matt’s

»It’s not a laughing matter… if you type “Google” into google, you can break the internet.« (The IT Crowd)

I came across a funny side note in The Pragmatic Programmer:
In 1897, Indiana State Legislature House Bill No. 246 attempted to decree that henceforth PI should have the value of “3″. The Bill was tabled indefinitely at its second reading when a mathematics professor pointed out that their powers did not quite extend to passing [...]

I have released another publication, a short (German) review of the last Spieleentwicklertreff NRW (Game Developers Gathering North Rhine-Westphalia) which took place at the Mediadesignhochschule Düsseldorf. Have a look!

…to Wordpress 2.3.3.

I added a new book review on JBoss Seam – Simplicity and Power beyond Java EE.

I have added some little bugfixes to my serialization tutorial, methods XMLDeserializer::readNumberOfElements() and BinaryDeserializer::readParameter in particular.

Over the last four months, one of my fellow #gamedev.ger residents, Friedrich “rip” Hanisch, and his girlfriend Jana Reinhardt have created a beautiful Irrlicht-based multiplayer game prototype called Omerta - Schweigen ist Gold. I eagerly followed the development and I was stunned by the quality they achieved in all regards. Remember, two people, four months, [...]