tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98184452011-08-02T23:07:02.807+04:30This is my personal notepad. I will post my thoughts and everything that I find interesting.Mahdi Jeddihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10006851027173682898noreply@blogger.comBlogger291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818445.post-83736756729203538802010-08-13T20:06:00.001+04:302010-08-13T20:06:30.439+04:30

Mahdi Jeddihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10006851027173682898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818445.post-44444469090987452122008-04-18T04:22:00.006+04:302008-04-18T04:41:32.542+04:30

This is a comic strip I drew a while ago. I decided to upload it. Enjoy!Note: In adventure games be sure to grab everything that can be collected, or you’re screwed!

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 There is hell lot of controversy about document generation in software development. Some say it's needed for communication and some say it will only waste the programmers' time.I say that there is a minimal set of documentation every projects needs. These documents need to contain the reasons behind the choices that are made. There is always this problem in change process of the software (

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Yes… At last! I've build a new system for my home usage. It took me this long partly because I was very strict about the components. I wanted a Core 2 Duo CPU and a motherboard with nVidia chipset (680i). And I also wanted an nVidia VGA (8800GTS 640MB) and so on and so forth. In my country good computer parts are very hard to find so I've had a lot of headache and they cost me a lot more than

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It's the seventh month since I started learning aikido with my friend in a gym. We're practicing the aikikai style (http://www.aikikai.or.jp/eng/index.htm). I like it. Before that I didn't like Japanese martial arts (except iaido and kendo). But this one is deferent. We learn how to use the power of our opponent to beat him. And of course there wooden sword (bokken) and wooden staff (jo)

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I am a lazy man and this is especially true when it comes down to blogging. But maybe now Word 2007 makes it easier for me to blog. If so I'll blog more.So here's a test post. 

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You may wonder WTF was I doing all this time! Well, I was working on my biggest project ever. It’s a 3D role-playing game and I am its 3D programmer. I also programmed its combat logic and some of its tools (like level editor). I will post more info when our web site is up. When I was free, I was watching Japanese Anime. Then I decided to learn Japanese language (日本語) and I'm doing well. I think

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After several months of not-being-so-clear Microsoft announces more details about XNA. It “seems” that it’s a Unified Process for game development. It got the process, tools, even a programming framework that is based on .NET 2 and Managed DirectX.Wow man, I wish this isn’t a dream. At last Microsoft approved .NET Framework as a game development platform. People always talked about .NET

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I hate to argue with people about performance. It's a waste of time. For me it's a solved problem: First, I will implement the system with a good design so I can change it. Then, I will profile it to see if the performance is good. If not I can easily change it. There's also some other argument about managed code (Java/.NET) performance vs. Native code performance. There is an ACM article

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This site is my newest discovery. There, you can create a group that its members are distributed around the world. Every member can designate his/her place on the world map with a balloon that will contain some information about that member. You can put some text and your picture in there. It's fun to play with, and sure is a good new toy to waste some time. PS: I believe that the map is

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In description of my blog I said that I will write about things that is interesting to me; so lack of my posts may imply that there’s not an interesting thing in my life, or laziness. Well, the second one is correct. Forget about it. Lately, I was playing around with this awesome 3D engine. This is the first engine that I can understand and work with. It’s because its design is simple and its

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This is a long time since my last post. Maybe I'm loosing interest in blogging. Whatever it is, I found this great e-Magazine on the net. Check it out! It’s awesome. And you can download its issues as PDF. And check out this article that’s really amazing. That is I always thought and said. That’s the right shit man. I love you!

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I was visiting my favorite game development website, Gamasutra, and as always I found a great article there. In this article the author talks about a new approach in usability evaluation of computer games. They use “expert evaluation” and “usability testing”. Their method is mind bogglingly effective. I really encourage you to take a look at it if you are interested in software usability

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I had images, like I’m scarring my face insanely. I don’t know. I think this is because I committed a lot of sins. I believe committing a sin is like hurting your soul deliberately. And I do that uncontrollably, Insanely, Crazily. People don’t hurt themselves intentionally, but hurting soul is another thing for them. This is because they can’t see what they’re doing. They don’t see the outcome.

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I think a good teacher has a little deep knowledge not a lot of shallow ones. You can find a lot of knowledge inside books. But deep understanding of them may not be so easy to achieve. This deep understanding also has a lot of connection to other related subjects because you need to learn a lot of things to have a clear and deep understanding about things the matter. These connections show come

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See what I've found: Star Wars Force FX LightsabersAlthough the blade is not what I wanted (so I could feel it cut through flesh), but at least it glows and it even makes digitally recorded sounds like a real lightsaber. But I wonder how much time I should wait to see a real lightsaber. I hunger for a lightsaber battle (Wow!).

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This is what I learned: You need to think about ideas you don’t accept to improve. If you just reject things you believe is wrong, you won’t have the chance to correct your bad ideas. Just accept that everybody (including you) can have wrong thoughts and bad ideas that need to be fixed.

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It's been almost a week that I was playing Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II and I just finished it. But now I feel naked without a light saber. I feel I missed something. I need a dual-blade light saber, no matter what color, just a light saber. If you know how I can find one, or build one, please contact me! By the way I want to talk about the game itself. It was the second best RPG

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It’s some time that I’m working on chat bots as my AI project. It’s real fun. I always wondered how they make that kind of stuff. I always thought that they use some sophisticated algorithms and god knows what for these things. But now, I see that it’s just so easy. They use some markup language for this that they call AIML. With it, you just say what the bot should say if the user enters some

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Because of the lack of post lately, I present you these funny sentences that I found: There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.—thinkgeek.com Programming is like sex, make one mistake and you have to support it for a long time.—codeproject.com Message boards Another definition of programming is: “the most fun you can have with

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During this semester’s exams I learned a new lesson (or maybe just remembered it): There is always hope. I was preparing to flunk out. I did a moderately good (!) job in previous semester but I didn’t feel good about the way I took exams. I the passing weeks I did some projects and extra work (!) to make my grades. And now after two weeks in new semester I’ve been informed that I passed all of

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Sometimes ago I read some pages of this book and I find it a treasure. In this book’s prologue the writer wants to show the importance and effect of the emotion in the way humans think, make decisions, and choose, and why we should consider it in our designs. Also in his book, Chris Crawford points out that the low level API of human beings is the emotion. If you want to design a masterpiece

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From time to time this question arise for me that “What is my criteria for evaluating computer games?” What makes me so passionate about a game? The first think that I consider about a game is its emotional side. I mean how it’s look and feel, its story and so on. If the game fails in this phase, I will throw it away. If succeeds, I shall consider its gameplay and other technical issues.

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Recently, I had a presentation about Managed DirectX. I knew that people that I was supposed to speak for them have no background on this matter; ergo I organized my notes to be comprehensible for them. During the process I realized that I’m learning new thing and finding answer for some of my own questions about DirectX. After some thought on this happening I ended up with this: If you

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It’s a long time since my last post, because it was exam time. But now I’m free to post. For starters here is some of my brother’s works: He wanted to be a “3D Artist” – and I wanted one. So I offered him Maya. I didn’t believe in him but he surprised me. He doesn’t use even primitive 3D techniques such as extruding but he creates mind boggling images. So here’s my mission to teach him what I’

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He peered through the shimmering light of the torch… searching. Suddenly he felt a presence. Turning back in haste, he found himself in front of a hideous monster. The adventurer seemed pretty calm. After all, if he wanted to be safe he didn’t bother to set out. “This behemoth is way bolder than I thought,” could he say? The battle ensued.

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It’s some time now that I’m working on my website, and I was playing with FrontPage for the first time. I always believed DreamWeaver MX is the best, but now that I’m working with FrontPage I see that it is way too easier to work with.In this adventure I’ve got some experience that I want to share:Never use absolute paths. Always type the relative path for images or other stuff. This way you can

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“Why did you start this blog?” you may ask. I have wanted to start a web log for some time. When I opened blogger.com it said the best way to learn blogging is to try it out. Then I said to myself “let’s check it out, it won’t hurt.” Now that I started, I can’t give it up. It’s addictive. I really enjoy writing. When you write you must think about what you want to write about. This is some

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Yay! Hello everybody. This is my first post to this blog, so I'm gonna talk about myself. Well, I am a computer engineering student in IUST. I study computer programming since my 14 because I love computer games and I hope someday I can call myself a game developer (Title of this blog may indicate this if you has played StarCraft.) I really enjoyed reading Chris Crawford on Game

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