Nietzsche

All Nietzsche books online ... wow ...

http://www.holtof.com/library/nietzsche/ns/select.htm

Now that we are at it ... lets quote something from the man :
"The herd instinct, then--a power that has now become sovereign--is something totally different from the instinct of an aristocratic society: and the value of the units determines the significance of the sum.--Our entire sociology simply does not know any other instinct than that of the herd, i.e., that of the sum of zeroes--where every zero has "equal rights," where it is virtuous to be zero.-"

...hmm.... democracy !???

Refactoring

It has been a few days that I have looked back at the topic of rafactoring and it has kept me thinking. Well first of all Martin Fowler's Refactoring book is great.
I've been thinking about the range that refactoring can be applied ... whether there can be any limits to code refactoring ... how will the most refactored code look like after several refactoring rules performed on it ... how well can this be done automatically ... and so on.

This has been something that has been happening constantly and is happening for the game project.

Siavoshgard

The city, is going to be called Siavoshgard .... doomed and ruled by the ferocious Deev Akumanah ... the here would have to find his way through this city .... hoping to reach the castle and somehow in ....

Pressure...

Nice word in a movie that I don't remember right now about being in pressure ... the guys said something like this : ".... the more I get squeezed, the more I focus ...."

This seems to be a nice sentence to remember every once in a while ...

hmm...

Deals ...

If only people would deal with one another the way they used to do in ancient Iran...

A lot of problems arise from breaking the promises and not doing what you tell others you'll do. This simple fact is causing problems in different layers of society ... from small friend circles to the systems of society...

This is a wonderful article written by Shervin Vakili about the idea and how it used to be in the old days (Farsi Article):

Article Link

We need to be like that one more time ...

How to teach programming...

Well this has been a big question for so many people and I've had many discussions with friends about how programming should be taught at many different levels.

Finally I found an academic study about this topic here:

http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf

Meetings ...

It is interesting how formal meetings with a client usually has very little efficiency. I think some drastic changes are needed in the way meetings are done. Big time can be saved in that case.

OGRE

OGRE - Object Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine is the rendering engine that we are planning to use for the upcoming game project.

Other than having excellent architecture and being very lean for graphics, it has got an excellent community, which I think is one of the most important factors in choosing an open source solution. We've had some bad experiences in this area before.

The main website is : http://www.ogre3d.org/

Ohloh.net has analyzed the code base and suggested that it would take 89 Person Years for OGRE to be developed, 336000 lines of code. Hmm.. this would mean we should already be on the shoulder of a giant.

Fighter

There is a question and answer session with the author of the book "Jangjoo" today, should be lots of fun since the book is wonderful, what is it about? Well a fictitious story somehow related to everything in life and the basic questions that exist for most people.

Almost half of the book can be read online here : http://soshians.net/shownews.asp?103 but the full book is definitely recommended, I can get you a copy.

Basketball..

It was a good basketball this morning... great weather... nice air close to the mountains in Velenjak... a little one on one with Fariborz, just like 19 years ago in our yard ... still as fun as it was ...

The first post...

OK so I guess this is going to be the first post... and I would probably be writing about everything and anything from now on...