GraphicsBatch correctly. GraphicsBatchEffectWrapper will pass the parameters to your shader by following a standard naming convention. For example, the transform matrix is passed to your shader through a parameter named "TransformMatrix". You can also write you own class which implements IGraphicsBatchEffect. See the sample for an example of using the wrapper class.
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diff --git a/blog/page13.html b/blog/page13.html
index eb76523..e0c3b07 100644
--- a/blog/page13.html
+++ b/blog/page13.html
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
It's been a long couple of months. I'm in the middle of switching jobs, been on vacation a bit, and have been playing around with OpenGL a bit to get a feel for how that API works compared to Direct3D. As of yesterday I started working on implementing shaders in Snowball.
I've now merged the "Shaders" branch back into the "master" branch. All rendering is now based on shaders and no longer on the fixed function pipeline.
+
The function of the Renderer class was essentially been reduced to pushing data to the GPU and therefore I decided to rename the class to GraphicsBatch. The Begin() overload which would allow you to specify RendererSettings has been removed and been replaced with an overload which allows you to specify an Effect file to use. Also, the DrawLine() method has been removed, although vertical and horizontal lines can still be drawn using the DrawFilledRectangle() method. Better line drawing should be possible through shaders and I hope to eventually make a sample which provides an example.
+
I've added a sample (pictured above) which demonstrates using a custom shader. By default, GraphicsBatch uses a BasicEffect class which is basically the old way of rendering implemented in a shader.
+
In order for shaders to work properly when using GraphicsBatch, the GraphicsBatch class must pass a few parameters to the shader. At the moment, this only includes a transform matrix but may include more parameters in the future. The GraphicsBatchEffectWrapper can be used to wrap custom effects which you write in order to work with GraphicsBatch correctly. GraphicsBatchEffectWrapper will pass the parameters to your shader by following a standard naming convention. For example, the transform matrix is passed to your shader through a parameter named "TransformMatrix". You can also write you own class which implements IGraphicsBatchEffect. See the sample for an example of using the wrapper class.
It's been a long couple of months. I'm in the middle of switching jobs, been on vacation a bit, and have been playing around with OpenGL a bit to get a feel for how that API works compared to Direct3D. As of yesterday I started working on implementing shaders in Snowball.
In order to implement shaders or Effect(s), there may have to be a few changes to the API / interface of the Renderer class. Nothing significant I don't think but mainly changes to the Begin() method overloads. Today I pushed the branch which contains my initial implementation.
For a little while, I was thinking about giving up on Snowball. When you're one guy working on a project that gets to a certain size, it can start to feel a little daunting. You find a bug, and you feel like you need to fix it asap. I don't know if anyone reading this has actually tried Snowball, but if you have, please comment to let me know. It would encourage me.
I decided to switch Snowball over to SharpDX. It's not that I was unhappy with SlimDX, it just seems like there is a lot more innovation happening on the SharpDX side. I also like the fact that I can include the DLLs in the repository so end users don't have to download another dependency in order to compile it. The Win8 stuff is also quite interesting, although the SlimDX guys say they are working on that.
@@ -7,16 +11,4 @@
In order to create some kind of documentation on how to use Snowball, I created a Samples folder in the source. In the Samples folder is a WalkingWizard sample. I'm posting this source code here but it can also be viewed on GitHub here.
I've always wanted a program that would allow me have a command line that I could slide in and out of view as needed like the console from Quake. I never could find one and so I finally got decided to write a tool myself. A picture is below and the source code is on GitHub.
I'm not putting a download here as I don't consider this finished just yet.
I originally got the idea for Snowball after working with the Xna Framework. The Xna Framework is a good piece of software for what it is but there are some things about which I just do not agree with:
-
-
The content pipeline only works with content in the serialized .xnb format.
-
There are certain content types which can only be loaded via the content pipeline.
-
Certain features don't exist on the PC because they don't exist on the XBox or Windows Phone 7.
-
-
-
Xna was designed as an abstraction layer for all the 3 platforms mentioned in the last point, so that one is somewhat understandable. I don't want to write games for my XBox right now though, so why should things like drawing lines not be available to me?
-
With these points in mind I started working on Snowball. It's designed to be an Xna like framework for making 2D games. It uses SlimDX on the backend, but that is completely abstracted away from consumers of the framework. What I want to do is design the API so that the backend can be swapped out somewhat painlessly.
-
I still have a ways to go before I will consider it a version 1.0 release. As of this writing, I'm transitioning to more of a ContentLoader class style for loading your game's content. Any resource type from within the framework can be loaded by hand if you want, the ContentLoader class will just make it easier. After that I have a few other features like GamePad and Music which I would like to implement before saying I have a Beta type release.
-
The future after that is up in the air. I would love to try and have different implementations of the API for Xna and/or OpenTK.
-
I recommend for anyone who is interested as to why an API designer choose to implement the API in the way they did to try it for themselves. I have learned many things from this project including why certain design decisions were made by the Xna Framework team.
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diff --git a/blog/page14.html b/blog/page14.html
index 6b9aa18..e780e9e 100644
--- a/blog/page14.html
+++ b/blog/page14.html
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
Just a quick post to hopefully save anyone who finds this some time. If you need to convert a datetime value from a WMI query to a native DateTime object in C#, you can use the method ToDateTime() on the ManagementDateTimeConverter class.
I originally got the idea for Snowball after working with the Xna Framework. The Xna Framework is a good piece of software for what it is but there are some things about which I just do not agree with:
+
+
The content pipeline only works with content in the serialized .xnb format.
+
There are certain content types which can only be loaded via the content pipeline.
+
Certain features don't exist on the PC because they don't exist on the XBox or Windows Phone 7.
+
+
+
Xna was designed as an abstraction layer for all the 3 platforms mentioned in the last point, so that one is somewhat understandable. I don't want to write games for my XBox right now though, so why should things like drawing lines not be available to me?
+
With these points in mind I started working on Snowball. It's designed to be an Xna like framework for making 2D games. It uses SlimDX on the backend, but that is completely abstracted away from consumers of the framework. What I want to do is design the API so that the backend can be swapped out somewhat painlessly.
+
I still have a ways to go before I will consider it a version 1.0 release. As of this writing, I'm transitioning to more of a ContentLoader class style for loading your game's content. Any resource type from within the framework can be loaded by hand if you want, the ContentLoader class will just make it easier. After that I have a few other features like GamePad and Music which I would like to implement before saying I have a Beta type release.
+
The future after that is up in the air. I would love to try and have different implementations of the API for Xna and/or OpenTK.
+
I recommend for anyone who is interested as to why an API designer choose to implement the API in the way they did to try it for themselves. I have learned many things from this project including why certain design decisions were made by the Xna Framework team.
Just a quick post to hopefully save anyone who finds this some time. If you need to convert a datetime value from a WMI query to a native DateTime object in C#, you can use the method ToDateTime() on the ManagementDateTimeConverter class.
At first, I had imagined Snowball, now located on Codeplex, to be a framework which would define how your game objects look. I.E. I had a class called GameEntity which I imagined would handle a lot of boiler plate code for you such as setting up Initialize(), Update(), Draw(), etc.
I've decided to make the switch from using git to Mercurial. Git's syntax to me is much more complicated than it needs to be and Mercurial seems to be more my style. I find it's much easier to find out how to do things with Mercurial and to be honest, I use about 10% of the functionality in either git or Mercurial.
This also means I'll be transitioning Snowball to Codeplex I think. I'll be moving it away from GitHub for sure just not 100% sure where.
In Snowball I was debating adding an empty interface to identify certain classes in my framework as components. I wasn't sure if this was code smell or not so I did some searching on Stackoverflow and found out this concept is actually called "Marker Interfaces". Learn something new every day.
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diff --git a/blog/page15.html b/blog/page15.html
index 5ff62c7..10f7669 100644
--- a/blog/page15.html
+++ b/blog/page15.html
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
I moved the ComponentGlue repository to GitHub. I updated the example slightly and cleaned up some of the source code a little. Need to build a full blown app with it eventually.
In Snowball I was debating adding an empty interface to identify certain classes in my framework as components. I wasn't sure if this was code smell or not so I did some searching on Stackoverflow and found out this concept is actually called "Marker Interfaces". Learn something new every day.
I moved the ComponentGlue repository to GitHub. I updated the example slightly and cleaned up some of the source code a little. Need to build a full blown app with it eventually.
I wrote my second OpenTK app. This time I'm drawing a sprite which you can move around the screen using the keyboard. I've included the source code after the jump or you can download it.
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diff --git a/blog/page16.html b/blog/page16.html
index b8b0eb6..4cde6a7 100644
--- a/blog/page16.html
+++ b/blog/page16.html
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
I started experimenting with OpenTK and I had to look in a few places to put this code together, so I'm posting it here for anyone who might be looking for an easy getting started lesson.
I wrote my second OpenTK app. This time I'm drawing a sprite which you can move around the screen using the keyboard. I've included the source code after the jump or you can download it.
I started experimenting with OpenTK and I had to look in a few places to put this code together, so I'm posting it here for anyone who might be looking for an easy getting started lesson.
I've set up a window similar to what I've been used to in Xna (CornflowerBlue 4 life). I've also set up a 2D projection matrix and drawn a triangle in a 2D fashion. You'll need to add a reference to the OpenTK assembly for your project in Visual Studio.
using System;
using System.Drawing;
@@ -110,8 +110,4 @@
Now we can compose many car types, with any combination of colors and engines and we've only defined one class.
The other day I started an open source project for an IoC Container I call Component Glue. It's in a toy / learning tool status right now and I don't know how far I actually want to take the project. More to come though.
If you need to move a referenced DLL to a different directory after build, add these commands to the "Post Build event command line" box in the "Build Events" tab of the project properties:
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diff --git a/blog/page17.html b/blog/page17.html
index 9965bf0..d65d3ec 100644
--- a/blog/page17.html
+++ b/blog/page17.html
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
If you need to move a referenced DLL to a different directory after build, add these commands to the "Post Build event command line" box in the "Build Events" tab of the project properties:
I recently became interested in doing MVC inside of a Windows Forms app. I found a few MVC frameworks which work with WinForms (see here) but they didn't really interest me. Too heavy I felt for what I was looking to do. I ended up with a solution looking something like this:
-
There is really only one controller and that is the "Application" class. It contains all the methods your app can call to manipulate your models, which are in the "Data" folder / namespace. The "WinFormsApplication" class inherits from the "Application" class and just sets the view to an instance of "WinFormsView". The "Application" class communicates with the view through the "IView" interface. The "WinFormsView" class is a Windows Forms implementation of that view. The "Application" class and your models are not coupled in any way to your Windows Forms implementation of the view.
-
If you want you view to be as dumb as possible, your view can communicate with the "Application" class only through events. In my case though, I choose to go with a smart view and have the view call back to methods in the "Application" class. The "Application" class tells the view when models are loaded and unloaded. The view subscribes to events on the models and reacts to the events.
-
All of my forms and controls communicate with each other through the "WinFormsView" class. One control might change the value of a property in the "WinFormsView" class and another control might subscribe to a change event and update as necessary. This keeps the controls and forms slightly less coupled.
-
It's not a perfect implementation of MVC but it keeps my model logic decoupled enough from my view logic that I can later implement a WPF version of the view I think.
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diff --git a/blog/page18.html b/blog/page18.html
index d7c1cb1..649088d 100644
--- a/blog/page18.html
+++ b/blog/page18.html
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
I recently became interested in doing MVC inside of a Windows Forms app. I found a few MVC frameworks which work with WinForms (see here) but they didn't really interest me. Too heavy I felt for what I was looking to do. I ended up with a solution looking something like this:
+
There is really only one controller and that is the "Application" class. It contains all the methods your app can call to manipulate your models, which are in the "Data" folder / namespace. The "WinFormsApplication" class inherits from the "Application" class and just sets the view to an instance of "WinFormsView". The "Application" class communicates with the view through the "IView" interface. The "WinFormsView" class is a Windows Forms implementation of that view. The "Application" class and your models are not coupled in any way to your Windows Forms implementation of the view.
+
If you want you view to be as dumb as possible, your view can communicate with the "Application" class only through events. In my case though, I choose to go with a smart view and have the view call back to methods in the "Application" class. The "Application" class tells the view when models are loaded and unloaded. The view subscribes to events on the models and reacts to the events.
+
All of my forms and controls communicate with each other through the "WinFormsView" class. One control might change the value of a property in the "WinFormsView" class and another control might subscribe to a change event and update as necessary. This keeps the controls and forms slightly less coupled.
+
It's not a perfect implementation of MVC but it keeps my model logic decoupled enough from my view logic that I can later implement a WPF version of the view I think.
I used this to calculate an angle from the Vector2 of the Left Stick.
-
The original credit for this source code comes from here.
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diff --git a/blog/page19.html b/blog/page19.html
index 41c8217..c8b5927 100644
--- a/blog/page19.html
+++ b/blog/page19.html
@@ -1,4 +1,27 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
So, me and my girlfriend went to see 21 last night and in the movie they make mention of The Game Show Host problem, aka The Monty Hall Problem.
The jist of the problem is this: You are on a game show. The host presents you with 3 doors, 1 of which has a car behind it, the other 2 have goats. The game show host tells you to pick a door. You do so, at which point the game show host opens up a door to show you a goat behind the door and then asks you if you would like to switch your choice to the other closed door. The question is then, should you switch your choice?
The correct answer is yes. More on why after the jump.
I haven't had much time lately with work but one question I've seen asked many many times is how to draw lines of different widths. So, to cut to the chase I'll share the code I've used to do it.
@@ -207,5 +230,4 @@
Which loads a spritesheet with sprites of size 64x64. It then draws the first Sprite in the SpriteSheet. You of course wouldn't want to load the spritesheet every frame as well.
Feel free to use this code without restriction.
Edit: I copied and pasted the second piece of code from somewhere else so I fixed two typos.
In the Zend Framework, using Zend_Db_Table as your model class is not well advised. This practice can force you to put business logic in other places besides your model class. This may not be a big deal if your logic is simple but imagine the logic is fairly complicated. Now also imagine that the logic changes at some point. This can be a problem if you have this logic written in many different places.
-
There's a solution to this problem though. You could write a Model class that uses Zend_Db_Table as a storage medium. Or, you can extend Zend_Db_Table to add your logic to the class. There is a way to simplify this process and that's what this blog post is about.
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diff --git a/blog/page2.html b/blog/page2.html
index 9da055f..ab8367a 100644
--- a/blog/page2.html
+++ b/blog/page2.html
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
I finally sat down and got my blog compiling with deno. Now that there
+is official npm support I didn't need to completely rewrite the compiler which was what was
+stopping me before.
If you have the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) installed then you can use wsl.exe to start
-any linux distribution you have installed from the command prompt. What I recently learned about
-though is that there is a bash.exe as well which can be used to execute a bash script directly.
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diff --git a/blog/page20.html b/blog/page20.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8191adc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blog/page20.html
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The Blog of Zachary Snow
In the Zend Framework, using Zend_Db_Table as your model class is not well advised. This practice can force you to put business logic in other places besides your model class. This may not be a big deal if your logic is simple but imagine the logic is fairly complicated. Now also imagine that the logic changes at some point. This can be a problem if you have this logic written in many different places.
+
There's a solution to this problem though. You could write a Model class that uses Zend_Db_Table as a storage medium. Or, you can extend Zend_Db_Table to add your logic to the class. There is a way to simplify this process and that's what this blog post is about.
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diff --git a/blog/page3.html b/blog/page3.html
index 63ddfd0..7a006c4 100644
--- a/blog/page3.html
+++ b/blog/page3.html
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
If you have the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) installed then you can use wsl.exe to start
+any linux distribution you have installed from the command prompt. What I recently learned about
+though is that there is a bash.exe as well which can be used to execute a bash script directly.
Over the past couple of years my career has moved more and more torwards me becoming
a frontend developer. Since 2018 I've basically been a TypeScript programmer professionally
and the language has really grown on me. Over the last couple of days I've had some
down time so I decided now was the time to reprogram the blog in TypeScript.
I needed to convert a TypeScript AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) to json so that I can consume it in
-a C# application so I wrote a tiny node script to convert the AST to json.
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diff --git a/blog/page4.html b/blog/page4.html
index 34020ed..fbbc61b 100644
--- a/blog/page4.html
+++ b/blog/page4.html
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
I am someone who never made the jump to Powershell and to this day still use my
cmd shell with pride. My cmd is very personalized at this point and is available
on GitHub though I'm not sure how useful it is
for anyone but me. I use git and GitHub to synchronize my cmd between my different
machines.
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diff --git a/blog/page5.html b/blog/page5.html
index 8973c86..c0a9ea9 100644
--- a/blog/page5.html
+++ b/blog/page5.html
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
I decided to switch my blog to use highlightjs instead of the mixture of my own library and
ColorCode. I still wanted everything to rendered statically
@@ -7,10 +7,4 @@
is available for Visual Studio working on Angular projects from inside Visual Studio is a viable option. The linked blog
post mentions a couple of ways of adding the Angular project to Visual Studio but I felt the suggestions left something
to be desired here is what I came up with.
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diff --git a/blog/page6.html b/blog/page6.html
index 7b27a75..be31d17 100644
--- a/blog/page6.html
+++ b/blog/page6.html
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
I want to use TypeScript as a scripting language for my machine and
so I want to be able just to execute TypeScript files directly. There
are npm packages like ts-node
that do this already but I wanted to have a crack at implementing it
@@ -24,14 +30,4 @@
POPD
The new nullable reference types in C# are great but sometimes you might need to disable it for a
-single field or property. You can do that by assigning the value to null and using the ! operator.
This is one of those things that should have just been obvious to me
-but once I saw it I wondered why I had never thought to use it myself.
-nameof() can be used when declaring a variable to set the value of the
-variable to the name of the variable:
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diff --git a/blog/page7.html b/blog/page7.html
index d820540..5c6ccd5 100644
--- a/blog/page7.html
+++ b/blog/page7.html
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
This is one of those things that should have just been obvious to me
+but once I saw it I wondered why I had never thought to use it myself.
+nameof() can be used when declaring a variable to set the value of the
+variable to the name of the variable:
In my library GLESDotNet I load
the libegl.dll and libglesv2.dll DLLs dynamically via the Win32 functions
LoadLibrary
and GetProcAddress.
@@ -25,15 +35,4 @@
be one of 3 possibilities: '?' for null, '0' for false or '1' for true. The problem
sounded easy enough to generate a whole bunch of unit tests for.
I've been inspired lately by Mark Seemann's series of posts about Applicative Functors. One of the latest posts is an example about
creating a full deck of cards. Most of posts up to this
-point have contained a C# example but for some reason this one didn't. This inspired me to take a shot at it.
As of this writing when creating a new console project via dotnet new console the version of C# used in the project
-is version 7.0. This means you're missing out cool features like Default Literal Expressions. The language version
-can be changed via Visual Studio though I prefer to enable it via MSBuild. This can be done in the csproj file
-or globally via a Build.Directory.props file. Changing the C# language version is done via a property known as LangVersion.
This property can set to any of the values listed here. As of
-this writing VS Code doesn't seem to like it when you use 7.3 instead of latest. VS Code will show errors in your code
-although the code will compile without any problems.
-
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+point have contained a C# example but for some reason this one didn't. This inspired me to take a shot at it.Continue reading "Functional Card Deck in C#"
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diff --git a/blog/page8.html b/blog/page8.html
index 472c684..fbe18df 100644
--- a/blog/page8.html
+++ b/blog/page8.html
@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
As of this writing when creating a new console project via dotnet new console the version of C# used in the project
+is version 7.0. This means you're missing out cool features like Default Literal Expressions. The language version
+can be changed via Visual Studio though I prefer to enable it via MSBuild. This can be done in the csproj file
+or globally via a Build.Directory.props file. Changing the C# language version is done via a property known as LangVersion.
This property can set to any of the values listed here. As of
+this writing VS Code doesn't seem to like it when you use 7.3 instead of latest. VS Code will show errors in your code
+although the code will compile without any problems.
I was reading an older blogpost from Mike Hadlow about
Partial Application in C# in which he discusses how
Partial Application can be implemented in C# via
Currying. Although I appreciate his example of implementing currying via extsion
@@ -43,20 +54,4 @@
Whenever I have a program that is just a generator of some kind I like to have that
program execute directly after having built the program successfully. I'm going to show
how to run the program via the dotnet cli but this trick can easily be applied to regular
-.NET programs or any program which is built using MSBuild.
MSBuild version 15 introduced the concept of "Directory.Build.props" files. From the docs:
-
-
Directory.Build.props is a user-defined file that provides customizations to projects under a directory. This
- file is automatically imported from Microsoft.Common.props unless the property ImportDirectoryBuildTargets is
- set to false.
-
-
What is not stated here is that only one Directory.Build.props will be imported automatically. Imagine your project
-exists in the directory C:\repo\src\foo\foo.csproj and there exists a file in both C:\repo\src\Directory.Build.props and
-C:\repo\Directory.Build.props then only C:\repo\src\Directory.Build.props will be automatically included when building
-C:\repo\src\foo\foo.csproj. If you would like C:\repo\Directory.Build.props to be included as well, then
-C:\repo\src\Directory.Build.props will have to include C:\repo\Directory.Build.props like so:
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diff --git a/blog/page9.html b/blog/page9.html
index 245939c..da67956 100644
--- a/blog/page9.html
+++ b/blog/page9.html
@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
MSBuild version 15 introduced the concept of "Directory.Build.props" files. From the docs:
+
+
Directory.Build.props is a user-defined file that provides customizations to projects under a directory. This
+ file is automatically imported from Microsoft.Common.props unless the property ImportDirectoryBuildTargets is
+ set to false.
+
+
What is not stated here is that only one Directory.Build.props will be imported automatically. Imagine your project
+exists in the directory C:\repo\src\foo\foo.csproj and there exists a file in both C:\repo\src\Directory.Build.props and
+C:\repo\Directory.Build.props then only C:\repo\src\Directory.Build.props will be automatically included when building
+C:\repo\src\foo\foo.csproj. If you would like C:\repo\Directory.Build.props to be included as well, then
+C:\repo\src\Directory.Build.props will have to include C:\repo\Directory.Build.props like so:
If you're looking for a poor man's solution to a templating engine for .net and don't really need
-the overhead a complete template engine brings with it, I've come up with the following solution.
I haven't written anything new here in a very long time and a lot has happened since then. I started a new job at
-BeumerGroup this year and now work mostly in TypeScript writing an html5 spa app.
-
In my spare time I've decided to working on version 2.0 of my Snowball,
-my 2D game framework. I've been playing around with the idea for a while now. This version will be developed directly
-for .net core and will be developed with cross platform capability in mind. The api will look similar but will have
-some changes.
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diff --git a/feed.rss b/feed.rss
index a6834b9..f261747 100644
--- a/feed.rss
+++ b/feed.rss
@@ -5,9 +5,22 @@
The Blog of Zachary SnowThe Blog of Zachary Snow
https://smack0007.github.io/
- Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT
- Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT
+ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT
+ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT1800
+
+ <![CDATA[Install Linux Mint Cinnamon Themes on Debian]]>
+ As a long time Windows user it probably is no surprise that I enjoy using the Cinnamon Desktop
+Environment. Although I have used and enjoyed using Linux Mint one goal I had when I started replacing Windows
+throughout my house was to be the same distribution on differnt machines. So I settled on installing Debian
+everywhere and customizing it to each systems individual needs.
+
I wanted to run Cinnamon on my Thinkpad Laptop and Debian can install
+it out of the box. The only problem is the defaykt theme leaves a lot to be deisred. Luckily the theme from Linux Mint
+can installed using a few commands from the terminal.
]]>
+ https://smack0007.github.io/blog/2024/linux-mint-cinnamon-theme-on-debian.html
+ https://smack0007.github.io/blog/2024/linux-mint-cinnamon-theme-on-debian.html
+ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT
+ <![CDATA[Goodbye Windows]]>I finally did it. All the computers in my house are now running debian except for the office PC. I've
@@ -249,13 +262,6 @@ based on the OS the script is running on.]]>https://smack0007.github.io/blog/2020/execute-different-commands-in-msbuild-depending-on-platform.htmlFri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT
-
- <![CDATA[Filter ItemGroup by extension in MSBuild]]>
- Just a quick snippet that shows how to filter an exiting ItemGroup by an extension.]]>
- https://smack0007.github.io/blog/2020/filter-itemgroup-by-extension-in-msbuild.html
- https://smack0007.github.io/blog/2020/filter-itemgroup-by-extension-in-msbuild.html
- Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT
-
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 6d14b30..4505b95 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
As a long time Windows user it probably is no surprise that I enjoy using the Cinnamon Desktop
+Environment. Although I have used and enjoyed using Linux Mint one goal I had when I started replacing Windows
+throughout my house was to be the same distribution on differnt machines. So I settled on installing Debian
+everywhere and customizing it to each systems individual needs.
+
I wanted to run Cinnamon on my Thinkpad Laptop and Debian can install
+it out of the box. The only problem is the defaykt theme leaves a lot to be deisred. Luckily the theme from Linux Mint
+can installed using a few commands from the terminal.
I finally did it. All the computers in my house are now running debian except for the office PC. I've
used Windows for at least 30 years but over the last few years it's become more and more user hostile. After the latest
Windows Recall push and the security implications surrounding it, I decided I could no longer
keep running Windows on all the machines in my house.
Just a quick tip for myself (and anyone who is reading this) for the future. To start syncthing in
@@ -48,6 +54,4 @@
presented often only deal with String enums.
For my work on SDL_ts
I really need a solution for Numeric enums
-as SDL is full of them.
I finally sat down and got my blog compiling with deno. Now that there
-is official npm support I didn't need to completely rewrite the compiler which was what was
-stopping me before.
As a long time Windows user it probably is no surprise that I enjoy using the Cinnamon Desktop
+Environment. Although I have used and enjoyed using Linux Mint one goal I had when I started replacing Windows
+throughout my house was to be the same distribution on differnt machines. So I settled on installing Debian
+everywhere and customizing it to each systems individual needs.
+
I wanted to run Cinnamon on my Thinkpad Laptop and Debian can install
+it out of the box. The only problem is the defaykt theme leaves a lot to be deisred. Luckily the theme from Linux Mint
+can installed using a few commands from the terminal.
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diff --git a/tags/debian/index.html b/tags/debian/index.html
index 87c9f76..e3333da 100644
--- a/tags/debian/index.html
+++ b/tags/debian/index.html
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-debian
As a long time Windows user it probably is no surprise that I enjoy using the Cinnamon Desktop
+Environment. Although I have used and enjoyed using Linux Mint one goal I had when I started replacing Windows
+throughout my house was to be the same distribution on differnt machines. So I settled on installing Debian
+everywhere and customizing it to each systems individual needs.
+
I wanted to run Cinnamon on my Thinkpad Laptop and Debian can install
+it out of the box. The only problem is the defaykt theme leaves a lot to be deisred. Luckily the theme from Linux Mint
+can installed using a few commands from the terminal.
I finally did it. All the computers in my house are now running debian except for the office PC. I've
used Windows for at least 30 years but over the last few years it's become more and more user hostile. After the latest
Windows Recall push and the security implications surrounding it, I decided I could no longer
keep running Windows on all the machines in my house.
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diff --git a/tags/index.html b/tags/index.html
index 655a457..2643950 100644
--- a/tags/index.html
+++ b/tags/index.html
@@ -1 +1 @@
-The Blog of Zachary Snow
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diff --git a/tags/linux-mint/index.html b/tags/linux-mint/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..49c47a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tags/linux-mint/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+linux-mint
As a long time Windows user it probably is no surprise that I enjoy using the Cinnamon Desktop
+Environment. Although I have used and enjoyed using Linux Mint one goal I had when I started replacing Windows
+throughout my house was to be the same distribution on differnt machines. So I settled on installing Debian
+everywhere and customizing it to each systems individual needs.
+
I wanted to run Cinnamon on my Thinkpad Laptop and Debian can install
+it out of the box. The only problem is the defaykt theme leaves a lot to be deisred. Luckily the theme from Linux Mint
+can installed using a few commands from the terminal.
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diff --git a/tags/linux/index.html b/tags/linux/index.html
index 24bdede..46cf75f 100644
--- a/tags/linux/index.html
+++ b/tags/linux/index.html
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-linux
As a long time Windows user it probably is no surprise that I enjoy using the Cinnamon Desktop
+Environment. Although I have used and enjoyed using Linux Mint one goal I had when I started replacing Windows
+throughout my house was to be the same distribution on differnt machines. So I settled on installing Debian
+everywhere and customizing it to each systems individual needs.
+
I wanted to run Cinnamon on my Thinkpad Laptop and Debian can install
+it out of the box. The only problem is the defaykt theme leaves a lot to be deisred. Luckily the theme from Linux Mint
+can installed using a few commands from the terminal.
I finally did it. All the computers in my house are now running debian except for the office PC. I've
used Windows for at least 30 years but over the last few years it's become more and more user hostile. After the latest
Windows Recall push and the security implications surrounding it, I decided I could no longer
keep running Windows on all the machines in my house.