It was time to implement some animations in our game “Burnt Islands“. The task was to add a catapult that was going to throw stones at enemies from the distance. A catapult needs to rotate towards the goal and to throw stones in the right direction. The whole thing without animation would look really weird.
To see compile times in Microsoft Visual Studio we need to change visual studio build output verbosity and visual studio build log verbosity settings.
In this short post I will show you how to easily turn a photo into a seamlessly tiled texture with just three clicks. I will be using GIMP that is a free and open source software for image editing.
Recently I needed to fix a bug where a mx:TextArea was always dirty. The reason was a text with line breaks like:
Controllers in Spring MVC are designed to be shared between requests. Each controller has a default singleton scope so if you are using controllers you need to be aware of that. The easiest way to make sure your controller is thread-safe is to avoid class variables. F.ex. this example from Spring MVC tutorial:
Here is a very useful java conversion table that I’ve created while preparing for the Certified SE Java Programmer exam.
