Doodle started as a wish for doing something different. I always liked the concept of non-photorealistic rendering in games since Fear Effect was released for the Playstation. It was so fresh, so innovative… it felt so great to play something like that. My passion for photography in film-making translates directly to studying and experimenting different rendering techniques in game development. Since the early days of Doodle, i wanted to achieve a cartoon-ish look, as if the game was being drawn during gameplay. I ended up with lot’s of GLSL experiments on top of the Darkplaces engine, including a very nice post-processing shader inspired by Frank Miller’s “Sin City”. However, after reading the papers and looking at the examples of Alex… Keep reading »
I don’t know about other PHP developers, but i always envied Ruby developers for their cute string manipulation methods and fluent interfaces making their code extremely readable and, well, good-looking. Such envy inspired me to take action and develop something that allowed me to create more clear and readable code when manipulating strings. SimpleString is a small library for manipulating strings in a object-oriented way with PHP. SimpleString uses method overloading to create an object-oriented interface for the built-in string functions in PHP, getting rid of the prefix mess we all have to deal with. Also in the package, there’s a fluent interface and a couple of extra methods, very useful in the daily string manipulation tasks. By overloading the… Keep reading »
Well, well, well… i finally had the time to finish the new website design and porting my old code to this WordPress setup. Now you guys will have to put up with my terrible posts. Luckily, this blog will suffer from serious lack of attention from it’s owner, so you can rest assured that you won’t have to deal with any brain damage. For those who don’t know me, my name is Klaus Silveira and i’m a brazilian web developer. Nice to meet you! I have a passion for free software, technology and design. Most of my time i’m programming something and drinking coffee.
