In my previous post [https://doyleyoung.net/beaglebone-black/], I introduced the hardware for my new Quake 3 server. I evaluated multiple Quake 3 projects that could be used for both the client and the server. Ultimately, I decided to use the ioquake3 [http://ioquake3.org/] open source version for both client and server. After some testing with various numbers of bot and...
I purchased a BeagleBone Black Rev C [http://beagleboard.org/black] with the intention of turning it into a portable Quake 3 server. I also picked up a simple case [https://www.adafruit.com/products/1555] and a power supply [https://www.adafruit.com/products/276] from adafruit [https://www.adafruit.com/] who had everything I wanted in stock. Plus the entire...
I attended my first, and definitely not last, Yet Another Perl Conference [http://www.yapcna.org/yn2014/] last week. I have been interested in attending this particular conference for a very long time. The problem was I never had an employer who would take care of the bill and I use vacation as a time to not think about computers at all....
I have been experimenting with Spring Boot [http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/] the last couple days and I made a very small extension to my first test [https://doyleyoung.net/spring-boot/] of the framework. After reading a getting started guide [https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/] I discovered something else amazing about this project. I added the following class to my test...
A few days ago a friend sent me a link to Spring Boot [http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/]. I have used Spring for a large number of projects over the years and the description of Spring Boot seemed to indicate it could remove a number of my biggest peeves. When I first used Spring I did not like the odd combination of...