Because technology should be the means, not the end.
Erase the false impressions from your mind by constantly saying to yourself, “I have it in my soul to keep out any evil, desire or any kind of disturbance—instead, seeing the true nature of things, I will give them only their due.” Always remember this power that nature gave you.
Marcus Aurelius
While quality code should be well-commented and easy to follow, sometimes you need other types of documentation to actually see the shape of a process. In this chapter, I flowchart the map creation process and find ways to improve the code.
In this chapter, we’re going back to the official list of requirements for our Roguelike and expanding them to cover the game from start to finish.
In this update, I’m ditching the monochrome map and adding some color graphics on the map with text drawing via the TextRenderer class.
It’s been a few years since the last report from the Rogue C# project and the dungeon retains its mysteries. Time to dust off the project notes and find what awaits discovery.
As part of my return to C#, I decided to review EntityFramework Core, the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) that makes it so much easier to pass data between your database and a .NET program. After wading through documentation, trying to put the basics together, I decided to do a short video on it as part…
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I got an e-mail yesterday from a client who wants to move on from the MySQL-based CiviCRM solution I found for them years ago and needs one more backup before they switch over. I figure this is going to require a bit of query writing on my part to actually extract the data they need…
It’s been too long I dived back into C# this past week by revisiting one of my old projects – the web log viewer that I used to review the server logs for my website. It had previously been done in the .NET Framework 4.something and I wanted a new version that would handle a…
Finding some Visuals In a previous post, I mentioned my new Facebook page where I’ve been posting quotes and other information about some of the more interesting selections from my reading list. One of the challenges on Facebook is to catch people’s attention as they’re scrolling through the feed and text alone generally doesn’t do…
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I logged on this morning to see news articles about the shuttering of the CIA World Factbook website. I’ll admit that I hadn’t personally used the site much but I’m still disappointed that it’s gone. This site, and the print edition, was an example of a government agency giving the information it had collected back…
After finishing my review of the Rogue C# series and uploading it to Amazon, I’ve been getting things in order and deciding what’s to come for 2026. Here are a few notes: Rogue C# I definitely need to finish this series. It’s a software project, not a Game of Thrones sequel. It’s actually more than…
