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National Novel Writing Month begins

National Novel Writing Month begins November 1st. [from EvHead]

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Popimage interview with Ann Nocenti

Popimage interview with Ann Nocenti (former comics writer).

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An Interview with Alan Moore:

An Interview with Alan Moore: The first, dealing with the movie “From Hell” appears on MSNBC, the second, about his life and comics writing, appears on Comic Book Resources.

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Department of Geek Stuff I

Department of Geek Stuff

I found a very nice MinGW IDE last week, called Dev C++, made by a French guy who uses the peculiar name “Bloodshed Software”.

OK, so it doesn’t have a graphic resource editor, or a code browser, or any of the really cool features that take a C++ IDE beyond being a good text editor, but it does let you skip the hassle of writing makefiles and just execute the stuff. And it has both the Windows API and C++ Standards support. I can always use the cool resource editor that comes with lcc-win32, and Doxygen‘s deocumentation and class graphs, if I ever get to do some real C++ project (and not just install compilers and play around with them).

Anyway, there’s a nice tutorial on using Dev-C++, aimed at programming class students, and since they’re all apparently still cribbing homework from the same sort of classes I took, back in 1996-1997, using Borland C++, he’s put in a link to an emulation library of the old Borland DOS Graphics API, which uses Windows. This library is called WinBGIm, and includes Documentation.

So, let’s see if I can use it to port my old course project

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What really happened to the

What really happened to the Mary Celeste? from the Straight Dope, via Yossi G.